Arthur Mendel
Arthur Mendel (born June 6, 1905 in Boston / Massachusetts , † October 14, 1979 in Newark / New Jersey ) was an American choir conductor, musicologist and teacher.
Mendel studied at Harvard University until 1925 and then attended courses in music theory with Nadia Boulanger in Paris until 1927 . From 1930 to 1938 he worked for the music publisher G. Schirmer, Inc. He also worked from 1930 to 1933 as a music critic for The Nation magazine . From 1940 to 1943 he was an editor for the Journal of the American Musicological Society and from 1941 to 1947 for the Associated Music Publishers .
From 1938 to 1950 Mendel taught at the Dalcroze School of Music , of which he was director from 1947, and the Diller-Quaile School in New York. He lectured at Columbia University in 1949 and at the University of California at Berkeley in 1951 . From 1952 until his retirement in 1973 he was a professor at the Music Faculty of Princeton University , which he also headed until 1967. He was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973.
From 1936 to 1953 Mendel directed the Cantata Singers in New York, one of the first authentic baroque choirs in the USA. In 1945 he published The Bach Reader (2nd edition 1966 with Hans Theodor David ) in New York . A collection of his articles and studies on Renaissance and Baroque music appeared in the volume Studies in the History of Musical Pitch in 1969 . Mendel was one of the editors of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe and the Josquin -Edition . He also edited Bach's Christmas Oratorio ( Christmas Story , 1949) and Musicalische Exequien (1957). 1969-70 appeared his work on the use of computer technology in music Computers and the Humanities .
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| SURNAME | Mendel, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American choir conductor, musicologist and teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1979 |
| Place of death | Newark (New Jersey) |