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Dr. Richard J. Bing collection of music scores

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0213

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of the collected musical manuscripts of Dr. Richard J. Bing (1909-2010), composer and former Director of Experimental Cardiology and Scientific Development at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California.

Dates

  • Creation: 1930 - 2005

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical / Historical

Richard J. Bing (1909-2010) earned his medical degree at the University of Munich in 1934, he left Nazi Germany shortly after and continued his study at the University of Bern in Switzerland where he earned another medical degree in 1935. He took a fellowship in Copenhagen at the Carlsberg Biological Institute and was then invited to Rockefeller Institute in New York on the early development of machine perfusion. His work in the field of cardiology took him to institutions around the country, and eventually he joined the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California as the Director of Experimental Cardiology and Scientific Development. He conducted pioneering cardiology research in cardiac metabolism, enabling the accurate measurements of the effect of drugs on the heart, studied the chemistry of heart attacks, and developed techniques for high-speed photography of the coronary vessels.



Bing studied piano at the Berlin Music Academy and organ in Bern; has composed over 250 works, for piano and voice, chamber ensembles, orchestra and chorus.

Extent

37.2 Linear Feet (25 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Collection consists of the collected musical manuscripts of Dr. Richard J. Bing (1909-2010), composer and former Director of Experimental Cardiology and Scientific Development at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California.

Additional collection guides

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to USC in 1997.

Title
Finding aid for the Dr. Richard J. Bing collection of music scores
Status
Publish Basic
Author
Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
Date
2023 February
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository

Contact:
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