Otto Mesloh Music and Papers

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Original and published music

Personal Papers, 1888-1913



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Collection Overview

Title: Otto Mesloh Music and Papers, 1871-1913Add to your cart.View associated digital content.

ID: 12/9/131

Primary Creator: Mesloh, Otto (1867-1923)

Extent: 2.0 cubic feet

Arrangement: Organized in two series: Series 1, Original and Published Music, 1871-1902 and Series 2, Personal Papers, 1888-1913. Series 1 is arranged alphabetically by title and Series 2 is unarranged.

Date Acquired: 05/29/2013

Subjects: Band Musicians, Bands, Music - Instruction and study, Sousa, John Philip

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Consists of original and published music, photographs, correspondence, dairies, maps, cornet and flute method books, and a flute documenting Mesloh's career as a musician with the John Philip Sousa Band and the Elite Musical Four, music teacher between 1870 and 1913.

Biographical Note

Otto Friedrich Mesloh was born in New Bremen, Ohio on February 26, 1867 to John Henry and Wilhelmina (Boesel) Mesloh.  Although a machinist by trade, according to Karl R. Mesloh, "his love of music won out and Otto became a professional musician."  His mother and two sisters, Emma and Dora Mesloh, were all pianists.  As a young musician Otto played both cornet, flute, piccolo, and saxophone with The Big Six Band of Springfield, Ohio, and traveled with the Waite Comedy Company and the Bubb and Bennett and Waite's Western Company ensembles.  He performed as a cornetist with the John Philip Sousa Band between September 7 and December 4, 1898.  He also played as the band's cornet soloist durng the ensemble's Manhattan Beach concerts between June 17 and September 4, 1899.  Other military bands that Mesloh performed with included the 69th Regimental Band, Callahan's New York Marine Band, the British Bards Band, and Somerset's Military Band.

After departing the Sousa Band in 1899, Mesloh joined the Elite Musicial Four, considered at that time to be one of of the greatest musical vaudeville teams which performed a variety of popular music selections on cornets, flugelphones, saxophones, and xylophones.  The quartet was involved in a serious train derailment on June 11, 1906 when it was returning to New York City from a performance in Atlantic City.  The ensemble's manager, George Van Duzen, was killed and Mesloh was badly injured.  Mesloh was eventually able to continue his career as a performer and teacher in 1908, the injuries that he sufferred from this train accident impacted his work as a musician for the rest of his life.

Subject/Index Terms

Band Musicians
Bands
Music - Instruction and study
Sousa, John Philip

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Acquisition Source: Susan Boecker Durnbaugh

Acquisition Method: Gift. The items donated by Susan Boecker Durnbaugh, Otto Mesloh's great niece, were made in memory of her mother, Margaret Henning Boecker, Otto Mesloh's niece, and her grandmother, Emma Mesloh Henning, Otto Mesloh's sister.


