Irving Kolodin

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Irving Kolodin

Irving Kolodin (born February 21, 1908 in New York City , † April 29, 1988 ibid) was an American music critic and music historian .

Kolodin grew up in Newark , New Jersey , where his father ran a book and stationery store. He began to deal with music at a young age. From 1927 to 1931 he studied at the Institute of Musical Art in New York. He then worked as an assistant to William James Henderson as a music critic for the New York Sun , then as the newspaper's chief critic until it was discontinued in 1950. From 1947 to 1982 he published reviews in the Saturday Review . After the magazine was discontinued, he continued to write for various periodicals. In the 1950s and 1960s in particular, he was one of the most influential music critics in the United States.

Kolodin became particularly known for his reviews of recordings of the works of classical composers, which appeared in a number of books. In addition, he was considered a proven expert on the history of the Metropolitan Opera , which he described in a standard work that had a number of editions from 1936 and was updated several times by him. He directed the musical selection on numerous records released by RCA . Kolodin also paid attention to jazz and wrote his autobiography Kingdom of Swing , first published in 1939, together with Benny Goodman .

In the 1970s, Kolodin was responsible for the selection of classical music for the first official music library of the White House . From 1968 to 1986 he taught at the Juilliard School in New York.

Kolodin was working on a new edition of his history of the New York Opera when he suffered a severe stroke in 1987 , of which he died in 1988.

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  • The Metropolitan Opera, 1883-1935. Oxford University Press, New York 1936. In expanded version: The Metropolitan Opera, 1883–1966. A candidate history. Knopf, New York 1966.
  • The Kingdom of Swing. Stackpole Sons, New York 1939 (with Benny Goodman). German-language edition: My way to jazz. An autobiography. Translated from English by Fritz Herdi . Sanssouci Verlag, Zurich 1961.
  • A Guide to Recorded Music. Doubleday, Dorian & Company, Garden City 1941.
  • Mozart on Records. The Four Corners, New York 1942.
  • The Saturday Review Home Book of Recorded Music and Sound Reproduction. Prentice-Hall, New York 1952 (with Edward Tatnall Canby and CG Burke).
  • Orchestral Music. Knopf, New York 1955.
  • The composer as listener. A Guide to Music. Horizon Press, New York 1958.
  • The Musical Life. Knopf, New York 1958.
  • The Interior Beethoven. A Biography of the Music. Knopf, New York 1975, ISBN 0-39446-626-6 .
  • The Opera Omnibus. Four Centuries of Critical Give and Take. Dutton, New York 1976, ISBN 0-84150-438-5 .
  • The Guide to Long-Playing Records. Vol. 1, Orchestral Music. Greenwood Press, Westwood 1978, ISBN 0-31320-297-4 .
  • In Quest of Music. A Journey in Time. Doubleday, Garden City 1980, ISBN 0-38513-061-9 .

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SURNAME Kolodin, Irving
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music critic and music historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1988
Place of death New York City