Donald W. MacArdle
Donald Wales MacArdle (born July 3, 1897 in Quincy , Massachusetts , † December 23, 1964 in Littleton , Colorado ) was an American engineer and musicologist .
Life
MacArdle originally studied chemistry and worked as an engineer for most of his life. He also studied music and musicology, the latter at New York University with Curt Sachs . He later wrote music reviews for a Boston newspaper and an American music journal. He also directed several amateur orchestras. Of his publications, his essays and books on Ludwig van Beethoven are particularly valuable.
Books
- with Ludwig Misch : New Beethoven Letters. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 1957
- An Index to Beethoven's Conversation Books. Detroit 1962
- Anton Felix Schindler : Beethoven as I Knew Him , ed. by Donald W. MacArdle, Faber & Faber, London 1966
- Beethoven abstracts , posthumously ed. by S. Pogodda, Detroit 1973
Essays
- A Check-List of Beethoven's Chamber Music. In: Music & Letters. Volume 27, 1946, pp. 44-59, 83-101, 156-174 and 251-257
- Beethoven's Quartet in B flat, opus 130. In: The Music Review. Volume 8, 1947, pp. 11-24
- Beethoven, Artaria, and the C Major Quintet. In: The Musical Quarterly. Volume 34, 1948, pp. 567–574 (About the dispute between Beethoven and the Artaria music publisher over the illegal edition of op. 29)
- An Unpublished Beethoven Letter. In: Journal of the American Musicological Society. Volume 2, 1949, pp. 204f.
- The Family van Beethoven. In: The Musical Quarterly. Volume 35, 1949, pp. 528-540
- with K. Schultze, Five Unfamiliar Beethoven Letters . In: The Musical Quarterly , Volume 37, 1951, pp. 490-500
- with Ludwig Misch : Minor Beethoveniana. In: The Musical Quarterly. Volume 41, 1955, pp. 446-465 and Volume 46, 1960, pp. 41-55
- Four Unfamiliar Beethoven Documents. In: Music and Letters. Volume 36, 1955, pp. 331–340 (About Beethoven's contract with Breitkopf & Härtel from 1825, receipts from contracts with his patron Archduke Rudolph and Beethoven's receipt for a fee of 50 pounds sterling for the 9th symphony from the Philharmonic Society London )
- Beethoven and George Thomson . In: Music & Letters. Volume 37, 1956, pp. 27-49
- Beethoven and the Bach Family . In: Music & Letters. Volume 38, 1957, pp. 353-358
- Beethoven and the Czernys. In: Monthly Musical Record. Volume 88, 1958, pp. 124-134
- The Brentano Family in its Relationship with Beethoven. In: The Music Review. Volume 19, 1958, pp. 6-19
- Beethoven and Grillparzer . In: Music & Letters. Volume 40, 1959, pp. 44-55
- Beethoven and Haydn . In: Monthly Musical Record. Volume 89, 1959, pp. 203-207
- Beethoven and Handel . In: Music & Letters. Volume 41, 1960, pp. 33-37
- Beethoven and the Philharmonic Society of London. In: The Music Review. Volume 21, 1960, pp. 1-7
- First Editions of Beethoven Published in England. In: Monthly Musical Record. Volume 90, 1960, pp. 228-232
- Beethoven, Matthisson , Kotzebue and Gaveaux . In: The Music Review. Volume 22, 1961, pp. 288-293
- Anton Schindler , Friend of Beethoven , in: The Music Review , Volume 24, 1963, pp. 50-74
- The Artaria Editions of Beethoven's C Major Quintet . In: Journal of the American Musicological Society , Volume 16, 1963, pp. 254-257
- Beethoven and Shakespeare . In: The Musical Times , Volume 105, 1964, pp. 260f. and 439
- Beethoven and Ferdinand Ries . In: Music & Letters. Volume 46, 1965, pp. 23-34
- Beethoven and Karl Holz . In: The music research. Volume 20, 1967, pp. 19-29
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SURNAME | MacArdle, Donald W. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | MacArdle, Donald Wales (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer and musicologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1897 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Quincy , Massachusetts |
DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1964 |
Place of death | Littleton , Colorado |