Pauline Alderman

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Pauline Alderman (1911)

Pauline Alderman (born January 16, 1893 in Lafayette , Oregon , † October 11, 1983 in Los Angeles ) was an American musicologist and composer.

Alderman received training in piano and organ playing as well as in English and German literature in her youth. Since 1916 she taught English literature at McMinnville Junior High School . Since 1918 she taught history and music in Portland and attended summer music courses at the University of California at Berkeley . She then became a student of Carolyn Alchin , with whom she studied between 1920 and 1923 while she also taught at the Ellison White School , a newly established conservatory in Portland.

From 1923 she attended the New York Institute of Musical Art (later the Juilliard School of Music ), where she was a student of Percy Goetschius . From 1924 she taught piano, music theory and music history at Pomona College in Claremont / California . From 1928 to 1930 she had a contract at the University of Washington , after which she taught music history and literature at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. In 1935 she had lessons from Arnold Schönberg .

From 1938 Alderman stayed in Europe, where she studied at the University of Edinburgh with Donald Francis Tovey and at the University of Strasbourg . In 1940 she returned to Los Angeles, where she taught again at USC and took composition lessons with Ernst Toch and Lucien Cailliet . In 1946 she received her doctorate from USC with the thesis Antoine de Boësset and the Air de Cour . From 1952 until her retirement in 1960 she held the chair of music history here.

In addition to songs, Alderman composed the opera Bombastes Furioso (1938) and the operetta Come On Over (1941).

Since 1985 the International Congress on Women in Music has given the Pauline Alderman Award for musicological and journalistic work on women in music.

Fonts

  • Antoine Boesset and the Air de Cour , dissertation, 1946
  • A Survey of Vocal Literature (1952)
  • Theme and Variations (1943-45)
  • Pioneers of Music (1950)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kenneth H. Marcus: Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016, ISBN 978-1-107-06499-7 , pp. 63-66 .
  2. ↑ Information from Stanford University
  3. ^ Pauline Alderman Awards website
personal data
SURNAME Alderman, Pauline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musicologist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Lafayette , Oregon , USA
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1983
Place of death Los Angeles , California , USA