Cleveland Johnson

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Cleveland Johnson (born November 3, 1955 ) is an American organist , musicologist, early music editor and manager of the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey . Since 2012 he has been professor emeritus at DePauw University .

life and work

Johnson studied music history and organ from 1973 to 1977 at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and from 1977/78 at the North German Organ Academy in the Steinhaus Bunderhee with Harald Vogel and Klaas Bolt . Here he immersed himself in the old way of playing on historical organs of the organ landscape of East Friesland and also regularly examined the north German organ culture in the following years. He completed his doctoral studies (1978 to 1980) at the University of Oxford with a doctorate on German organ tablatures of the 16th and 17th centuries. Further studies followed at the University of Göttingen under Wolfgang Boetticher . From 1985 to 1991 he was an assistant professor at DePauw University and was an associate professor there from 1991 to 2001. From 2001 to 2012 he was Full Professor and since 2006 Dean of the School of Music . He was director of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Foundation from 2008 to 2011. From 2012 to 2017 he was director of the National Music Museum in Vermillion (South Dakota) . Johnson has been Managing Director of the Morris Museum in Morristown since 2017 .

Cleveland Johnson, together with Claudia Heberlein Johnson, made the first recording of all of Heinrich Scheidemann 's organ works , whose motet colorations (organ intavolations) he also published. Since 1972 he has been organist, singer and musical director in various churches of different denominations. From 1980 to 1982 he was a continuo player in the baroque ensemble Fiori musicali (under the direction of Thomas Albert ) at concerts, radio and recordings. At the beginning of the 21st century he researched the history of keyboard instruments in India and documented the historical Indian pipe organs and harmonies in a database.

Literature (selection)

  • Cleveland Johnson (Ed.): Orphei Organi Antiqui. Essays in Honor of Harald Vogel . Westfield Center, Ithaca 2006, ISBN 0-9778400-0-X .
  • Cleveland Johnson: The First All-India Music Conferences and the advent of modern Indian musicology . In: Zdravko Blažeković, Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie (ed.): Music's Intellectual History . Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-932765-05-2 , pp. 551-557 .
  • Girolamo Frescobaldi: Fiori musicali . In: Calvert Johnson (Ed.): Music's Intellectual History . Wayne Leupold Editions, Colfax 2008 (with contributions from Cleveland Johnson).
  • Cleveland Johnson: Ems-Dollart Region . In: Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Eds.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , pp. 170-172 ( online ).
  • Cleveland Johnson: tablature . In: Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Eds.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , pp. 555-558 .
  • Cleveland Johnson (Ed.): Heinrich Scheidemann: 12 organ intavolations . 3 volumes. Heinrichshofen Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1990–1993.
  • A Keyboard Diminution Manual in Bártfa Ms. 27: Keyboard Figuration in the Time of Scheidt . In: Church, Stage, and Studio. Music and its Contexts in Seventeenth-Century Germany . UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor 1990, pp. 279-347.
  • Cleveland Johnson: Vocal Compositions in German Organ Tablatures, 1550-1650. A Catalog and Commentary in the series Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities . Garland Publishing, New York 1989, ISBN 082402012X .
  • Cleveland Johnson: New German Organ Tablature. Its rise and demise . In: Charles Brenton Fisk. Essays in his Honor . The Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies, Easthampton 1987, ISBN 978-0961675516 , pp. 93-109.
  • Cleveland Johnson: Keyboard Intabulations Preserved in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century German Organ Tablatures. A Catalog and Commentary . Garland Publishing, New York 1989 (Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities).
  • Cleveland Johnson: A Modern Approach to the Historic Organ . In: Early Music . Vol. 8/2, April 1980, pp. 173-177.

Sound carrier

  • The Organ Works of Heinrich Scheidemann. Vol. 1 . Calcante Recordings. CAL-023. 1999. 2 CD (Cleveland Johnson and Claudia Heberlein Johnson in Stade / St. Cosmae, Tangermünde and Wellesley)
  • The Organ Works of Heinrich Scheidemann. Vol. 2 . Calcante Recordings. CAL-024. 1999. 2 CD (Cleveland Johnson and Claudia Heberlein Johnson in Stade / St. Cosmae, Tangermünde and Wellesley)
  • The Organ Works of Heinrich Scheidemann. Vol. 3 . Calcante Recordings. CAL-025. 2003. 2 CD (Cleveland Johnson and Claudia Heberlein Johnson in Stade / St. Cosmae, Tangermünde and Wellesley)
  • Italian solo music around 1630 . Recreation. TGS 302. 1982. LP (works by D. Castello, GB Fontana, C. Merula, A. Piccinini, G. Frescobaldi)
  • Samuel Scheidt: "I call you"; from the Lüneburg tablatures: “O Lamm Gottes”, “O wir poor sins” (with Groningse Bachvereniging: Johannespassion by Christoph Demantius), 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prof. Emeritus Cleveland Johnson Named Director of the National Music Museum , accessed January 23, 2014.
  2. ↑ watsonfellowship.org: past directors , accessed on August 5, 2015.
  3. ^ National Music Museum appoints new director , accessed January 23, 2014.
  4. ^ Morris Museum announces appointment of Cleveland T. Johnson as Executive Director , accessed October 11, 2017.
  5. ^ DePauw University: DePauw Students & Professor Return from Research Project in South India. Retrieved August 5, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Cleveland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnson, Cleve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American organist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1955