John Kirkpatrick

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John Kirkpatrick (born March 18, 1905 in New York City , † November 8, 1991 in Ithaca ) was an American pianist and musicologist .

John Kirkpatrick studied at Princeton University until 1926 . From 1925 he also studied piano with Nadia Boulanger at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau (each summer until 1928), and in 1926/27 at the École Normale de Musique de Paris . From 1928 to 1931 piano studies with Louta Nouneberg followed . In 1942 he became head of the department of music at Monticello College (Illinois). From 1943 to 1946 Kirkpatrick taught at Mount Holyoke College and was then appointed to the music faculty at Cornell University , whose director he was from 1949 to 1953, and from 1953 to 1957 director of the local Chapel Choir. In 1968 he became curator of the Ives Collection at Yale University . In 1973 he retired.

Kirkpatrick premiered numerous piano works by American composers, including Aaron Copland and Carl Ruggles . The New York premiere of Charles Ives' Concord sonata in 1939 earned him special attention (after its semi-public premiere in 1938) . After Ives' death in 1954, Kirkpatrick took over the cataloging of his manuscripts. He was also the editor of numerous compositions by Ives.

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SURNAME Kirkpatrick, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION classical pianist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1991
Place of death Ithaca (City, New York)