Arthur Mendel
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Arthur Mendel
(b Boston, 6 June 1905; d Newark, nj, 14 Oct 1979). American musicologist. He studied at Harvard and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger (1925-7), then worked as a critic, in music publishing and as a conductor of Baroque music. He taught in New York and from 1952 at Princeton. He worked on the history of pitch, on Josquin and on the application of computer technology to musicological problems; but above all he produced studies of Bach's life and editions of his works (notably the documentary biography The Bach Reader (1945), with Hans T. David). He was the foremost American Bach scholar of his generation.
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Arthur Mendel
Arthur Mendel (June 6, 1905 – October 14, 1979) was an American musicologist.
Literary works
- music critics on the "Nation" (1930–1933)
- editor of "The Bach Reader", 1945 (with H. T. David)
- Studies in the History of Musical Pitch, 1968
- One of the translators to Mozart: His Character. His work by Alfred Einstein [1]
- Translator of 'Mozart's Choice of Keys' by Alfred Einstein
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