Herbert Weinstock
Herbert Weinstock (born November 16, 1905 in Milwaukee ; died October 21, 1971 in New York City ) was an American music critic and music historian.
Life
Herbert Weinstock dropped out of the University of Chicago and worked as an independent bookseller for three years. He moved to New York and wrote two music books with his then friend Wallace Brockway. In 1943 Weinstock was employed by the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house , where he edited the music program for the next few years and also published his own books. His musician biographies have been published several times. The book about Vincenzo Bellini was published posthumously, a manuscript about Christoph Willibald Gluck is in his estate in the New York Public Library .
Weinstock has written music reviews for The Saturday Review , The New York Times, and Opera magazine . He authored over 300 encyclopedic articles in the Encyclopedia Americana .
Weinstock translated the fictional artist biography Jusep Torres Campalans from the Spanish essays by the Mexican composer Carlos Chávez and Max Aub , as well as Francesco Carletti's world tour from the Italian and essays by the composer Pierre Boulez from the French.
Fonts (selection)
- with Wallace Brockway: Men of Music: Their Lives, Times, and Achievements . Simon and Schuster, 1939
- with Wallace Brockway: The Opera, a History of its Creation and Performance . Simon and Schuster, 1941
- Tchaikovsky . Alfred A. Knopf, 1943
- Trade . Alfred A. Knopf, 1946
- Chopin: The Man and His Music . Alfred A. Knopf, 1949
- Music as an Art . Harcourt Brace, 1953
- with Irene Gass: Through an Opera Glass . Abelard-Schuman, 1958 book for young people
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Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris and Vienna in the first half of the Nineteenth Century . Pantheon Books, 1963
- Donizetti and the world of opera in Italy, Paris and Vienna in the first half of the nineteenth century . Translation by Kurt Michaelis. Adliswil: Kunzelmann, 1983
- What Music Is . Doubleday, 1966
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Rossini . Alfred A. Knopf, 1968
- Rossini: a biography . Translation by Kurt Michaelis. Adliswil: Kunzelmann, 1981
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Vincenzo Bellini: His Life and His Operas . Alfred A. Knopf, 1971
- Vincenzo Bellini: his life and his operas . Translation by Kurt Michaelis. Adliswil: Kunzelmann, 1985
- Translations
- Carlos Chávez : Toward a New Music: Music and Electricity , WW Norton & Co., 1937
- Francesco Carletti : My Voyage Around the World . Pantheon Books, 1964
- Pierre Boulez : Notes of an Apprenticeship . Alfred A. Knopf, 1968
- Edmond Michotte: Richard Wagner's visit to Rossini (Paris 1860) and An Evening at Rossini's in Beau-Sejour (Passy 1858) . University of Chicago Press, 1968
- Jacques Chailley : The Magic Flute, Masonic Opera . Alfred A. Knopf, 1971
Web links
- Literature by and about Herbert Weinstock in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Herbert Weinstock in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Max Loppert, Amnon Shiloah: Weinstock, Herbert , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 2007
- Herbert Weinstock, Biographer Of Many Composers, Is Dead , obituary, The New York Times, October 23, 1971
- Alan Rich: Bel canto was his stock ‐ in ‐ trade , Bellini review, The New York Times, November 14, 1971
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weinstock, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American music historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1971 |
| Place of death | New York City |