Nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale," opera singer Grace Moore was born December 5, 1898 or 1901, in Slabtown, Tennessee, and raised in Jellico, Tennessee. She studied singing and music theory at Ward-Belmont College in Nashville and later in Washington, D.C. Around 1920, Moore moved to New York and debuted in 1928 at the Metropolitan Opera in La Boheme. Between 1930 and 1938 she starred in several movies, one of which garnered her an Academy Award nomination. She toured Europe and sang at the Met several times.
In 1931, Moore married Spanish actor Valentin Parera in Cannes, France. On January 26, 1947, the plane Moore was riding crashed and exploded during takeoff in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her body was flown to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and buried.
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Series I: Sheet Music, 1867-1958
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Sheet Music, 1867-1898
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Sheet Music, 1900-1910
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Sheet Music, 1911-1916
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Sheet Music, 1917-1925
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Sheet Music, 1926-1931
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Sheet Music, 1932-1934
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Sheet Music, 1935-1936
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Sheet Music, 1937-1958
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Sheet Music, undated
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Sheets signed by composers/lyricists to Miss Moore
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Sheets signed by Grace Moore
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Sheets dedicated to and annotated by Miss Moore
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Handwritten sheet music
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Letters by composers Scope Note: a. Hector Berlioz (undated)
b. Anthelma Brillant-Savarin (undated)
c. Leo Delibes (1886)
d. Gabriel Faure (1913)
e. Charles Gound (1872)
f. Reynolds Hahn (undated)
g. Fromental Halvey (1861)
h. Franz Liszt (undated)
i. Jules Massenet (undated)
j. Andre Messanger (1901)
k. Mozart folder only
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Letters to Miss Moore
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Series II: Mementoes, 1947
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Sequidille
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Newspaper Clippings
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Singing melody of Manuel Garcia
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Programs
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3 Moore performance posters
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Grace Moore Fan Club, 1947
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Lookout
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Louise
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Die Schone Helena
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Congedo
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Wie die Lerche singt
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Lonsome Tunes
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Areangelo Del Leuto
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Faust
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Sequidilla
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The Simmons Album
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Cancoes
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Series III: Sheet Music
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Sheet 1: Album de Musica Popular Mexicana
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Sheet 2: Andrea Chenier
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Sheet 3: Andrea Chenier
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Sheet 4: Classigues Espangnols da Chant
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Sheet 5: Cucioneiro Gaucho
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Sheet 6: Douze Chants
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Sheet 7: Early Spanish-California Folk Songs
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Sheet 8: Echos de France
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Sheet 9: Eddy Duchin's Pianorama
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Sheet 10: Favorites
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Sheet 11: Flotow Martha
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Sheet 12: Forty Songs-Tchaikovsky
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Sheet 13: Goyescas
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Sheet 14: Irish Songs
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Sheet 15: John W: Schaum-Piano Course
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Sheet 16: Juanita
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Sheet 17: Libro Terzo
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Sheet 18: Lily Strickland-Songs of IND
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Sheet 19: Lo! Here the Gentle Ark
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Sheet 20: Madame Pompadour
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Sheet 21: Manuel De Falla
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Sheet 22: Maria Grever
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Sheet 23: Moods of Ashford
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Sheet 24: Offering to Eros (six songs)
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Sheet 25: Oklahoma Song Book
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Sheet 26: Old Irish Melodies
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Sheet 27: Part songs-mixed voices
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Sheet 28: Peking Pictures (three songs)
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Sheet 29: Pelleas Et Melisande
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Sheet 30: Poyesques
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Sheet 31: Schirmeis Standard Secular Choruses
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Sheet 32: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
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Sheet 33: Six Shakespeare Songs
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Sheet 34: Soneto A Cordoba
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Sheet 35: Songs of the People
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Sheet 36: Song of Stephen Foster
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Sheet 37: Stephen Foster's Immortal Songs
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Sheet 38: Stephen Foster's Songs
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Sheet 39: The All-American College Football Songs
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Sheet 40: Three Songs-Indian Serenades
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Sheet 41: Tre Canzon Argentine
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Sheet 42: Toaguin Nin
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Sheet 43: World Wide Music of the Month
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Sheet 44: 5 Songs from the Chinese Poets
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Sheet 45: 20 Favorite Songs
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Sheet 46: 59 Piano Solos
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Series IV: Scrap Books and Record Albums, 1876-1955
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Item 1: Scrapbook, 1876-circa 1940
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Item 2: Record: Que Deviennent les Roses/Toi Seule (2 copies)
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Item 3: Scrapbook, 1925-1940
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Item 4: Scrapbook, 1924-1938
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Item 5: Scrapbook, 1928-1930
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Item 6: Scrapbook, 1928-1930
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Item 7: Scrapbook, 1935-1938
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Item 8: Scrapbook, 1935-1941
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Item 9: Scrapbook, 1936
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Item 10: Record: La Boheme-Mi Chiamano Mimi/Louise-Depuis le Jour
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Item 11: Scrapbook, 1944
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Item 12: Scrapbook, 1945
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Item 13: Scrapbook, 1945
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Item 14: Scrapbook, 1947
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Item 15: Scrapbook, 1947
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Item 16: Scrapbook, 1947
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Item 17: Scrapbook, 1947
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Item 18: Scrapbook, 1947
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Item 19: Scrapbook, 1947
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Item 20: Scrapbook, 1953
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Item 21: Record: A Grace Moore Souvenir Album (1 Record)
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Item 22: Record: A Grace Moore Program (3 Records)
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Item 23: Scrapbook, 1955
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Item 24: Record: Unidentified (2 copies)
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Item 25: Record: Trilby (with Peter Lorre)(4 Records)
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Item 26: Record: Grace Moore Souvenir Album (2 Records)
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