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Special Collections: Louis Victor Saar

Contents

• Biographical Sketch
• Finding list of the Louis Victor Saar Archive
• List of manuscripts
• Holdings of Louis Victor Saar in the Gaylord Music Library
• Holdings of Louis Victor Saar in the Gaylord Music Library Supplementary Music Catalog

Biographical Sketch

Louis Victor Saar was born on Dec. 10, 1868 in Rotterdam, Holland. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, Munich in 1889 where he studied with Rheinberger and Bussmeyer. He then continued his studies in Vienna, Leipzig, and Berlin, including one winter with Brahms. From 1893-96, he was the accompanist for the Metropolitan Opera Company. Antonín Dvorák hired Saar to teach harmony and counterpoint at the National Conservatory from 1896-98. Saar also taught at the N.Y. College of Music, Institute of Musical Art of N.Y. from 1898-1906; Cincinnati College of Music from 1906-17; and at the Chicago Musical College from 1917-34. In 1934 he moved to St. Louis to join the faculty of the St. Louis Institute of Music where he remained until his death on November 23, 1937.

Finding list of the Louis Victor Saar Archive

(prepared 6/6/96)

Box 1 : Series I - VII
Box 2 : Series VIII

Series I: Photographs

1. (Envelope) 3 photos of Saar with "The Harmony Class 1913-1914" taken Thursday May 14, 1914

Series II: Notes

1. (Envelope) Various notes, including what may be lists of memberships

Series III: Works

1. (Folder) Choral works; 4 of his own and 1 Mendelssohn

Series IV: Programs and Brochures

1. (Envelope) Programs and brochures for Saar or that include Saar compositions

Series V: Articles

1. (Envelope)
   • Notices of concerts, concert reviews
   • Saar's professional and personal activities

Series VI: Correspondence

1. (Envelope) Correspondence to Louis Saar, including letters from John Gibbon from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company concerning Saar's work on a song cycle possibly entitled "Four Seasons; A Canadian Song Cycle"

Series VII: Publications

1. (Envelope)
   • Music News - June 19, 1931
   • Music and Musicians - July 1920

Series VIII: Miscellaneous Saar Material

1. (Envelope)
   • Final Examinations, 1924 from Chicago Music College
   • Exercise book on harmony, intervals, etc..
2. Bound volume of the Art Publication Society's Progressive Series of Music Lessons Lesson no. 1-72, owned by Saar (signed and dated by Saar April 1919, with some annotations)
3. Bound volume of the Art Publication Society's Progressive Series of Music Lessons Lesson no. 73-144, owned by Saar (signed and dated by Saar February 1919)

List of manuscripts

Note: Manuscript titles are transcribed from the items themselves and are not necessarily consistent throughout the list.

• Never star was in the sky [voice and piano]
• "Roccoco" Suite [orchestra]
• When you are near [voice and piano]