Biographical Sketch

Louis Ouzer is a local Rochester photographer of national reputation for his portrait photographs of musicians. Ouzer has operated as a photographer in Rochester since the 1930’s. Early in his career much of his work came to center on the activities of Eastman School of Music. Eventually he opened a photographic studio on Gibbs St. in the Lincoln Building, near Eastman School. Because of this convenient proximity, Ouzer came to serve as the unofficial School photographer. His photographs span six decades of the School’s existence and are extremely well known by its students, faculty and alumni.

 

Provenance

Louis Ouzer donated the collection to Sibley Music Library on the occasion of the publication of his book “Contemporary Musicians in Photographs.”

 

Scope and Content

The collection contains photographs that span from the 1940’s through the 1980’s. The bulk are concentrated from 1960-1980. The collection is an excellent photographic documentation of many of the most notable American musicians of the last half of the 20th century.

 

Associations

Watanabe Special Collections holds the Eastman School Photo Archive, among the contents of which are hundreds of images by Louis Ouzer. The department holds a selected collection of the photographs of another eminent local photographer, Alexander Leventon.

 

Restrictions and Use

The images are all under copyright by Louis Ouzer.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF SERIES

The series consists of portrait photographs of famous musicians and is organized into two format sizes and alphabetically therein.

 

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INVENTORY

Box 1

Folder 1	Anderson, Marian. Type: B/W Print. 2 copies.
Folder 2	Armstrong, Louis. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 3	Basie, Count. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 4	Benny, Jack. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 5	Bloch, Suzanne. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 6	Brubeck, Dave. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 7	Caldwell, Sarah. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 8	Carter, Elliott and students. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 9	Children in Suzuki class, 1966. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 10	Copland, Aaron. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 11	Copland, Aaron. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 12	Danish Ballet. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 13	Eastman String Quartet. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 14	Ellington, Duke. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 15	Evans, Bill. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 16	Fennell, Frederick. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 17	Fennell, Frederick. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 18	Fennell, Frederick. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 19	Fitzgerald, Ella. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 20	Foss, Lukas. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 21	Fox, Charles Warren. Type: B/W Print.

 

Box 2

Folder 1	Galway, James. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 2	Garner, Erroll. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 3	Gillespie, Dizzy. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 4	Hall, Herb. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 5	Hanson, Howard. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 6	Horne, Lena. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 7	Iturbi, José. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 8	Jarrett, Keith. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 9	Juilliard Quartet. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 10	Kreisler, Fritz. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 11	McPartland, Marian. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 12	Menuhin, Yehudi. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 13	Miller, Mitch. Type: B/W Print.

 

Box 3

Folder 1	Munch, Charles. Type: B/W Print. 2 copies.
Folder 2	Nelson, Oliver. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 3	Perlman, Itzhak. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 4	Perlman, Itzhak. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 5	Peterson, Oscar. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 6	Price, Leontyne. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 7	Primrose, William and Tursi, Francis. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 8	Rubinstein, Artur. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 9	Serkin, Rudolf. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 10	Stern, Isaac. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 11	Stravinsky, Igor. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 12	Suzuki, Shinichi, 1966. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 13	Tuckwell, Barry. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 14	Warfield, William. Type: B/W Print.

 

