{"id":548,"date":"2016-12-01T04:53:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T04:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/?page_id=548"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:08:23","slug":"szigeti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/about\/collections\/specialcollections\/collections_descriptions\/szigeti\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Szigeti"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>Personal library of Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti (1892-1973, purchased from Szigeti at the suggestion of Professor Paul Rolland of the School of Music. Szigeti was a student of Jen\u0151 Hubay and Joseph Joachim and had an international performance and recording career.\u00a0He championed new music works by Bartok, Berg, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky and was the dedicatee of many works by contemporary composers. Pieces written for him include Ernest Bloch&#8217;s Violin Concerto, Bart\u00f3k&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Rhapsody No. 1<\/em>, and\u00a0Eug\u00e8ne Ysa\u00ffe&#8217;s\u00a0Solo Sonata No. 1.\u00a0Ferrucio Busoni served as his friend and mentor.<\/p>\n<p>The Music Library received about 215 music editions and over 200 albums of 78 rpm records in 1960. This purchase was supplemented in 1967 by an additional 234 music editions and a collection of 51 manuscripts. Violin music predominates among printed music editions as well as recordings, but the collection also includes a few editions of piano music and nine songs by the Norwegian composer Sigurd Lie, among other materials. While there are relatively few bowings, fingerings, or other performance annotations in the violin music, many editions bear personal inscriptions to Szigeti from composers.<\/p>\n<h2>Location \/Access<\/h2>\n<h3>Music and Performing Arts Library<\/h3>\n<div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" >\n<ul>\n<li>Within the document boxes at call number <strong><em>Special Collections M5.S95<\/em><\/strong>, performing editions are arranged alphabetically by composer\/title within several categories (violin music, piano music, etc.) The remainder of Szigeti\u2019s library of performing editions has been dispersed within cataloged holdings in MPAL\u2019s circulating collection or in Special Collections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Index terms<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" >\n<ul>\n<li>Manuscripts<\/li>\n<li>Violin music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description Personal library of Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti (1892-1973, purchased from Szigeti at the suggestion of Professor Paul Rolland of the School of Music. Szigeti was a student of Jen\u0151 Hubay and Joseph Joachim and had an international performance and recording career.\u00a0He championed new music works by Bartok, Berg, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky and was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-548","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5341,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/548\/revisions\/5341"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}