Kerala J. Snyder

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Kerala Johnson Snyder (* 1936 ) is an American musicologist , organist and retired high school teacher of the Eastman School of Music .

Life

Snyder is a graduate of Wellesley College (BA) and Harvard Divinity School . She received her Ph.D. at Yale University . From 1969 to 1981 she taught at Yale, from 1981 to 1987 at the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford and from 1987 at the Eastman School of Music.

She is an expert in North German and North European baroque music, especially organ music , and wrote the authoritative biography of Dietrich Buxtehude . In 1988, together with the musicologist from Uppsala University Erik Kjellberg , she started an initiative to digitize the dowel collection , which was to be made accessible to the public via the Internet. In September 2006, the database was presented to the public as part of a musicological symposium in the Gustavianum Museum and a concert.

Honors

  • 1991 Buxtehude Prize of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck

Works

  • Dieterich Buxtehude: organist in Lübeck. Schirmer Books, New York 1987, ISBN 0-02-873080-1 .
German: Dieterich Buxtehude. Life, work, performance practice. Translation of the 2nd, revised edition from 2007. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7618-1836-7 .
  • als (Ed.): The Organ as a Mirror of Its Time. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-514415-5 .

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SURNAME Snyder, Kerala J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Snyder, Kerala Johnson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musicologist, organist and professor emeritus at the Eastman School of Music
DATE OF BIRTH 1936