Vilem Sokol papers, approximately 1947-1997
Table of Contents
- Overview of the Collection
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Biographical Note
- Content Description
- Use of the Collection
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Detailed Description of the Collection
- Donor Created Inventory
- Music Scores, Composers A-Ber, 1947-1986
- Music Scores, Composers Berl-Bern
- Music Scores, Composers Bl-Br, 1995
- Music Scores, Composers Br, 1971
- Music Scores, Composers Ca-Cr, 1947-1995
- Music Scores, Composers De-En, 1976
- Music Scores, Composers En-Han
- Music Scores, Composers Holv-Hov, 1958-1969
- Music Scores, Composers Hu-Mah, 1979-1997
- Music Scores, Composers Ko-Mu, 1972
- Music Scores, Composer Rachmaninoff, 1971-1992
- Music Scores, Composer Rachmaninoff
- Music Scores, Composers Ra-Re, 1975
- Music Scores, Composers Sc-Sh
- Music Scores, Composers Si-St, 1947-1987
- Music Scores, Composer Stravinsky, 1962
- Music Scores, Composer Tschaikovsky
- Music Scores, Composer Tschaikovsky
- Music Scores, Composers Ve-Wa
- Names and Subjects
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Sokol, Vilem, 1915-2011
- Title
- Vilem Sokol papers
- Dates
- approximately 1947-1997 (inclusive)1947-19971947-1997
- Quantity
- 2.66 cubic ft. (5 boxes)
- Collection Number
- 6417 (Accession No. 6417-001)
- Summary
- Annotated music scores of a University of Washington School of Music professor
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Open to all users.
- Languages
- English
Biographical Note
Vilem Sokol (May 22, 1915-August 19, 2011) was a Czech-American conductor and professor of music at the University of Washington from 1948 to 1985, where he taught violin, viola, conducting, as well as music appreciation classes directed primarily toward non-music majors. He was conductor of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras from 1960 to 1988, and principal violist of the Seattle Symphony from 1959 to 1963; raised in Ambridge, Pennsylvania; died in Seattle, Washington.
Content Description
Music scores by 56 different composers with Sokol's annotations used during his time as a professor at the University of Washington, as a conductor for the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras, and principal violist of the Seattle Symphony. Folder level dates indicate performance dates noted on scores by Sokol, not the dates scores were originally published.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
Status of creator's copyrights is unknown; restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Users are responsible for researching copyright status before use.
Administrative Information
Return to TopDetailed Description of the Collection
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Description: Donor Created Inventory
Contains multiple copies of a donor created inventory of music scores.
Container: Box/Folder 2/1 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers A-Ber
Includes the following annotated music scores: English Dances by Malcolm Arnold; Komm Susser Tod by Bach-Stokowski; Violin Concerto No. 2 by Béla Bartók; Hallelujah Chorus, Symphony No. 4, and Symphony No. 8 by Ludwig van Beethoven; two March with Trumpet, Changes for Seven, and Lost Portraits for Orchestra by William Bergsma.
Dates: 1947-1986Container: Box/Folder 1/1 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers Berl-Bern
Includes the following annotated music scores: Fantastic Symphony by Hector Berlioz; On the Town, Candide Overture to, and Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story" by Leonard Berstein.
Container: Box/Folder 2/2 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers Bl-Br
Includes the following annotated music scores: Schelomo by Ernest Bloch; Symphonie Nr. 2, Symphony No. 3, Variations on a Theme of Haydn, and Symphony No. 4 by Johannes Brahms.
Dates: 1995Container: Box/Folder 2/3 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers Br
Includes the following annotated music scores: Violin Concerto in D major and Symphony No. 1 by Johannes Brahms; Summer: Tone Poem by Frank Bridge.
Dates: 1971Container: Box/Folder 1/2 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers Ca-Cr
Includes the following annotated music scores: The Masque of the Red Death by André Caplet; Chaconne in E minor by Dietrich Buxtehude by Carlos Chávez; An Outdoor Overture and Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland; Symphony No. 3 and Invocation and Dance by Paul Creston.
