Nancy B. Reich

Nancy Bassen Reich (born July 3, 1924 in New York City , † January 31, 2019 in Ossining , New York ) was an American musicologist .

Life

Nancy B. Reich studied at the High School of Music and Art (now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School ) and at Queens College in New York as well as at Columbia University and received her doctorate from New York University in 1972 with a thesis on Johann Friedrich Reichardt . She later taught at Manhattanville College and was visiting professor at Bard College and Williams College .

Her main work is the biography of Clara Schumann, first published in 1985 . It has been translated into German , Japanese , Chinese and Hebrew .

Most recently, an edition of Clara Schumann's youth diaries was published, which she developed together with Gerd Nauhaus .

1986: Deems-Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
1996: Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau

The Rudorff Collection , in: Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association , Volume 31 (1974), pp. 247-261
Louise Reichardt , in: Ars musica, musica scientia. Festschrift Heinrich Hüschen on his sixty-fifth birthday on March 2, 1980 , ed. von Detlef Altenburg , Cologne 1980, pp. 369–377
The creative partnership of Clara and Robert Schumann , in: 9. Robert-Schumann-Tage , 1984, pp. 43–52
Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms , in: Brahms and his World , Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, pp. 37-47
The songs of Clara Schumann , in: Brahms Studies , Volume 11 (1997), pp. 97-106
Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman , revised edition, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001
Robert Schumann's Music in New York City, 1848–1898 , in: Schumanniana nova. Festschrift Gerd Nauhaus on his 60th birthday , Sinzig 2002, pp. 569–595

^ Who's Who of American Women. 20th edition (1997/98, printed 1996), p. 2199.
^ Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, Nancy B. Reich, Scholarly Champion of Clara Schumann, Dies at 94 , in: The New York Times , accessed April 30, 2019.