Franklin B. Zimmerman

Franklin Bershir Zimmerman (* 1923 ) is an American musicologist and conductor . He has worked and published in particular in the field of baroque music, primarily through the composer Henry Purcell . Zimmerman compiled a complete inventory of Purcell's works , which is considered to be one of the most crucial contributions to Purcell research ( one of the most crucial contributions to Purcell research ). Each work in the directory has a Z number derived from its surname.

Life

Zimmerman was born in Wauneta, Kansas and graduated from the University of Southern California with a Ph.D. PhD. He was Professor of Music at Dartmouth College (1964–1967), the University of Kentucky (1967–1968) and the University of Pennsylvania from 1968 until his retirement. In 1968 he founded the Pennsylvania Pro Musica ensemble .

Fonts

• Franklin B. Zimmerman: Purcell's Handwriting . In: Imogen Holst (Ed.): Henry Purcell 1659-1695 Essays On His Music . Oxford University Press, 1959, Chapter 9 (English) archive.org

literature

• David Cummings (Ed.): Zimmerman, Franklin. In: International who's who in music . Routledge, 2000, ISBN 0-948875-53-4 . P. 711.
• R. Manning: Guides to research on three early masters. In: Music and Letters , 1990, Volume 7, N. 4, pp. 552-554.
• Michael Kennedy Joyce Bourne (Eds.): Zimmerman, Franklin Bershir. In: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford University Press, 2007.
• It's Sweet 16 for Zimmerman's Pro Musica. In: Philadelphia Daily News , Sept. 30, 1983.

Web links

• Emeritus Professors. ( Memento from October 4, 2015 on the Internet Archive ) University of Pennsylvania, Department of Music
• Works by Franklin B. Zimmerman in WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manning (1990) p. 552.
2. ↑ Cummings (2000) p. 711.
3. ↑ Kennedy and Bourne (2007)
4. ^ Philadelphia Daily News , Sep. 30, 1983.