Elliot Forbes
20th century American conductor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elliot Forbes , known as "El", was an American conductor and musicologist noted for his Beethoven scholarship. Life and career Forbes came from a Boston Brahmin family; his father, Edward W. Forbes, was the director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. He attended Harvard, receiving a BA in 1941 and an MA in 1947, both in music; he studied with Walter Piston, and while he was a graduate student, he was assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club. From 1947 to 58, he taught at Princeton University, but in 1958 he returned to Harvard and remained there for the rest of his life as Fanny Peabody Professor of Music
Elliot Forbes's Published Works
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- Thayer's life of Beethoven (1964) (62)
- THE MUSIC OF RANDALL THOMPSON (1949) (2)
- Symphony No. 5 in C minor : an authoritative score, the sketches, historical background, analysis, views and comments (1971) (1)
- Missa Mater Patris. For Four-Part Chorus of Men's Voices (1967) (0)
- Beethoven as a Choral Composer (1970) (0)
- Review: Beethoven. Biography of a Genius by George R. Marek; Ludwig van Beethoven by Joseph Schmidt-Görg, Hans Schmidt; Beethoven. The Last Decade, 1817-1827 by Martin Cooper; The Authentic English Editions of Beethoven by Alan Tyson (1970) (0)
- G. Wallace Woodworth (1902-1969) (1970) (0)
- Thayer-Dieters-Riemann-Krehbiel-Forbes (1965) (0)
- Review: The Collected Correspondence and London Note-Books of Joseph Haydn by H. C. Robbins Landon, Joseph Haydn (1961) (0)
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