Samuel P. Warren Collection
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Samuel P. Warren Collection1840-1950 (bulk 1880-1910)
Warren, Samuel P. (Samuel Prowse), 1841-1915
Biographical History for: Samuel P. Warren Collection1840-1950 (bulk 1880-1910)
Biographical Note Samuel Prowse Warren was born in Montreal, Quebec on February 18, 1841, the son of organ builder Samuel Russell Warren (1809-1882). At the age of 12, he had shown enough musical ability to give his first organ recital at St. Stephen's Chapel in Quebec and to be appointed as organist at the American Presbyterian Church, a position that he held until he went to Berlin at age 20 to study organ and theory with Karl August Haupt, piano with Gustav Schumann, and instrumentation with Wilhelm Wieprecht. After returning to Montreal, he moved to New York, where he gave his first public recital in January 1866. Later that year he was appointed organist of All Souls Unitarian Church, a position he held until April 1868. He played at Grace Episcopal Church from 1868 to 1874 and at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church from 1874 to 1876. He returned to Grace Church in 1876 and remained at this position until 1894. While at Grace Church, Warren took an active part in the musical life of New York City, especially in the realm of organ and both sacred and secular vocal music. He established a weekly series of organ recitals and was organist for Leopold Damrosch's Oratorio Society from 1874 to 1879. He conducted the New York Vocal Union from 1880-1888. In 1895 Warren accepted a position as organist at the First Presbyterian Church in East Orange, New Jersey, and one year later participated in the founding of the American Guild of Organists, becoming an honorary president of the Guild in 1902. He died in East Orange on October 7, 1915.
Scope and Content Note The Samuel P. Warren Collection consists of correspondence, concert and recital programs, church service programs and related materials that were either collected by Warren himself or given to him by his students, colleagues and others in the New York City and throughout the United States. The collection spans the years from 1850 to 1914, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1880-1910. The letters in the collection, all of which are addressed to Warren, are from a variety of sources, including a number of Warren's pupils who later received some fame in their own right, such as William Crane Carl, Gerrit Smith, William C. Macfarlane, Frederick T. Steinway, and W. C. Hammond. There is also correspondence from colleagues and friends such as Dudley Buck, H. Clarence Eddy, H. E. Krehbiel, and Horatio Parker, Gustave Schirmer, and C. M. Widor. Among the programs in the collection are a chronological series of church service bulletins that outline Warren's work at Holy Trinity Church and Grace Church in New York and First Presbyterian Church in East Orange, New Jersey, dating from 1874 until his death in 1914. Many of these items are annotated, and taken as a whole provide a glimpse of Warren's church music activities Sunday by Sunday for 40 years. Especially interesting are the handwritten service notes containing hymn numbers for weekday services for which a printed program was not prepared. The collection also contains important concert and recital programs from New York's major concert halls of the period. Noteworthy programs include those from: Carnegie Hall, featuring concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Manuscript Society of New York, the Musical Art Society of New York, the Russian Symphony Society, and recitals by Paderewski; Chickering Hall, with programs featuring Hans von Bülow, Vladimir de Pachmann, the Mendelssohn Glee Club, and the New York Vocal Union; and the Metropolitan Opera House, with performances by the Philharmonic Society of New York and the Damrosch Opera Company. This collection was processed by Michael Ferrando, Technician and Robert Saladini, Music Specialist, December 1992.
series
Correspondence
Letters addressed to Samuel P. Warren that were purchased by the Library from Mrs. Joan Southward of New York in 1939 for $50 (acquisition number 572578, formerly cataloged as ML94.W37).
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Alexander, J. I.
Baldwin, Edward J.
Buck, Dudley
Carl, William Crane
Dawson, P. M.
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Eddy, Clarence
Espagne, Franz
Evans, John M.
Hammond, W. C.
Huntington
Kennedy, Dion W.
Krehbiel, Henry E.
MacFarlane, William C.
Mason, William
Parker, Horatio W.
Parsons, Albert Ross
Potter, Henry C. Rev.
Ritter, Louis
Schermerhorn, William C.
