Carleton Sprague Smith
American historian, musicologist and writer
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- Bachelors Music University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Music University of California, Berkeley
- PhD Musicology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carleton Sprague Smith was an American music librarian and musicologist. Early years and education Smith was born in New York City to Clarence Bishop Smith, an admiralty lawyer and Catherine Cook Smith, author and patron of the arts. In 1917, at age twelve Smith took up study of the flute with Georges Barrère at the Institute of Musical Art . For high school he attended the Hackley School from 1920—1922. Upon graduation, he went to France to study French at École Yersin and flute with Louis Fleury in Paris. In 1923 he entered Harvard University, while studying flute with Georges Laurent, principle flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Though he began with an interest in French, he gravitated to the study of Spanish and Portuguese literature and history. He graduated Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1927 and an Master of Arts degree in 1928. In 1928 he began study at the University of Vienna, obtaining his doctorate in 1930 with his dissertation Ein Vetternzwist im Hause Habsburg concerning rivalries between seventeenth-century Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs. The same year he served as vice-chairman of the Committee on Inter-American Relations in the field of music for the United States Department of State.
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