Donald W. MacArdle

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Donald Wales MacArdle (born July 3, 1897 in Quincy , Massachusetts , † December 23, 1964 in Littleton , Colorado ) was an American engineer and musicologist .

Life

MacArdle originally studied chemistry and worked as an engineer for most of his life. He also studied music and musicology, the latter at New York University with Curt Sachs . He later wrote music reviews for a Boston newspaper and an American music journal. He also directed several amateur orchestras. Of his publications, his essays and books on Ludwig van Beethoven are particularly valuable.

Books

  • with Ludwig Misch : New Beethoven Letters. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 1957
  • An Index to Beethoven's Conversation Books. Detroit 1962
  • Anton Felix Schindler : Beethoven as I Knew Him , ed. by Donald W. MacArdle, Faber & Faber, London 1966
  • Beethoven abstracts , posthumously ed. by S. Pogodda, Detroit 1973

Essays

  • A Check-List of Beethoven's Chamber Music. In: Music & Letters. Volume 27, 1946, pp. 44-59, 83-101, 156-174 and 251-257
  • Beethoven's Quartet in B flat, opus 130. In: The Music Review. Volume 8, 1947, pp. 11-24
  • Beethoven, Artaria, and the C Major Quintet. In: The Musical Quarterly. Volume 34, 1948, pp. 567–574 (About the dispute between Beethoven and the Artaria music publisher over the illegal edition of op. 29)
  • An Unpublished Beethoven Letter. In: Journal of the American Musicological Society. Volume 2, 1949, pp. 204f.
  • The Family van Beethoven. In: The Musical Quarterly. Volume 35, 1949, pp. 528-540
  • with K. Schultze, Five Unfamiliar Beethoven Letters . In: The Musical Quarterly , Volume 37, 1951, pp. 490-500
  • with Ludwig Misch : Minor Beethoveniana. In: The Musical Quarterly. Volume 41, 1955, pp. 446-465 and Volume 46, 1960, pp. 41-55
  • Four Unfamiliar Beethoven Documents. In: Music and Letters. Volume 36, 1955, pp. 331–340 (About Beethoven's contract with Breitkopf & Härtel from 1825, receipts from contracts with his patron Archduke Rudolph and Beethoven's receipt for a fee of 50 pounds sterling for the 9th symphony from the Philharmonic Society London )
  • Beethoven and George Thomson . In: Music & Letters. Volume 37, 1956, pp. 27-49
  • Beethoven and the Bach Family . In: Music & Letters. Volume 38, 1957, pp. 353-358
  • Beethoven and the Czernys. In: Monthly Musical Record. Volume 88, 1958, pp. 124-134
  • The Brentano Family in its Relationship with Beethoven. In: The Music Review. Volume 19, 1958, pp. 6-19
  • Beethoven and Grillparzer . In: Music & Letters. Volume 40, 1959, pp. 44-55
  • Beethoven and Haydn . In: Monthly Musical Record. Volume 89, 1959, pp. 203-207
  • Beethoven and Handel . In: Music & Letters. Volume 41, 1960, pp. 33-37
  • Beethoven and the Philharmonic Society of London. In: The Music Review. Volume 21, 1960, pp. 1-7
  • First Editions of Beethoven Published in England. In: Monthly Musical Record. Volume 90, 1960, pp. 228-232
  • Beethoven, Matthisson , Kotzebue and Gaveaux . In: The Music Review. Volume 22, 1961, pp. 288-293
  • Anton Schindler , Friend of Beethoven , in: The Music Review , Volume 24, 1963, pp. 50-74
  • The Artaria Editions of Beethoven's C Major Quintet . In: Journal of the American Musicological Society , Volume 16, 1963, pp. 254-257
  • Beethoven and Shakespeare . In: The Musical Times , Volume 105, 1964, pp. 260f. and 439
  • Beethoven and Ferdinand Ries . In: Music & Letters. Volume 46, 1965, pp. 23-34
  • Beethoven and Karl Holz . In: The music research. Volume 20, 1967, pp. 19-29
personal data
SURNAME MacArdle, Donald W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacArdle, Donald Wales (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Quincy , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1964
Place of death Littleton , Colorado