Archives Catalogue

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 10, Item 2
Item
June 21, 1948

Item is a piano score, originally dedicated to Rudolf Firkusny, but this dedications has been crossed out with blue pencil crayon.

Andantino

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 10, Item 1
Item
June 19-22, 1948

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Csárdás no. 2

MS-5-2, Box 7, Folder 1
Item
1909

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a copy of Joseffy's composition, dedicated to his friend Moriz Rosenthal, and inscribed to Ellen Ballon. File includes a copy of handwritten piano scale exercises, presumably by Joseffy for Ballon.

Joseffy, Rafael

Dark hills

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 28, Item 3
Item
1946

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains a composition for piano inspired by Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem "The Dark Hills."

Etude de concert, Op. 1, no. 1

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 7
Item
1910

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is an autographed copy of Rafael Joseffy's edition of Paul de Schlözer's etude. It was published by G. Schirmer of New York as part of a "Studies for Concert Use for Piano Solo" series.

Joseffy, Rafael

In the forest : four piano compositions, Op. 12

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 6
File
1909

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains copies of each of the four compositions: "Titania's Waltz"'; "Weeping Willows"; "In the Rushes"; and "Soughing Pines." The work was dedicated to Paolo Gallico (1868–1955). Each piece bears an inscription to Ellen Ballon, Goldmark's student in 1909. The pieces were published by the Oliver Ditson Company in Boston in 1908.

Goldmark, Rubin

In the rushes, Op. 12, no. 3

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 6, Item 3
Item
1908

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains the third piece in Rubin Goldmark's composition "In the Forest: Four Piano Compositions." This piece is dedicated to Paolo Gallico.

La paimpolaise : chanson du pêcheurs d'Islande

MS-5-2, Box 7, Folder 5
Item
1895

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a vocal score with the melody and lyrics for "La Paimpolaise" by the French singer-songwriter Théodore Botrel (1868-1925). The score and lyrics were handwritten by L. Coyteux Preouèl(?) in Ottawa on April 29, 1908.

Botrel, Théodore

Märchen (Ritterzug), Op. 14, no. 2

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 9
Item
1905-1907

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a copy of the second tale in Medtner's Two Tales, Op. 14, for piano. It was published by P. Jurgenson and distributed in Leipzig by Robert Forberg in 1907 and includes an inscription to Ellen Ballon from Alfred La Liberté.

Medtner, Nikolay

Passacaglia : piano solo

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 36
Item
1961

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File includes a copy of Duchow's piano composition, accompanied by a note to Ellen Ballon from [Guanni?].

Duchow, Marvin

Piano suite

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 11
File
[1941]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a copy of a manuscript for Alexander Brott's piano suite, which includes "Sacrilege," "Remorse," and "Conviction."

Brott, Alexander

Quill dance : after an olden-time folk-song for quills

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 33
Item
1921

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a piano composition by Eugen Putnam, autographed by the composer.

Putnam, Eugen

Sea rhapsody

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 28, Item 1
Item
1946

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains a composition for piano inspired by Walt Whitman's poem, "Songs for All Seas, All Ships."

Soughing pines, Op. 12, no. 4

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 6, Item 4
Item
1908

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains the fourth piece in Rubin Goldmark's composition "In the Forest: Four Piano Compositions." This piece is dedicated to Paolo Gallico.

The fountain

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 28, Item 2
Item
1934

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

The star spangled banner : piano version

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 29
Item
1953

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a piano arrangement of the American national anthem, inscribed to Ellen Ballon by Josef Hofmann in 1953.

Hofmann, Josef

The willows are new (after Wang Wei's Yang Kuan) : piano solo

MS-5-2, Box 7, Folder 7
Item
1957

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a photostat copy of Chou Wen-Chung's composition, based on "Yang Kuan," a composition for ch'in attributed to Wang Wei (689-759). The work for solo piano was sent to Ellen Ballon by the New York publishers, C.F. Peters, with an accompanying letter that indicated that the composition was undergoing publication.

Chou Wen-Chung

Two compositions for the pianoforte, Op. 10

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 4
File
1906

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains two pieces by Sydney C. Dalton: "Yearning" (dedicated to Cecil) and "Valse Arabesque." They were published by Arthur P. Schmidt in 1906.

Dalton, Sydney C.

Two piano pieces

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 10
File
1948

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains copies of the manuscripts for two untitled pieces by George Barati (born Gyorgy Braunstein), written at the MacDowell Colony between June 19 and June 22, 1948. The first composition is dedicated to his wife, Ruth.

Barati, George

Valse Arabesque, Op. 10, no. 2