Collection contains Fidelis Zitterbart's manuscript compositions for many different musical genres. Zitterbart was an active music teacher, performer, and composer from the 1860s through his death in 1915. He was also a member of the New York Theatre orchestra, first violinist with the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, concertmaster of the Strakosch Opera orchestra, and a member of the Brooklyn and New York Philharmonic societies.
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Fidelis Zitterbart manuscripts, 1868-1915
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The collection contains approximately 1,500 music compositions, all in Fidelis Zitterbart's hand. Many of the scores feature Zitterbart's personal calligraphy in the noting of titles, often with pasted-over images that were evocative of the music's meaning to the composer. The scores are notated in both blue and black ink and sometimes in pencil, on standard 14-stave lined sheets in upright format, or in oblong format. Emendations by the composer appear in ink and/or pencil. The paper, produced in the late nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries is acidic, often brittle. The collection has been digitized to allow for greater access to researchers as well as to limit the need to access the fragile original materials. Few, if any of the works in the collection were ever commercially published. In processing this collection, we respected the original order in which the manuscripts were received. However, whenever a work is in a particular musical genre (suites, sonatas, duos, quartets, etc.) and is also numbered by the composer, we rearranged these items to bring them together for ease of discoverability., The following musical genres may be found in the box ranges listed: 1. Concertos (Violin): Box 32; 2. Duets (Strings and Winds) Box 4-6; 3. Etudes (Piano): Box 34-35; 4. Nocturnes (Piano): Box 37; 5. Quartets (Piano and Strings): Box 13-16; 6. Quartets (Strings): Box 16-22; 7. Quintets (Strings): Box 23-24; 8. Quintets (Piano and Strings): Box 24-26; 9. Sonatas (Piano): Box 36; 10. Sonatas (One String Instrument and Piano): Box 27-30; 11. Suites (Piano): Box 1; 12. Suites (One or more instruments and piano): Box 2-3; 13. Trios (Various Instrumental Combinations): Box 6-13; 14. Waltzes (Piano): Box 33., Processing Information: This collection was processed by Jim Cassaro, Sam Siskind, William Daw, Lisa Campbell, and Sarah Jones during 2012-2015., Fidelis Zitterbart Manuscripts, 1868-1915, SC.1967.02, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh, Digital reproductions of the collection are available online., Gift; Ralph Zitterbart; 196005., Fidelis Zitterbart was an active music teacher, performer, and composer from the 1860s through his death in 1915. He was also a member of the New York Theatre orchestra, first violinist with the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, concertmaster of the Strakosch Opera orchestra, and a member of the Brooklyn and New York Philharmonic societies., The material in this collection is in English and German., Finding aid Available in repository and on Internet; Folder level control; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-SC196702
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