Dates: 1947-1995Container: Box/Folder 2/4 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers De-En
Includes the following annotated music scores: Eventyr by Frederick Delius; Variations on a Nursery Song by Erno Dohnányi; Symphony No. 4 op. 88 and Symphony No. 8 by Antonin Dvorak; Second Roumanian Rhapsody by Georges Enesco.
Dates: 1976Container: Box/Folder 1/3 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers En-Han
Includes the following annotated music scores: First Roumanian Rhapsody by Georges Enesco; Requiem by Gabriel Faure; Ruslan and Ludmila Overature by Mikhali Glinka; Overture "Theodora" by Fredreic Handel; Symphony No. 2 by Howard Hanson.
Container: Box/Folder 1/4 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers Holv-Hov
Includes the following annotated music scores: The Planets byy Gustav Holst; King David: Syphonic Pslamby Arthur Honegger; Symphony No. 13, Magnificat, Concerto No. 8, Meditation on Orpheus (two versions) by Alan Hovaness.
Dates: 1958-1969Container: Box/Folder 2/5 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers Hu-Mah
Includes the following annotated music scores: Music for Prague 1968 by Karel Husa; two Symphony No. 1 by Gustav Mahler.
Dates: 1979-1997Container: Box/Folder 3/1 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers Ko-Mu
Includes the following annotated music scores: Hary Janos Suite by Zoltán Kodaly; Triplo Concerto a tre by Gian Carlo Menotti; Tableaux D'Une Exposition by Mussorgsky-Ravel; Hupango by José Pablo Moncayo.
Dates: 1972Container: Box/Folder 4/1 -
Description: Music Scores, Composer Rachmaninoff
Includes the following annotated music scores: Symphony No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Dates: 1971-1992Container: Box/Folder 3/2 -
Description: Music Scores, Composer Rachmaninoff
Includes the following annotated music scores: Symphony No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Container: Box/Folder 4/2 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers Ra-Re
Includes the following annotated music scores: La Valse, Ma Mere I'Oye, and Daphnis & Chloe by Maurice Ravel; Feste Romane and Fontane di Roma by Ottorino Respighi.
Dates: 1975Container: Box/Folder 4/3 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers Sc-Sh
Includes the following annotated music scores: two Symphony No. 5 by Dmitry Shostakovich; "Unfinished" Symphony No. 8 B Minor by Franz Schubert; New England Triptych by William Schuman.
Container: Box/Folder 4/4 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers Si-St
Includes the following annotated music scores: Violin Concerto in D minor by Jean Sibelius; Overture to the Bartered Bride by Bedrich Smetana; Till Eulenspiegel, Rosenkavalier suite, and Death and Transfiguration by Richard Strauss.
Dates: 1947-1987Container: Box/Folder 3/3 -
Description: Music Scores, Composer Stravinsky
Includes the following annotated music scores: Firebird Suite, two Le Sacre Du Printempts (The Rite of Spring), Berceuse & Finale from the Firebird, and Petrushka by Igor Stravinsky.
Dates: 1962Container: Box/Folder 3/4 -
Description: Music Scores, Composer Tschaikovsky
Includes the following annotated music scores: 1812 Overture and Symphony No. 6 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Container: Box/Folder 5/1 -
Description: Music Scores, Composer Tschaikovsky
Includes the following annotated music scores: Serenade for Strings, Romeo and Juliet, and Symphony No. 4 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Container: Box/Folder 5/2 -
Description: Music Scores, Composers Ve-Wa
Includes the following annotated music scores: two Divertimento for Strings by John Verrall; Siegfried Idyll, Lohengrin Introduction to Act III of the opera, and Lonhengrin Prelude to the Opera by Richard Wagner; Euphony for Orchestra by Robert Ward.
Container: Box/Folder 4/5
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)
Other Creators
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Corporate Names
- University of Washington. University Archives
