Maynard Solomon

Maynard Solomon ( born January 5, 1930) is an American music producer and co-founder of Vanguard Records as well as a renowned musicologist.

Career as a music producer

Together with his brother Seymour founded Maynard Solomon 1950 the company Vanguard Records. The label was one of the most important, in the 1950s, the blues and folk music were dedicated to. Solomon produced numerous albums for Vanguard and also wrote the introductions.

The first group, the Vanguard could be contracted were Pete Seeger & The Weavers. They helped the group to the commercial breakthrough with the recording of that concert they gave at Carnegie Hall in 1955. Solomon has also secured the rights for the Newport Folk Festival. Other artists were committed by Solomon, the black singer Paul Robeson and Joan Baez. In the late 1960s Vanguard had known some success with rock artists, especially with Country Joe and the Fish, now known as Country Joe McDonald.

Solomon was in those years a staunch supporter of Marxism and even published in 1973 the book Marxism and Art, which became a standard work. He lives in New York.

Career as a musicologist

Later, Solomon began a second career as a musicologist, especially as the author of biographies of musicians, including Mozart and Beethoven. In 1972, he formulated a hypothesis for the identification of Beethoven's Immortal Beloved, by which he attracted great attention. 1997 Solomon was a member of the International Musicology Society. His Mozart biography was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and received the Deems Taylor Award, as well as his biography of Beethoven and his studies of Charles Ives. His Beethoven essays in 1988 awarded the Otto Kinkeldey Award. In addition, Solomon has published several essays on psychoanalysis and some books on aesthetics. He was a visiting professor at the universities of Yale, Harvard and Columbia, and at the Juilliard School.

Discography (selection)

Publications

  • Maynard Solomon & Eric Schmidt, The Joan Baez Songbook, 1964
  • Joan Baez, Maynard Solomon & Eric Schmidt, Noel: The Joan Baez Songbook Christmas 1967
  • New Light on Beethoven 's Letter to an Unknown Woman, in: The Musical Quarterly, Vol 58 (1972 ), pp. 572-587
  • Marxism and Art: Essays Classic and Contemporary, ed with Historical and Critical Commentary by Maynard Solomon, New York: Knopf, 1973
  • Beethoven, New York: Schirmer Books, 1977
  • Myth, Creativity, Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Harry Slochower, ed by Maynard Solomon, with the assistance of Sophie Wilkins and Donald M. Kaplan, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1978
  • Beethoven Essays, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988
  • Mozart: A Life, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995
  • Economic Circumstances of the Beethoven House in Bonn Hold, in: Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol 50 (1997 ), pp. 331-351
  • Schubert 's "Unfinished " Symphony, in: 19th Century Music, Vol 21 (1997 ), pp. 111-133
  • "Beethoven " (1998)
  • Gerhard von Breuning, Memories of Beethoven, translated by Maynard Solomon, 2003
  • Schubert: Family Matters, in: 19th Century Music, Vol 28 (2004 ), 1, pp. 3-14
  • Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003
  • The NPR Listener 's Encyclopedia of Classical Music, 2006 by Ted Libbey ( Maynard Solomon Contributed articles)
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