Edward Lowinsky

Edward Elias Lowinsky (born January 12, 1908 in Stuttgart ; died October 11, 1985 ) was an American musicologist of German origin.

Life

From 1923 to 1928 Lowinsky studied piano , composition and conducting in Stuttgart at the University of Music and Performing Arts . In 1933 he received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg with a dissertation on Orlando di Lasso . He lived in Holland from 1933 to 1939, but moved to the United States in 1940 and obtained citizenship in 1947. He taught at Black Mountain College (1942–47), Queens College, New York (1947–56) and at the University of California (1956–61). From 1961 he taught at the University of Chicago . In 1971 he chaired the conference on Josquin des Prez . In 1973 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He wrote important works on Renaissance - composers and was an important figure in redefining the standards for the critical edition of music manuscripts. Most of his published articles were collected in Music in the Culture of the Renaissance (1989) by his wife, musicologist Bonnie J. Blackburn (* 1939).

Fonts (selection)

• The Antwerp motet book Orlando di Lasso's and its connections to the motets of the Dutch contemporaries (dissertation, U. of Heidelberg, 1933)
• Secret Chromatic Art in the Netherlands Motet (New York, 1946)
• Tonality and Atonality in Sixteenth-Century Music (Berkeley, 1961)
• Josquin des Prez: New York 1971 (with BJ Blackburn; proceedings of an international symposium)
• Cipriano de Rore's Venus Motet: its Poetic and Pictorial Sources (Provo, UT, 1986)
• Music in the Culture of the Renaissance and other Essays , ed. Bonnie J. Blackburn (Chicago, 1989)
• A Correspondence of Renaissance Musicians (with Bonnie J. Blackburn and Clement A. Miller; Oxford, 1990)

literature

• Lowinsky, Edward Elias , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 754