Box 4

Folder 1	Abe, Keiko. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 2	Ashkenazy, Vladimir. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 3	Bennett, Robert Russell. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 4	Bennett, Tony. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 5	Bennett, Tony. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 6	Benny, Jack and Taylor, Millard. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 7	Benson, Warren. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 8	Biggs, E. Power. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 9	Boulez, Pierre. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 10	Bream, Julian. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 11	Brubeck, Dave. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 12	Carter, Elliott. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 13	Casadesus, Robert. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 14	Carter, Ron. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 15	Chávez, Carlos. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 16	Cowell, Henry. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 17	Craighead, David. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 18	Crumb, George and Burge, David. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 19	Dalley, John. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 20	Diamond, David. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 21	DeGaetani, Jan. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 22	Desmond, Paul. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 23	Dickenson, Vic. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 24	Doráti, Antal. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 25	Downes, Olin and Sargeant, Winthrop. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 26	Elias, Rosalind. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 27	Evans, Bill. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 28	Firkušný, Rudolf. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 29	Genhart, Cecile. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 30	Getz, Stan. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 31	Gingold, Josef. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 32	Gingold, Josef. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 33	Glenn, Caroll and List, Eugene. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 34	Goodman, Benny. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 35	Gould, Glenn. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 36	Grappelli, Stéphane. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 37	Haas, Karl. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 38	Hall, Herb. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 39	Hanson, Howard. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 40	Hanson, Howard and Freeman, Robert. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 41	Heflinger, Ernst. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 42	Heiller, Anton. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 43	Hendl, Walter. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 44	Hodkinson, Sydney. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 45	Horne, Marilyn. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 46	Horowitz, Vladimir. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 47	Husa, Karel. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 48	Iturbi, José. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 49	Jarrett, Keith. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 50	Jones, Thad. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 51	Khachaturian, Aram. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 52	Kipnis, Igor. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 53	Kolodin, Irving. Type: B/W Print.

 

Box 5

Folder 1	Kondrashin, Kirill. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 2	Kreisler, Fritz. Type: B/W Print. 2 copies.
Folder 3	Landon, H.C. Robbins. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 4	de Larrocha, Alicia. Type: B/W Print. 2 copies.
Folder 5	de Larrocha, Alicia–hands. Type: B/W Print. 2 copies.
Folder 6	de Larrocha, Alicia. Type: B/W Print. 2 copies.
Folder 7	Leinsdorf, Erich. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 8	Lewis, Henry. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 9	List, Eugene. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 10	Maderna, Bruno. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 11	Mariano, Joe. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 12	McPartland, Jimmy. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 13	Melchior, Lauritz. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 14	Mennin, Peter. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 15	Mitropoulos, Dimitri. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 16	Montreux, Pierre. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 17	Montreux, Pierre. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 18	Mulligan, Gerry. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 19	Munch, Charles. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 20	Oistrakh, David. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 21	Peerce, Jan. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 22	Penderecki, Krzysztof. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 23	Persichetti, Vincent. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 24	Rampal, Jean-Pierre. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 25	Remington, Emory. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 26	Remington, Emory. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 27	Remington and Leningrad Phil Members. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 28	Rochberg, George. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 29	Rogers, Bernard. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 30	Rostropovich and Hendl. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 31	Rudel, Julius. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 32	Russian Dancer. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 33	Schneider, Alexander. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 34	Serkin, Rudolf. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 35	Schuller, Gunther. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 36	Starker, János. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 37	Stokowski, Leopold. Type: B/W Print. 2 copies.
Folder 38	Stokowski, Leopold. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 39	Sutherland, Joan. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 40	Svetlanov, Yevgeny. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 41	Szeryng, Henryk. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 42	Thomas, Michael Tilson and Sills, Beverly. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 43	Tormé, Mel. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 44	Trampler, Walter. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 45	VanDemark, J.B. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 46	VanDemark, J.B. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 47	Venuti, Joe. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 48	Wallenstein. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 49	Warfield, William. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 50	Watrous, Bill and Wright, Rayburn. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 51	Watts, André. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 52	Webster, Beveridge. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 53	Wilder, Alec. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 54	Wilder, Alec; Mayo, Virginia; Mercer, Mabel. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 55	Williams, Joe. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 56	Woods, Phil. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 57	Zeitlin, Zvi and Snyder, Barry. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 58	Zinman, David. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 59	Zinman, Mary and Zukerman, Pinchas. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 60	French Horn. Type: B/W Print.
Folder 61	Flugelhorn. Type: B/W Print.