Schirmer, Gustave
Smith, Gerrit
Stavers, G. E.
Steinway, Fred T.
Steinway, William
Widor, Charles-Marie
Woodruff, A. D.
Miscellaneous
Programs
These concert and recital programs are from New York's major concert halls of the period. Noteworthy programs include those from: Carnegie Hall, featuring concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Manuscript Society of New York, the Musical Art Society of New York, the Russian Symphony Society, and recitals by Paderewski; Chickering Hall, with programs featuring Hans von Bülow, Vladimir de Pachmann, the Mendelssohn Glee Club, and the New York Vocal Union; and the Metropolitan Opera House, with performances by the Philharmonic Society of New York and the Damrosch Opera Company. Among the programs in the collection are a chronological series of church service bulletins that outline Warren's work at Holy Trinity Church and Grace Church in New York and First Presbyterian Church in East Orange, New Jersey, dating from 1874 until his death in 1914. Many of these items are annotated, and taken as a whole provide a glimpse of Warren's church music activities Sunday by Sunday for 40 years. Especially interesting are the handwritten service notes containing hymn numbers for weekday services for which a printed program was not prepared.
subseries
United States
California
Oakland
Methody Meetin House
Unitarian Church
San Francisco
First Congregational Church
Temple Emanu-el
Colorado
Denver
Saint John's Cathedral
Connecticut
Greenwich
Christ Church
Hartford
Asylum Hill Congregational Church
Center Church
Fourth Church
Miss Haines's School, Woodside
Pearl Street Congregational Church
Meriden
Methodist Episcopal Church
Middletown
Wesleyan University
New Britain
South Church
New Canaan
Saint Mark's Church
New Haven
Trinity Church
Willis C. Shelton Music Hall
Yale University, Marquand Chapel
New London
First Baptist Church
Norfolk
Congregational Church
Norwalk
Norwich
Trinity M. E. Church
Stamford
Presbyterian Church
Stamford M. E. Church
Winsted
Litchfield County Choral Union
District of Columbia
Washington
Illinois
Chicago
Apollo Musical Club
Auditorium
Central Music Hall
First Methodist Episcopal Church
First Presbyterian Church
Hershey Music Hall
McCormick's Hall
Orchestra Hall
Unity Church
World's Columbian Exposition
Indiana
Bloomington
Grace M. E. Church
Indianapolis
Robert's Park Church
Richmond
South Bend
First Methodist Church
Iowa
Dubuque
Maryland
Baltimore
Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church
Massachusetts
Berkeley
Berkeley Temple
Boston
Boston Music Hall
Church of the Advent
Mendelssohn Quintette Club
New England Conservatory of Music
Old First Church
Peace Jubilee
Second Church
Shawmut Church
South Congregational Church
Tremont Temple
Cambridge
Harvard College
Cambridgeport
Pilgrim Church
East Northfield
Northfield Seminary
Fall River
Central Congregational Church
Great Barrington
Town Hall
Holyoke
Second Congregational Church
Lawrence
Eliot Congregational Church
First Free Baptist Church
Lexington
New Bedford
North Congregational Church
Newton
Grace Church
North Adams
Baptist Church
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church
North Amherst
Northampton
First Church of Christ
Saint John's Church
Smith College
South Hadley
Mount Holyoke College
Springfield
City Hall
Wellesley
Wellesley College
West Brookfield
Worcester
Mechanic's Hall
Michigan
Detroit
Detroit Conservatory of Music
Fort Street Presbyterian Church
Grand Rapids
Johnson, Dr. G. R.
Minnesota
St. Paul
House of Hope Church
Mississippi
Corinth
Missouri
Columbia
Stephens College
Kansas City
Calvary Baptist Church
Grand Avenue M. E. Church
St. Louis
Second Baptist Church
Mercantile Library Hall
New Jersey
Asbury Park
Atlantic City
Church of the Ascension
Elizabeth
Third Presbyterian Church
Westminster Church
Hightstown
Jersey City
Claremont Presbyterian Church
Second Presbyterian Church
Tabernacle
Madison
Webb Memorial Church
Montclair
Presbyterian Chapel
Morristown
Humphrey's, Dr.