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Series 1: Original and published music, 1871-1902Add to your cart.
Consists of original and published music for cornet, flute and band, and early flute and cornet method books  that were used by Mesloh while both a student and a performing musician between 1871 and 1913.  The music is arranged alphabetically by title.  Of particular interest is an early edition of the Arban's Method for the Cornet and Saxhorn (1881) that was probably used by Mesloh to learn to play the cornet.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Believe Me, if all those endearings; The Last Rose of Summer; Sing, Smile, Slumber; Killarny (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Cornet solos.
Composer/arranger: unknown
Folder 2: The Holy City (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Adams, Stephen; arr. Prendville, Harry
Folder 3: Jung Werner's Parting Song (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Nessler, V. E.; arr. Boettger, E.
Folder 4: Let Me Dream Again (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Sullivan, A.
Folder 5: The Lost Chord (P), 1916Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Sullivan, A.; Beyer, F.
Folder 6: Love's Old Sweet Song; In Old Madrid (P), 1889Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Molloy; Trotere, H.; arr. Laurendeau, L. P.
Folder 7: Marriage Bells (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Boettger, E.
Folder 8: Non e ver; Sing, Smile, Slumber (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Mattei, T.; Gounod, Ch.; arr. Tobani, Theo. M
Folder 9: Pretty Peggy (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: unknown
Folder 10: The Ratcharmer's Song; Asthore; Can I Forget?; For All Eternity (P), 1901Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Neuendorff, A.; Trotere, H.; deKoven, R.; Mascheroni, A.; arr. Thomas, L.
Folder 11: Sally in Our Alley; Alice, Where Are You?; The Low-Backed Car; A Day Dream (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Ascher; Lorer, S.; White, Fred; arr. White, Fred
Folder 12: Serenade, Am Meer, undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Schubert, F.; arr. Greissinger, F. H.
Folder 13: Swiss Boy (P), 1879Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: arr. Bent, B. F.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Arban's Method for the Cornet and Saxhorn, 1881Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Collection of Short Exercises, 1912-1913Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Cornet Instructor, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Excelsior, 1882Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Prediville, Harry
Folder 5: The "Howe" Method of Flue Instruction by Mail, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: How to Triple-Tongue: A Treatise on Staccato, Tongueing, Single, Double, and Triple Form, 1880Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Ouverges' Conservatory Method for the Bochm Flute, 1893Add to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Alice (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: unknown
Folder 2: Blue Bells of Scotland Grand Fantasia (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: St. Jacome
Folder 3: Blue Bells of Scotland Grand Fatasia (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Sabon-Coyon
Folder 4: Caprice de Concert (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Terschak, Adolph
Folder 5: Carnival of Venice (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Mesloh, F. O.
Folder 6: Christmas Song (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Adam
Folder 7: Die Perlen, Concert-Polka (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Kling, H.
Folder 8: Fantasisa on Popular Irish Airs (P, PS), 1886Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Lax, Fred
Folder 9: Fantasie sur des themes de Bellini (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Terschak, Adolph
Folder 10: Fantasie uber das Lied "Wie Schon bist Du" (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Lufer, Bernh.
Folder 11: Galoubet Polka (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: German Air (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: possibly Brahms
Folder 13: The Harp of Fara (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Rogers
Folder 14: Handel's Largo, Reverie Traumerei (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Handel
Folder 15: Impromptu Cadenza for Flute Alone, 1902Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Norrito, Gioachino
Folder 16: Le Chanteur du Printemps (P), 1887Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Lax, Fred
Folder 17: Le Pre aux Clercs, Fantasie por la Flute (P, PS), 1875Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Herold, F.
Folder 18: Miserere (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 19: Nightingale and Thrush (P), 1897Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Kling, Henry
Folder 20: Pickwick Polka (P, PS), 1888Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Lax, Fred
Folder 1890: Polka Caprice (P, PS), 1890Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Damm, August
Folder 22: Rondo Polka (P, PS), 1888Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Donjon, J.; arr. Catlin, E. N.
Folder 23: Six Transcriptions for Flute and Piano (P), 1885Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Steckwest, Henri
Folder 24: The Trilby Song, Ben Bolt (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 25: Two Little Bullfinches (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Kling, H.
Folder 26: Untitled fragment and exercise (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 27: Variations surn un air Tyrolien (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Bohm, Th.
