Muzykologiczny zbiór Philippa Spitty: niezwykła historia pewnej kolekcji

Abstract

The article presents the most important information on Philipp Spitta as well as the extraordinary history of his private musicological collection located in The Special Collection Department. Philipp Spitta (1841–1894) was a German musicologist, a friend of Schumann and Brahms, a prominent expert on the life, and music of Johann Sebastian Bach and the famous author of his monography. During his life Ph. Spitta collected monuscripts, printed music and books from the XVI century. During World War II, the collection, containing about 4000 works, was scattered. One part found its place in the Library of the Universität der Künste in Berlin, another one – in the The Library of Łódź University. In this article, various problems concerning the discovery, the arrangement, and the presentation of this collection in the Library, are described. The cooperation with the German side is also mentioned, as a result of which appeared the combined catalogue covering the whole collection.