New Brunswick
Conservatory of Music
Masonic Hall
Second Reformed Church
Newark
Church of the Redeemer
Miner's Theatre
Park Hall
Orange
Music Hall
Orange Valley Church
Shepard School of Music
West Hoboken
New York
Albany
Battershall, Rev. Walton W.
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Saint Peter's Church
Binghamton
Stone Opera House
Bloomfield
Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach Music Hall
Brooklyn
12th Street Reformed Church
Academy of Design
Art Association
Association Hall
Athenaeum
Baptist Temple
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Tabernacle
Church of the Holy Trinity
Clarendon Hotel
Clinton Avenue Reformed Church
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Emmanuel Church
Franklin Avenue Presbyterian Church
German Evangelical Church
Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
Long Island Historical Society
New York Avenue M. E. Church
Phillips, Mr.
Plymouth Church
Reformed Church
Saint Ann's-on-the-Heights
Saint Luke's Church
Saint Mary's P. E. Church
Saint Michael's Church
Simpson M. E. Church
Strong Place Baptist Church
Van Dyke, Mrs. A. V. B.
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Buffalo
Delaware Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint John's Episcopal Church
Saint Paul's Church
Clifton Springs
Methodist Episcopal Chruch
Cornwall
Library Hall
Fishkill Landing
Geneva
Memorial St. Peter's Church
Gouverneur
Union Hall
Great Neck
Long Island City
Cathedral of the Incarnation
Lowville
Roscoe Hall
Mount Vernon
Old Baptist Church
New Rochelle
New Rochelle Theatre
Newburgh
Newburgh Opera House
New York City
Academy of Music
Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn Concerts
Philharmonic Society of New York Concerts
Other Performances
Adams Memorial Church
Aeolian Hall, 362 5th Ave.
Aeolian Hall, 694 Main St.
All Souls' Church
Allen, Dr. T. F.
American Institute of Applied Music
Arion Hall
Assembly Hall, 15 6th Avenue
Assembly Hall, 109 E. 22nd Street
Baptist Tabernacle
Barnum's Hippodrome
Berkeley Lyceum, West 44th St.
Booth's Theatre
Brick Presbyterian Church
Broadway Tabernacle Church
Broadway Theatre
Calvary Chapel
Calvary Church
Carnegie Hall
Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerts
Manuscript Society of New York Concerts
Musical Art Society of New York Concerts
Oratorio Society of New York Concerts
Paderewski Concerts
Peoples Symphony Concerts
Russian Symphony Society Concerts
Symphony Concerts for Young People
Symphony Society of New York Concerts
Carnegie Lyceum
Central Park Garden
Central Presbyterian Church
Chamber Music Hall
Chickering Hall
Emilio Agramonte Concerts
Dr. Hans von Bülow Conducts Symphony Concerts
Vladimir De Pachmann's Concerts
English Glee Club Concerts
Josefy Concerts
Mendelssohn Glee Club Concerts
Morgan Harp and Organ Matinees
New York Vocal Union Concerts
New York Philharmonic Club Concerts
Vocal Society of New York Concerts
Vocal Union of New York Concerts
Christ Church, Sherman Square
Church of Saint Francis of Assisi
Church of Saint John the Evangelist
Church of Saint Mary the Virgin
Church of Saint Vincent Ferrer
Church of the Disciples
Church of the Divine Paternity
Church of the Heavenly Rest
Church of the Holy Communion
Church of the Holy Spirit
Church of the Incarnation
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
Church of the Puritans
Church of Zion and St. Timothy
College of the City of New York
Columbia Theatre
Columbia University
Cooper Union Auditorium
Daly's Theatre
De Garmo Hall
Decker Brothers Warerooms
Elk's Hall, Columbus Circle
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Fifth Avenue Theatre
Five Points House of Industry
Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church
French Theatre
Garden Theatre
Gilmore's Concert Garden
Mr. Gould's Piano Warerooms
Grace Chapel
Grace Church [Episcopal], Broadway and 10th St.
