Arthur Mendel (June 6, 1905 – October 14, 1979) was an American

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

, known as a Bach scholar. He was born in

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and died in

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Education

He graduated from

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in 1925 before going to study with

Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organis ...

in Paris.

Career

Mendel was an editor at G. Schirmer, Inc. (1930-1938), the journal of the

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(1940-1943) and Associated Music Publishers (1941-1943). For 31 years, Mendel taught at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

Literary works

* music critics on the "''

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''" (1930–1933) * editor of "'' The Bach Reader''", 1945 (with H. T. David) * ''Studies in the History of Musical Pitch'', 1968 * With Nathan Broder, translator of ''Mozart: His Character, His Work'' by

Alfred Einstein Alfred Einstein (December 30, 1880February 13, 1952) was a German-American musicologist and music editor. He was born in Munich, and fled Nazi Germany after Adolf Hitler, Hitler's ''Machtergreifung'', arriving in the United States by 1939. He is b ...

* Translator of 'Mozart's Choice of Keys' by Alfred Einstein

References

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