PITTSBURGH MUSIC - ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

GEORGE WILSON (1854-1908)

Contents

• Music criticism
• personal correspondence (opera related)
• scrapbook containing letters (1906-1907) to and from Wilson dealing entirely with Wilson’s feud with Emil Paur, conductor of the Pittsburgh Orchestra.

Time period  1885 - 1907

Subject

Wilson came to Pittsburgh in 1895 to serve as manager for the newly opened Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, as well as for the Pittsburgh Orchestra housed there. He was also manager for the Art Society of Pittsburgh.

Location

Oliver Room, Pittsburgh Music Archive #37

• Baynham, Edward G. A History of Pittsburgh Music, 1758-1958 - rqML200.8 .P6 B39 1970x
• Wolfe, Richard J. A Short History of the Pittsburgh Orchestra, 1896-1910 - rqML1211.8 .P52 P59 1949x
• Pittsburgh Music Information File
• Link to author entry in online catalog - Wilson G H George Henry 1854 1908
• Uncatalogued scrapbooks in the Oliver Room
• Archival material of his wife, Kate DeN. Wilson

FINDING LIST

Folder I
   Music Criticism, vol. 2, July 1885 - one year (primarily from Boston newspapers)

Folder II
  Music Criticism, vol. 5, 1890-1897 (Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh)

Folder III

Personal record, vol. 4 1891-1893 (World’s Fair, Paris). Wilson was Chief of the Bureau of Music and Drama of the World’s Fair Columbian Exhibition 1891-1893. Includes letter from Th. Thomas, translations (?) of letters from Joseph Joachim and Johannes Brahms. Names in obituaries (March 1908)

Folder IV

Personal correspondence, December 26, 1896 - January 31, 1900. Opera related - severe fading; copies of outgoing letters on India paper.

Folder V
  Personal February 1, 1900 - April, 3, 1903. Some fading; same content as Folder IV.

Folder VI
   Personal May 5, 1903 - May 17, 1906

Folder VII

Scrapbook 1906-1907. Letters to and from Wilson and newspaper clippings, dealing entirely with Wilson/Emil Paur feud.