Grace Hall
Grace M. E. Church, 7th Avenue
Grace M. E. Church, 104th Street
Grammar School #50
Grand Central Palace
Hammerstein's Victoria
Hardman's Hall
Harlem Hall, Harlem
Harvey's 14th Street Theatre
Holy Trinity Church, Harlem
Holy Trinity Church, Lenox Avenue
Hotel Astor
Hotel Savoy
Hudson Theatre
Irving Hall
Judson Memorial Church
Knabe Hall
Lenox Lyceum, Madison Ave. and 59th St.
Lyceum Theatre
Lyric Hall
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
Madison Avenue Reformed Church
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Presbyterian Church
Manhattan Opera House
Manuscript Society of New York Club Rooms
Marble Collegiate Church
Mason and Hamlin Hall
Masonic Temple
Mendelssohn Club
Mendelssohn Glee Club Hall
Kneisel Quartet Concerts
Edward MacDowell Fund Conference
Mendelssohn Hall
Ben Greet Players
Boston Symphony Quartet Concerts
MacDowell Association Mid Winter Public Meeting
Metropolitan Opera House
Chicago Orchestra Concerts
Damrosch Opera Company Performances
Maurice Grau Opera Company Performances
Other Perfomances
National Conservatory of Music
New Amsterdam Theatre
New Century Drawing Room
New Lyceum Theatre
New Music Hall
New Theatre
New York College of Music
New York Hippodrome
New York Institute for the Blind
New York Theatre
Niblo's Garden
Normal College
Orpheus Glee Club
Packer Institute
Miss Perine
Pilgrim Congregational Church
Presbyterian Assembly Hall
Presbyterian Hall
Reformed Church, Harlem
Riverside Baptist Church
Robinson's Hall
Ross Street Presbyterian Church
Rutgers Presbyterian Church
Saint Agnes Chapel, Trinity Parish
Saint Andrew's Church
Saint Augustine's Chapel
Saint Bartholomew's Church
Saint Chrysostom's Chapel
Saint Francis Zavier[sic]
Saint George's Church
Saint James Church
Saint John's Chapel, Trinity Parish
Saint John's Methodist Church
Saint John's M. E. Church
Saint Joseph's Hall
Saint Nicholas Garden
Saint Paul's Chapel
Saint Philip's P. E. Church
Saint Thomas Church
Scharwenka Conservatory of Music
Schermerhorn, Edmund
Scotch Presbyterian Church
Second Church of Christ
Seventh Regiment Armory
Sherry's
South Church, 5th and 21st. St.
South Reformed Church
Standard Hall
Steck Hall
Steinway Hall
Steinway Hall bound programs
Church Music Association Concerts
Annette Essipoff Concerts
Marie Krebs Concerts
New York Chorus Society Concerts
New York Mozart Club Concerts
Anton Rubinstein Concerts
Theodore Thomas and his Orchestra Concerts
Stuyvesant Theatre
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Tammany Grand Theatre
Telharmonic Hall
Terrace Garden Theatre
Tonküstler Verein
Union League Theatre
University Place Presbyterian Church
Waldorf-Astoria
Wallack's
Dr. Wild's (Bond St.) Church
Mrs. Wood's
Wood's Museum
Young Apollo Club
Young Men's Christian Association Hall
Zion Church
[Unidentified]
17 West 28th St.
53rd St. Baptist Church
64 West 19th St.
434 Madison Ave.
536 West End Ave.
585 Broadway, New York
Ogdensburg
Eagle Hall
Ossining
Ossining-on-Hudson
Miss Fuller's School
Oswego
Piermont
Potsdam
Potsdam Opera House
Poughkeepsie
Collingwood Opera House
Poughkeepsie Lyceum
Poughkeepsie Opera House
Vassar College
Rochester
Wilkins, Herve D.
