Word: musicologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turned His Back. Next day the U.S. press told its readers the story of Albert Schweitzer. As an organist he once played before jammed audiences in churches and concert halls of Europe; his recordings are still ranked at the top of their field. He is a musicologist whose edition of Bach's organ works is a standard text; his biography of Bach has never been surpassed. He is a doctor of medicine whose 36 years of selfless pioneering as a missionary to the natives of French Equatorial Africa are a bright highlight in the relations between the white race...
Died. Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev, 64, Stalin Prizewinning Soviet musicologist and composer (his work is little known outside Russia), chairman of the powerful Union of Soviet Composers (to which Prokofiev and Shostakovich apologized last year for their "bourgeois, antidemocratic" music); in Moscow...
More cherished are the thanks of all those whom she has helped or to whom she has given joy. One musicologist wrote not long ago, "She receives the homage of every musician the world over." A declaration from President Roosevelt for the celebration of her eightieth birthday probably best expresses the gratitude of the public. "Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge has done what none before her had found the means to do. No one has contributed more to the understanding of music in America, and no one has given greater encouragement to writers and performers of music in America than Mrs. Coolidge...
Auden, who will discuss "The Ironic Hero," is the last speaker in a symposium which has included novelist Ralph Bates, musicologist Adololfo Salazar, and Harry Levin '33, associate professor of English...
...Mozart, who wrote 626 works in his 35 years, put no opus numbers on them. An industrious Salzburg musicologist, Dr. Ludwig Ritter von Kochel, got his name permanently attached to Mozart's by going through Mozart's notes, letters and records, and 71 years after his death, listing Mozart's known pieces in the order he wrote them. Kochel's catalogue, with his proofs and comments, filled 551 pages. Kochel's catalogue has been revised twice-most recently in 1937 by Mozart Biographer Alfred Einstein-after new Mozart material was found, and some of Kochel...