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Marvin Duchow Music Library Hellmuth Wolff Organ Collection Series
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Photographs

The photographs in this series cover the several stages of the organ-building process. This series includes both colour and black-and-white images of the construction of a given organ at Wolff’s atelier, the installation of the organ, as well as concerts, dedications, and social events at or around the time of the organ’s installation.

Organ Inventories

This series contains French language reports prepared by the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec, Direction régionale de Montréal, Direction du Patrimoine, by various authors. Each report is typescript and contains black and white photographs.

Book Collection

This series contains print copies of published monographs of various languages. The works are lists in the bibliography in Appendix 3: Book Collection Bibliography.

Organ Plans

This series includes large-scale drawings, preliminary sketches, and general plans of various parts of the organ, such as the buffet, console, keyboards, and windchest. This series is divided into three subseries: organs with opus number; organs without opus number, which includes Wolff’s plans for proposed but ultimately not-constructed organs; and finally plans by other organ builders or Wolff’s drawings based on historical treatises and documents.

Negatives

The photographic negatives are divided into three subseries: Wolff organs with opus number, Wolff organs without opus number, and non-Wolff organs.

Correspondence

This series contains Hellmuth Wolff’s correspondence files. Subseries i contains correspondence between Wolff and various organ builders in English, French and German, primarily related to Wolff’s editorial work for the for the International Society of Organbuilders’ ISO Yearbook 1993, which spanned four years from 1992-1996. Subseries ii contains workshop documents, including opus lists.

Periodical Collection (Journals & Conference Proceedings)

This series contains the print copies of journals and conference proceedings in Hellmuth Wolff’s library. There are some annotations on several of the issues. The works are listed in two separate bibliographies in Appendix 1: Periodicals/Journals Bibliography and Appendix 2: Conference Publications Bibliography.

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