Winthrop Sargeant

Winthrop Sargeant ( born December 10, 1903 in San Francisco, † August 15 1986 in Salisbury / Connecticut ) was an American violinist and music critic.

Sargeant 1922 was eighteen years old, the youngest member of the San Francisco Symphony. In 1926 he went to New York, where he was first a member of the New York Symphony and in 1928 the New York Philharmonic.

In 1930 he ended his active career in music to devote himself to music criticism and science. From 1937 to 1945 he wrote music criticism for Time magazine, then to 1949 for Life Magazine. From 1949 to 1972 he wrote the music column for the The New Yorker.

He also wrote a number of music history and theory books, including Jazz: Hot and Hybrid ( 1938), Geniuses, goddesses, and people (1949 ), Listening to music (1958 ), Jazz: a history (1964) and Divas (1973 ), an autobiography (in spite of myself: a personal memoir, 1970) and published in 1979 a translation of the Bhagavad Gita.

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  • Encyclopaedia Britannica - Winthrop Sargeant
  • Preface to Sargeants translation of the Bhagavad Gita, 25th edition, SUNY Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4384-2841-3, pp. XXIX
  • Americans
  • Music critic
  • Musicologist
  • Classical violinist
  • Born in 1903
  • Died in 1986
  • Man
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