Morton Feldman Collections in the Music Library, University at Buffalo

The Music Library of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York possesses a substantial amount of material related to the life and career of Morton Feldman (on the faculty at the University 1972-1987). Researchers should be aware that the main collection of Feldman's estate, including his musical manuscripts, reside at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland.

Online access to inventories of this material is provided through the following links:

• Finding aid for the Morton Feldman Papers, 1950-1999.
  Collection Number: Mus. Arc. 2.1.
  16 boxes of chiefly secondary sources, including articles by and about Feldman, programs, clippings, and photographs. Also contains correspondence, principally to Feldman, mostly about career-related events and issues.

• Finding Aid for C. F. Peters Collection of Morton Feldman Manuscripts, 1961-1969.
  Collection Number: Mus. Arc. 2.4.
  The collection consists of 79 works by Morton Feldman in either score or part formats (72 scores; 7 sets of parts). All but one item are ink manuscripts on vellum. These served as the masters that Feldman submitted to C. F. Peters and Peters published directly from these masters. Almost all of the manuscripts are in Morton Feldman's hand, except for two scores copied by John Cage and three items in the hand of a music copyist.

• Inventory of the Cassette Tapes located in the Morton Feldman Archive.
  Fifty recordings originally in Feldman's personal collection; transferred to cassettes.

• Finding Aid for Morton Feldman Images by Jan Williams, 1974-1979
  Collection Number: Mus. Arc. 2.3
  The collection of Morton Feldman Images by Jan Williams contains 56 slides taken during concert tours made by Feldman and Williams in 1974, 1977, and 1979. The tours were part of the activities of the Creative Associates and the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Locations of the images include Paris, London, Edinburgh, Lisbon, Barcelona, Perugia, Karlsrühe, Dartington and Harrogate, England, Hilversum, Shiraz, Iran, Padua, and Venice. Other musicians in the images include Lejaren Hiller, Eberhard Blum, Martha Herr Hanneman, Nils Vigeland, Dennis Kahle, David Gibson, Julius Eastman, Ralph Jones, Peter Gena, Jan Williams, Benjamin Hudson, Bunita Marcus, and Renée Levine, director of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts.
  Photographs in the collection are available in digital form in UBdigit.

• Morton Feldman images.
  An online display of digitized images of Morton Feldman from various collections in the Music Library.

• Morton Feldman Lectures.
  Summaries of seven lectures and/or post-concert discussions by Morton Feldman in the Slee Lecture Recital Series at the University, 1972-1975. Transcriptions for three of the lectures are included.

Feb. 2005 Music Library Staff musique@acsu.buffalo.edu http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/music/feldman/index.html