Robert Owens Music Collection
Scope and Contents
The Owens collections contains materials and compositions. The collection includes published and unpublished scores and original manuscripts of the composer. The collection also contains personal items such as books, newspaper clippings, play scripts, and photographs that belonged to Owens.
Dates
- 1947-2013
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Owens III (1925-2017), born in Denison, Texas, and raised in Berkeley, California, was an African-American composer and performer. Following World War II, Owens studied music on a GI bill in Paris and Vienna beginning in 1946. He returned to the U.S. during 1957-1959, and then moved to Hamburg, Germany, and later Munich, for the rest of his career as a composer, pianist, and actor. He set songs to lyrics by Langston Hughes, Emily Bronte, and Sara Teasdale, among others. He also wrote operas and chamber music.
Extent
11 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
- Chamber music Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Choral music Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Incidental music Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Instrumental music Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Monologs with music Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Music Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Music Scores Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Operas Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Songs Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries Repository
Archives & Special Collections
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
P.O. Box 884100
Lincoln NE 68588-4100 United States
402-472-2531
archives@unl.edu