Rye
Sailors Snug Harbor
Randall Memorial Church
Saratoga Springs
Temple Grove Seminary
Syracuse
Crouse College
Park Church
Tarrytown
First Reformed Church
Troy
Valatie
Wappingers Falls
Academic Hall
McKinlay, John
Watertown
Saint Patrick's Church
Universalist Church
Washington Hall
Yonkers
Warburton Hall
Ohio
Cincinnati
College of Music of Cincinnati
Hopkins Hall
Cleveland
Pilgrim Institutional Church
Columbus
Wesley Chapel
Oberlin
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Painesville
Lake Erie College
Sydney
Methodist Sunday School
Pennsylvania
Bethlehem
Moravian Church
Chambersburg
First Lutheran Church
Easton
Harrisburg
Pine Street Presbyterian Church
Lancaster
Saint John's Lutheran Church
Lehigh
Lehigh University
Philadelphia
American Academy of Music
Calvary Presbyterian Church
Church of Our Saviour, Jenkintown
Drexel Institute
Evangelists' P. E. Church
First New Jerusalem Church
First Presbyterian Church, Germantown
Grace P. E. Church
Holland Memorial Presbyterian Church
Horticultural Hall
Oxford Presbyterian Church
Saint Matthew's Church, Throop Ave.
Saint Phillip's Church
Saint Stephen Church
Wanamaker Auditorium
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Music Hall
First United Presbyterian Church
Saint Paul's Cathedral
Reading
Christ Cathedral
Grace Lutheran Church
South Bethlehem
Park Memorial Church
Scranton
Pennsylvannia Avenue Baptist Church
Wellsboro
Methodist Church
Wilkes-Barre
Rhode Island
Providence
Blackstone Hall
South Carolina
Gaffney
Limestone College Hall
Other countries
Canada
Ontario
Ottawa
Eastern Methodist Church
Toronto
Cathedral Church of St. James
Metropolitan Church
Shaftsbury Hall
Quebec
Montreal
Acton Vale
Albert Hall
American Presbyterian Church
Art Association of Montreal
Beaver Hall
Church of Saint James the Apostle
Christ Church Cathedral
McGill College
Queen's Hall
Synod Hall
Windsor Hall
Winter Carnival
England
London
Exeter Hall
Royal Albert Hall
Saint Anne's Church, Soho
Saint James's Hall
France
Paris
Salle Albert-Le Grand
Mexico
Mexico City
Conservatory Theatre
Union Evangelical Church
Scotland
Edinburgh
International Exhibit of 1890
Identified by name only
Baptist Church of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Brick Church, Rochester, N.Y.
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Central Church
Centre Church
Church of Our Lady of Victory
Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church of the Nativity
Church of the Transfiguration
Collegiate Church
Concordia Opera House
First Church
German Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Church
Jordan Hall
Linden Hall
Martini Evangelical Lutheran Church
Masonic Opera House
Memorial Hall
New Brattle Church (Boston, Mass.)
New M.E. Church
New Second Congregational Church
Norman, Mr. Van
The "Old First" Presbyterian Church of New York
Old Stone Church
Peddie Memorial Church
The People's Church
Potter Hall
Roseville M. E. Church
Seeley's Hall
St. James Episcopal Church (Chicago, Ill.)
St. James Roman Catholic Church
St. John's P.E. Church
St. Michael's Church
Tomlinson Hall
Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church
Townsend, Mr. Isaac
Trinitarian Congregational Church
Trinity M.E. Church
Wilson College Chapel
Woolsey Hall
Zion P.E. Church
Clippings
German Langauge Programs
Lecture Recital on Edward MacDowell
Other Performances identified by performer only (A-Z)
Scrapbooks, 1849 December 5 to 1876 December
Scrapbooks of Samuel P. Warren.
Scrapbook 1 (December 5, 1849 to May 31, 1869)
Scrapbook 2 (March 1869 to June 7, 1873)
Scrapbook 3 (January 16, 1902 to September 27, 1903)
Scrapbook 4 (1868 to June 10, 1870)
Scrapbook 5 (December 31, 1868 to December 1876)
Scrapbook 6 (January 8, 1870 to December 15, 1870)
Scrapbook 7 (August 17, 1854 to March 4, 1863)