William H. Scheide

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William Hurd Scheide , also Bill , (born January 6, 1914 in Philadelphia , † November 14, 2014 in Princeton ) was an American musicologist and patron.

Life

William H. Scheide's grandfather William T. Scheide (1847–1907) was a pioneer in the oil industry. He became wealthy in the first oil boom and left the business at the age of 42 to devote himself to his hobby as a book collector. His son John H. Scheide (1875-1942) gave money for charitable purposes to the Presbyterian Church and Princeton University . He expanded the book collection to a veritable library at his residence in Titusville , Pennsylvania . a. a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence , the Blickling homilies, and part of the 967 papyrus .

William Hurd Scheide grew up in Titusville, the "birthplace of the oil industry". He studied at Princeton, since there was no music professorship there, history and graduated in 1936. He then did a master's in musicology at Columbia University . He worked as a lecturer in music history at the Cornell University Music Institute . Scheide was married three times and has three children.

Acquired from WH Scheide:
Elias Gottlob Haußmann: Johann Sebastian Bach (the second original from 1748)

After the death of his father in 1942, he took over the property and the book collection and added baroque manuscripts to it. The Scheide Library moved into a building he donated on the Princeton University campus. On the basis of his book collection with 47 volumes of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, he deepened his musicological research on Bach's vocal compositions.

In 1946 he founded the music ensemble "Bach Aria Group" in New York City , which was dedicated to the performance and maintenance of JS Bach's music, and employed a number of outstanding singers and instrumentalists for the ensemble with his money, including Eileen Farrell , Maureen Forrester , Erich Itor Kahn , Jan Peerce and Jennie Tourel . The ensemble lasted until 1962, with changes in the line-up.

Scheide founded the “Scheide Professorship for Music History” at Princeton University. He bequeathed the Princeton University scabbard library. He bequeathed the portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach by Elias Gottlob Haußmann, which he acquired in 1952, to the Leipzig Bach Archive , to whose board of trustees he had been a member since 2001. The picture hangs in the Bach Museum Leipzig and was shown at the opening of the 2015 Bach Festival in the Nikolaikirche .

Scheide was an important donor to the civil rights movement in the United States. With his financial aid to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Aid Fund , the Brown v. Board of Education won by attorney Thurgood Marshall . In the last twenty years of his life alone, he and his wife donated US $ 6 million to the NAACP. Since 1994 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • A stemma of Matthew 22.1 in Latin incunabula bibles . In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1962, pp. 117–121
  • A speculation concerning Gutenberg's early plans for his Bible . In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1973, pp. 129-139
  • William H. Scheide: Bach vs. Brook . In: Wolfgang Rehm (Ed.): Bachiana et alia musicologica: Festschrift for Alfred Dürr 's 65th birthday on March 3, 1983 . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1983, pp. 234–243
  • William H. Scheide: Some Dreams and Realizations in Fifteenth-Century Mainz . In: Manfred von Arnim (Ed.): Festschrift Otto Schäfer : on his 75th birthday on June 29, 1987 . Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1987, pp. 179-190

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d William Yardley: William H. Scheide, 100, Philanthropist, Is Dead , in: New York Times , November 23, 2014
  2. ↑ Michael Fleming: Bach Aria Group . In: H. Wiley Hitchcock ; Stanley Sadie : The New Grove Dictionary of American Music . London: Macmillan, 1986
  3. ↑ Bach returns home , near the city of Leipzig, April 29, 2015
  4. ^ Member History: William H. Scheide. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Scheide, William H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scabbard, William Hurd; Scabbard, Bill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musicologist and patron
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2014
Place of death Princeton, New Jersey