Otto E. Albrecht Music Library and Eugene Ormandy Music & Media Center

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Quintet in the Marian Anderson Study Center
Bust of Eugene Ormandy
Beethoven cabinet
Collegium concert on first floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich
Marian Anderson Music Study Center
Ormandy Music & Media Center
Bust of Eugene Ormandy
Beethoven cabinet
Marian Anderson Study Center

 

About the Library:

The Otto E. Albrecht Music Library and Eugene Ormandy Music and Media Center are located in the Van Pelt Library, on the fourth floor (west). We serve the research and teaching needs of Penn’s Music Department and the Penn music community. At the core of the collection are scores in both scholarly and performing editions, literature on music history and theory, ethnomusicology, jazz, popular music, and microforms of primary sources. We house more than 70,000 books, more than 75,000 music scores (print and digital), and more than 50,000 sound recordings and video (digital and analog formats), as well as journals and periodicals. more... →

 

Exhibits

Photo of Marian Anderson boarding a plane (1941). Marian Anderson Photograph Collection, Kislak Center

Ongoing

Marian Anderson on the World Stage

Marian Anderson Gallery

Albrecht Music Library, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Halftone reproduction of the Musical Fund Hall, 1824. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Ongoing

Musical Fund Society at 200
Diffusion of Taste in Philadelphia, 1820-2020

Eugene Ormandy Gallery

Albrecht Music Library, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Next events

Segei Rachmaninoff at piano and Eugene Ormandy. Photo courtesy of the Adrian Siegel Collection/Philadelphia Orchestra Archives

01/31

Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and Its Premiere by the Philadelphia Orchestra:

Celebrating the Rediscovery of a Historic Recording

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Detail from Ludwig Abielle, Ill sonates pour le clavicin ou pianoforte opera III (France, 17th century), UPenn Ms. Codex 13, Kislak Center.

09/27, 11/08, 01/17, 04/10

Music in the Pavilion
Sponsored by the Penn Music Department, the Kislak Center, & the Albrecht Music Library

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Detail from Ludwig Abielle, Ill sonates pour le clavicin ou pianoforte opera III (France, 17th century), UPenn Ms. Codex 13, Kislak Center.

09/27, 11/08, 01/17, 04/10

Music in the Pavilion
Sponsored by the Penn Music Department, the Kislak Center, & the Albrecht Music Library

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Detail from Ludwig Abielle, Ill sonates pour le clavicin ou pianoforte opera III (France, 17th century), UPenn Ms. Codex 13, Kislak Center.

09/27, 11/08, 01/17, 04/10

Music in the Pavilion
Sponsored by the Penn Music Department, the Kislak Center, & the Albrecht Music Library

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Detail from Ludwig Abielle, Ill sonates pour le clavicin ou pianoforte opera III (France, 17th century), UPenn Ms. Codex 13, Kislak Center.

09/27, 11/08, 01/17, 04/10

Music in the Pavilion
Sponsored by the Penn Music Department, the Kislak Center, & the Albrecht Music Library

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Penn Chamber Music cellist

12/05, 04/16, 04/23

Penn Chamber Student Musicians
Music in the Stacks

S.T. Lee Lounge

Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Penn Chamber Music cellist

12/05, 04/16, 04/23

Penn Chamber Student Musicians
Music in the Stacks

S.T. Lee Lounge

Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Albrecht Music Library

Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-6206
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215-898-6248
musiclib@pobox.upenn.edu

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