Gaylord Yost Collection, 1910 - 2004

Repository
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Archives and Special Collections
Title
Gaylord Yost Collection
Creator
Yost, Gaylord, 1888-1958
Collection Number
CLP.20161221.001.MSC
Extent
2 Boxes Stored in 2 record storage containers.
Date
1910-2004
Language
English .
Author
Joelle Killebrew, Mina Belle Wichmann
Publisher
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Archives and Special Collections
Address
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
Telephone: 412.622.3114
info@carnegielibrary.org
URL: http://www.carnegielibrary.org/

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a scrapbook by Yost, publicity photographs, articles by and about Yost, correspondence including with Albert Stoessel, Toscha Seidel, and Albert Spaulding, lecture notes, Printing masters of The Yost Violin System and Yost Violin Method, and music score manuscripts.

Biographical / Historical

Gaylord Purcell Yost was born in 1888 in Fayette, Ohio. In 1906, he went to Berlin to study with renowned Russian virtuoso Issay Barmas. Between 1907 and 1911 he toured as a concert artist across the United States, Europe, and South America. In 1919, he moved to Pittsburgh and became the head of the violin department at Pittsburgh Musical Institute, a position he held for 25 years. He formed the Yost String Quartet. Yost composed numerous short compositions for violin and piano and published multiple volumes of violin pedagogy called Yost Violin System. Yost moved back to Fayette in 1951 to take over his father's newspaper The Fayette Review and served as the mayor of Fayette from 1954 to 1957.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research but may contain specific access restrictions. Please handle with care.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection is open for research but may contain specific reproduction restrictions due to copyright.

Custodial History

Donated to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Music Department by Gaylord Yost, Jr., the son of Gaylord P. Yost.

Preferred Citation

Gaylord Yost Collection, Pittsburgh Music Archive #43, Music Department, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

Existence and Location of Originals

Pittsburgh Music Archive #43

Container List

Correspondence between Yost Jr. and K. Logan, head of the CLP Music Department, 2002-2004
Containers
box 1, folder 1
Professional photographs of Yost and Yost String Quartet
Containers
box 1, folder 2
Articles by and about Gaylord Yost
Containers
box 1, folder 3

Language

English.

Lecture by Yost to members of the Music Teachers National Association and the American String Teachers Association, 1950
Containers
box 1, folder 4

Language

English.

Early Correspondence to Yost, including Albert Stoessel, Toscha Seidel, and Albert Spaulding
Containers
box 1, folder 5

Language

English.

Yost Scrapbook, 1904-1938
Containers
box 2

Language

English.

Scope and Contents

This scrapbook contains concert programs featuring Yost as soloist or with Yost String Quartet, newspaper reviews and previews of concerts given by Yost as soloist or with Yost String Quartet, publicity materials about Yost, photographs of Yost and others, newspaper and magazine articles written by or about Yost, and catalogs of publications authored by Yost: compositions and pedagogy.