Michael Steinberg (music critic)

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Carl Michael Alfred Steinberg (born October 4, 1928 in Breslau ; died July 26, 2009 in Edina (Minnesota) ) was a German-American music critic.

Life

Michael Steinberg was the second son of the doctor Siegfried Steinberg (1876–1938) and the art critic Margarethe Cohn (1884–1977). His brother Frank, born in 1913, became a doctor and emigrated to the USA in 1938. In May 1939, Steinberg was brought to safety in England from the persecution of the German Jews on a Kindertransport , and his mother also managed to escape to England. In 1943 the two emigrated to the USA, where his mother worked as a journalist.

Steinberg studied musicology with Oliver Strunk , Alfred Einstein , Edward T. Cone and Milton Babbitt at Princeton University and then went to Italy for two years on a Fulbright scholarship . He received US citizenship in 1950. In 1953 he married the artist Jane Bonacker, they had two sons, the double bassist Sebastian Steinberg , born in 1959, was a member of the group Soul Coughing . His second marriage was to the violinist Jorja Fleezanis .

Steinberg taught music history from 1954 to 1964 at the Manhattan School of Music , as well as at other colleges on the east coast. Steinberg did his military service from 1955 to 1957 in the US Army , which deployed him in Germany. In 1964 he became a music critic for the Boston Globe . From 1976 he worked for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and wrote their programs. In 1979 he switched to the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra as artistic advisor . In the 1990s he was an advisor to the Minnesota Orchestra .

He has contributed to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , CD booklets, reviews, and books.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Symphony: A Listener's Guide . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995 ISBN 0-19-506177-2
  • The Concerto: A Listener's Guide . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998 ISBN 0-19-510330-0
  • Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-19-802921-7

literature

  • Steinberg, Michael , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1113

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steinberg, Margarete Cohn , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 660f.
personal data
SURNAME Steinberg, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinberg, Carl Michael Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American music critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2009
Place of death Edina (Minnesota)