Maynard Solomon (1930–2020)
Autor de Mozart: A Life
Sobre El Autor
Maynard Elliott Solomon was a musicologist and record producer. He was born on January 5, 1930 in Manhattan. His family later moved to Brooklyn. When he was young, he worked in his father's art supply store. He played the piano and studied the cello. In 1950, he earned a BA from Brooklyn College, mostrar más CUNY. He pursued his graduate studies at Columbia University, 1950-1952. Also, in 1950, he co-founded Vanguard Records with his brother, Seymour Solomon. It was an influential label for not only classical music but folk and blues music as well. He is best known for his biographies of the classical composers, Beethoven, Mozart, and an article on Schubert. His works include, Beethoven (1973); Marxism and Art (1973); Beethoven Essays (1988); Franz Schubert and the Peacocks of Benvenuto Cellini (1989) (a research article in the book, 19th-Century Music); Mozart: A Life (1993); and Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination (2004). Maynard Solomon died on September 28. 2020 in Manhattan at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Solomon, Maynard Elliott
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1930-01-05
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2020-09-28
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- Lewy body dementia
- Lugares de residencia
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Educación
- Brooklyn College (MA - Music and English)
High School of Music and Art - Ocupaciones
- musicologist
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university professor emeritus
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- Vanguard Records (co-ounder)
City University of New York
Columbia University
Harvard University
Yale University
Juilliard School
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