Moldenhauer Archives

Washington, Italy

The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress is a collection of original music, unique documents and manuscripts within the Library of Congress, the national library of the United States. While it contains many thousands of unique original documents of historical significance, it is only a po

rtion of the original Modenhauer Archive that was located in Spokane, Washington and founded and collected by musicologist Hans Moldenhauer. Moldenhauer bequeathed his archive upon his death in 1987 to several libraries internationally with the largest portion being donated to the library at Northwestern University which is considerably larger than the collection at the Library of Congress. Other institutions to receive parts of the collection included the Houghton Library at Harvard University, the Austrian National Library in Vienna, and the Bavarian State Library in Munich among many others. Moldenhauer's very large collection of original manuscripts by Anton Webern, considered to be the most important holding, are now in the Paul-Sacher-Stiftung Library in Basel, Switzerland.

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