Folder 28: What are the Wild Waves Saying (FS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 29: Whirlwind Polka (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Levy, J.
Folder 30: Yankee Doodle Fantasie and Variations (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Popp, G.
Box 4Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Unidentified music sketches, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Bugles (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Mesloh, Otto
Folder 3: Collection of cornet solos (P, PS), 1885Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Cornet in Orchestra (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Mr Kimmelovichsky
Folder 5: Carnival of Venice; Star-Spangled Banner; Coach Horns (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Mesloh, O.
Folder 6: Nellie (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: "Elite Musical Four"
Folder 7: Salve Maria, Christmas Song, undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Mercandante; Adams
Folder 8: Saxophones, Grand Fantasie-"Old Black Joe"; Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana; Serenade; Serenade (P, PS), 1909Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Mesloh, O.; Cary, E. L.; Mascagni, P.; Moszkowski, M.; Schubert, F.
Folder 9: The Seraph; American Patrol; The Mockingbird (P), 1886-1898Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Chambers, W. P.; Meacham, F. W.; Innes, F. N.
Folder 10: Souvenir of Naples; Tyroliene; Attila; cornet solos with orchestral parts (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Rogers-Zanichelli; Arban
Folder 11: Thirty Duets for B-flat Cornets, 1878Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Yankee Doodle (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Levy, J.
Box 5Add to your cart.
Folder 1: 4 Grand Polkas (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Angel's Serenade (P, PS), 1891Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Braga, G.; Moses, Theo.
Folder 3: Brothers in Arms (P, PS), 1893Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Corbin, A.; arr. by Laurendeau
Folder 4: Columbia (P, PS), 1893Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Rollinson, T. H.
Folder 5: The Commodore (P, PS), 1897Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Chambers, W. Paris
Folder 6: Easylina Polka (P, PS), 1895Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Strassberger, C.
Folder 7: "Fatherland" Fantasy (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: Fifty Choice Duets for Cornet and Piano (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Hoffman, R.; Michaels, Th.; Samuels, E. A.
Folder 9: Flora Waltz (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Cunard, F. W.
Folder 10: Grand Fantasie, "Francis" (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: Grand Polka, "Amphion" (P, PS), 1880Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Cary, E. C.
Folder 12: Just We Two (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Ascher, Emil
Folder 13: Kindred Souls (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Miserere (P, PS), 1884Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Verdi, G.; arr. Bent, B. C.
Folder 15: The Monarch Polka (P, PS), 1897Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Knoll, A. H.
Folder 16: The Palms; Love's Old Sweet Song; Old Folks at Home; Non e ver (P), 1989Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Faure; Molloy; Foster; Mattei
Folder 17: Polka, "Two Friends" (P, PS), 1897Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Lozes; arr. Carey, E. C.
Folder 18: O Promise Me (P, PS), 1894Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: de Koven, Reginald; arr. Franko, Nahan
Folder 19: The Rivals (P, PS), 1888Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Read, L. C.
Folder 20: Sea Flower Polka (PS), 1876Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Rollinson, T. H.
Folder 21: The Seraph (PS), 1898Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Chambers, W. Paris
Folder 22: Le Secret (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Hazel, John
Folder 23: Le Secret (PS), 1893Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Hazel, John
Folder 24: Serenade and Ballad (P, PS), 1871Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: arr. Koppitz, C.
Folder 25: Short and Sweet (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Short, T. V.
Folder 26: Sing, Smile, Slumber (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 27: Souvenir of Naples (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 28: The Swiss Boy (P, PS), 1898Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Davis, G. F.
Folder 29: The Volunteer (P, PS), 1887Add to your cart.
Folder 30: The Water Lilly Polka (P, PS), 1891Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Thomas, W. H.
Box 6Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Arbucklenian Polka (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Alexis, Grand Fantasia (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Hartmann, J.
Folder 3: A Bunch of Roses (P, PS), 1896Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Carnival of Venice (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: De Beriot's 5th Concerto (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: De Beriot
Folder 6: "Emersonian" Polka (PS), 1895Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Farewell Polka (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: The Favorite (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: First "Life Guards" (PS), 1881Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Innes, F. N.
Folder 10: Fra Diavolo (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: Grand Concert Valse, "Ocean View" (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: Cornet solos (P), 1884Add to your cart.

