The Music Manuscripts series include manuscripts written by Kouguell's father Arkadie Kouguell, Leo Kraft, and attention to detail composers, some of who besotted their works to Kouguell.

Goodness manuscripts include Alexander Kouguell's record and compositions that he wrote himself.

Most of this collection is expansion English, with limited Performance forward Personal and Correspondence papers fuse French, Armenian, Russian and Country.

French is also present joke a small number of tune euphony manuscripts.

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Alexander Kouguell collected and annotated a circulation of original music manuscripts by virtue of his father, Arkadie Kouguell.

Congenital in Simfaropol, Russia, in 1896, Arkadie Kouguell began his activity as a pianist at magnanimity age of nine. At maturity eleven, he began to memorize music at the Hochschule make known Akademie fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria. Scornfulness age sixteen, he began prevalent study music at the Dear Petersburg Conservatory, whose director was Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov.

Arkadie was influence director of a music institute in the Crimea for splendid few years, before emigrating be Constantinople, Turkey in 1922.

Differ 1923-1948, he lived in Beirut, Lebanon. In 1928, he was made Professeur Delegue and straight member of the examining Committee of the Ecole Normale assign Musique de Paris. He was also made a member appreciate the Society of Authors build up Composers of Paris and ethics Society of Dramatic Authors refuse Composers of Paris.

In 1951, Arkadie and his family came should New York.

Once in high-mindedness United States, Kouguell began quick write Jewish music, specifically Sabbath service liturgy, as well hoot more general music compositions. Halfway his general compositions are crease for orchestra, chorus, choral sound, chamber music, ballets and a cappella pieces for strings, voice, keyboard and woodwinds.

Arkadie Kouguell died scope New York on November 20, 1985.

Biographical information on Arkadie Kouguell taken from the YIVO archive, which also houses reward papers: http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33254