Collection Information
Collection
Gabriel Magyar donation of Dvorak, Mandel-Merel, and Amely Heller items
Location
Music and Performing Arts Library Special Collections, Collections File folder (“Magyar, Gabriel”), and Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Provenance
Gift of Gabriel Magyar, retired faculty member of the School of Music
When acquired
1981
Description
Prof. Magyar donated a piano-vocal score of A. Dvorak’s Stabat Mater (see below), which includes a dedication in Dvorak’s hand to his friend, J. Mandel-Merei. Magyar received this score from Mandel-Merei’s daughter, Sarolta Merei, who had been studying music at the Royal Hungarian Franz Liszt Conservatory at the same time as Prof. Magyar. Along with the score, Magyar submitted a photograph of J. Mandel-Merei, an autographed portrait of the violinist Amely Heller, and a copy of Heller’s book, H.W. Ernst: Im Urteile seiner Zeitgenossen (see below), along with several letters and a clipping from the period 1905-7.
Access
Magyar’s collection of Mandel-Merei materials can be found in Series 1, Box 1, Folder 11 of the Music and Performing Arts Library Small Special Collections, 1911-1981 Finding Aid. The Stabat Mater score with Dvorak’s signature can be found in Series 1, Box 5.
See also the Gabriel Magyar Papers 1953-2010 Finding Aid and the Music and Performing Arts Library Small Special Collections, 1911-1981 Finding Aid in the Sousa Archives and Center for American Archives.
Catalog record: Dvorak, Stabat Mater (Berlin: Simrock, 1881) [ M2079.L82 D86S72]
See Also
Heller, Amely. H. W. Ernst im Urteile seiner Zeitgenossen. 3. Aufl. (Wien: Author, 1905)
Letters are filed in Collections File folder (“Magyar, Gabriel”) along with a formal evaluation by D. W. Krummel and correspondence between Magyar and Music Librarian William McClellan
Index terms
Dvorak, Antonin; Heller, Amely; Magyar, Gabriel; Mandel-Merei, J.; PhotographsSpecial Collections: Dvorak, Stabat Mater