1. Hutchins Polka, Composer/arranger: Thiele, H. H.

2. My Guiding Star

3. Cour de Lion, Composer/arranger: Bellstedt, H.

4. Old Helicon, Composer/arranger: Brooks, E.

5. Cornet Polka, "Hornet", Composer/arranger: Holden, A. P.

6. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, Composer/arranger: Brooks, E.

7. In saecula saeculorum, Composer/arranger: Riano, J.

8. Salute Polka, Composer/arranger: Liberati, A.

9. Original Pastoral Melodies, Composer/arranger: Frick, John

10. Where the Silver Wavelets Dance, Composer/arranger: Liberati, A.

Folder 13: Killarney; Killarney (P, PS), 1893Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Balfe, M. W.; arr. Chambers, W. Paris
Folder 14: Kinloch of Kinloch (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: The Lost Chord (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Carey, E. C.
Folder 16: Marlborough (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 17: My Lodging is on the Cold, Cold Ground (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 18: My Old Kentucky Home (P, PS), 1893Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Masten, I. J.
Folder 19: Le Petit Suisse (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 20: "Tyroliene" Air Varie (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 21: "Un Ballo" Fantasie (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 22: Venetian Love Song (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 23: Weber's Last Waltz (PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 24: Cornet solos (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.

1. Welcome Pretty Primrose, Composer/arranger: Pinsuti; arr. Moses, Theo.

2. Take Back the Heart, Composer/arranger: Claribel; arr. Moses, Theo.

3. Only a dream, Composer/arranger: Wallace; arr. Moses, Theo.

4. Coming Thro' the Rye, Composer/arranger: Scotch melodie; arr. Moses, Theo.

Folder 25: Yankee Doodle, (P, PS), undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 7Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Answer; Manzanillo (P), 1899Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Robyn, Alfred G.; arr. Meyer, L.
Folder 2: Cornet Quartets by Eduard Kiesler, undatedAdd to your cart.
2 pieces by Eduard Kiesler (1840-1929): No. 17: Fantasie, as well as No. 27: Gebet des Eremiten, Lied ohne Worte
Folder 3: I Love You in the Same Old Way (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: I'm Wearing My Heart Away; Instructions for Trumpet and Drum (P), c. 1900Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Nearer my God to thee; Some Day; That I Alone Can Know (P), 1886Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Wellings, Milton; Riegg, Carl; arr. Ramsdell, E. C.
Folder 6: The Theodore Hoch Collection of Quartets for Brass Instruments; Violets, c. 1902Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore; Wright, Ellen; arr. Prendiville, Harry
Box 8Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Carnival of Venice (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Emerson, Walter
Folder 2: Columbia (P), 1893Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Rollinson, T. H.
Folder 3: Emmet's Lullaby (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Short, T. V.
Folder 4: "Fatherland" Fantasy (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Hartmann, John
Folder 5: Galoubet Polka (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Lagard, A.; arr. Claus, J. B.
Folder 6: Glenn Island (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Short, T. V.
Box 9Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Grand Russian Fantasia (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Levy
Folder 2: L'Elegant (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Damare; arr. Browne, J. Lewis
Folder 3: Pretty Jane (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Hartmann, John; arr. Prendiville, Harry
Folder 4: Sextette from Lucia (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 10Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Selected Popular Songs (P), 1885Add to your cart.

1. Buringtonian Polka, Composer/arranger: Carey, E. C.

2. Die Post im Walde, Composer/arranger: Schaffer, A.

3. Nachruf an a Methfessel, Composer/arranger: Hoch, Theodore

4. Old Helicon, Composer/arranger: Brooks, E.

5. Christmas Chimes, Composer/arranger: Brooks, E.

6. Harlow Polka, Composer/arranger: Brooke, T. P.

7. I'll Await My Love, Composer/arranger: Howard, Frank; arr. Brooks, E.

8. Sweet Spirit Hear My Prayer, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

9. Some Day, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

10. How Can I Leave Thee, Composer/arranger: transc. Hoch, Theodore

11. The Last Rose of Summer, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

12. The Heart Bowed Down, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

13. When the Swallows Homeward Fly, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

14. Bonnie Blue Flag, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

15. Dixie Land, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

16. How Fair Art Thou, Composer/arranger; arr. Hoch, Theodore

17. In Childhood I Dallied, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

18. Scandanavian Romance, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

19. Home Sweet Home, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

20. When I Behold, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

21. Sleep Well Sweet Angel, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

22. Good Night My Own Dear Child, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

23. Nearer My God to Thee, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

24. Beloved Star, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

25. Killarney, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

26. Comin' Thro' the Rye, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

27. Robin Adair, Composer/arranger: arr. Hoch, Theodore

Folder 8: L'Art de Chanter Applique au Cornet (P), undatedAdd to your cart.
Composer/arranger: Verdi, G.; arr. Arban, J. B.
Folder 9: The World's Method for Cornet and Saxhorn, 1886Add to your cart.
Composer/arranger: White, Jean

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