Elliot Forbes
El (liot) Forbes (born August 30, 1917 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , † January 10, 2006 ibid) was an American musicologist .
Life
Forbes taught from 1947 to 1958 at Princeton University and then moved to Harvard University , where he held the position of Fanny Peabody Professor of Music until his retirement in 1984 . In the 1960s he directed the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society . Forbes was best known for his revision of the Beethoven biography by Alexander Wheelock Thayer , with which he identified himself as a Beethoven expert. In 1965 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Books
- Thayer 's Life of Beethoven , revised and ed. By Elliot Forbes, 2 volumes, Princeton 1964
- The Choral Music of Beethoven , New York 1969
Essays
- A Neglected Work in Beethoven's Choral Music: The Funeral Cantata , in: Essays on Music in Honor of Archibald Thompson Davison , Cambridge 1957, pp. 253-261
- "Fall down, millions" , in: Studies in Music History: Essays for Oliver Strunk , ed. by Harold Powers, Princeton, 1968, pp. 449-457
- Only those who know longing: An Example of a Goethe Lyric Set to Music , in: Words and Music: The Scholar's View; A Medley of Problems and Solutions Compiled in Honor of A. Tillmann Merritt by Sundry Hands , ed. by Laurence Berman, Cambridge 1972, pp. 59-82
literature
- Martin Anderson, Elliot Forbes 1917-2006 , in: The Beethoven Journal , Vol. 21, No. 2 (Winter 2006), pp. 2f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forbes, Elliot |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Forbes, El |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 2006 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, Massachusetts |