Elliot Forbes

El ( Liot ) Forbes ( born August 30, 1917 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, † January 10, 2006 ) was an American musicologist.

Life

Forbes taught from 1947 to 1958 at Princeton University, and then moved on to Harvard University, where he held the post of Fanny Peabody Professor of Music until his retirement in 1984. In the 1960s, he headed the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society. Forbes became known, with which he auswies primarily for his revision of the Beethoven biography of Alexander Wheelock Thayer as Beethoven expert.

  • Thayer's Life of Beethoven, revised and ed by Elliot Forbes, 2 vols, Princeton 1964
  • The Choral Music of Beethoven, New York 1969

Papers

  • A Neglected Work in Beethoven 's Choral Music: The Funeral Cantata, in: Essays on Music in Honor of Archibald Thompson Davison, Cambridge 1957, pp. 253-261
  • " Headlong down, millions ", in: Studies in Music History: Essays for Oliver Strunk, ed. by Harold Powers, Princeton, 1968, pp. 449-457
  • Only he who knows longing: An Example of a Goethe Lyric Set to Music, in: Words and Music: The Scholar 's View; A Medley of Problems and Solutions Compiled in Honour of A. Tillman Merritt by Sundry Hands, ed. by Laurence Berman, Cambridge 1972, p 59-82
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