Oliver Strunk

William Oliver Strunk (* March 22, 1901, † 24 February 1980) was an American musicologist and educator -.

Strunk was since 1928 Employees of the music department of the Library of Congress, where he became manager in 1934. In 1935, he became president of the Music Library Association. From 1937 he was professor of music at Princeton University. In 1950 he published his major work Source Readings in Music History from Classical Antiquity through the Romantic Era. From 1961 he headed the publication of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae. After his retirement in 1966 he devoted himself to the Italian Monastero di Santa Maria di Grottaferrata Esarchico the investigation of Byzantine music.

Works

  • Carl Engel / O. Strunk: Music from the days of George Washington, 1931
  • Source readings in music history from classical antiquity through the romantic era, 1950
  • Source readings in music history / Selected and annotated by Oliver Strunk, 1955
  • Studies in music history; Essays, 1968
  • Essays on music in the Western World, 1974
  • Essays on music in the Byzantine world, 1977

Swell

  • Remembering Oliver Strunk, teacher and scholar, Pendragon Press, 2005 ISBN 9781576471029
  • Musicologist
  • Music teacher
  • University teachers ( Princeton University)
  • Americans
  • Born 1901
  • Died in 1980
  • Man
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