Harold Spivacke, Chief of the Music Division (1937-1972). Poulenc agreed to Spivacke’s proposed terms of $750 and the gift of the original manuscript to the Library of Congress provided that he could reserve the premiere for the Strasbourg Music Festival in June 1957. The next month, Spivacke again offered the commission, suggesting a sonata for flute and piano, dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Poulenc declined the commission on the grounds that he was just finishing the orchestration of his opera Dialogues of the Carmelites and that the premiere in Milan was too close. Although Spivacke proposed a piece for two pianos, he left Poulenc the option of a different sort of work providing it did not exceed six instruments. What’s truly amazing is that the Sonata was commissioned by the Library of Congress through a grant from the Coolidge Foundation! In 1956, Harold Spivacke, Chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress acting as spokesperson for the Coolidge Foundation, wrote to Poulenc offering a commission for a piece of chamber music for a festival to take place that same year. The preface contains a wealth of information, including correspondence between Poulenc and those involved with the genesis of the work. One such work we’ve acquired is the 1994 edition of French composer Francis Poulenc’s Sonata for Flute and Piano, edited by Carl Schmidt and thoroughly annotated with a detailed history and comprehensive commentary of the editorial process. What has made these acquisitions so special is the fact that the transcriptions are derived from newly revised editions of music. Our latest round of new scores was recently made available to us from the National Library for the Disabled in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Javascript is required to submit files.Many of the Music Section’s most recent braille music acquisitions have come to us from libraries all over the world via the Marrakesh Treaty. Public Domain - Non-PD Canada, Non-PD US, Non-PD EU
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