Robert Strassburg | |
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| Born | Robert Strassburg August 30, 1915[1] Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | October 25, 2003 (aged 88)[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Conductor, composer, musicologist |
| Years active | 1945–1997 |
| External audio | |
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 You may hear Robert Strassburg conducting the Period Choral Society performing sacred choral music by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in 1957 Here on archive.org | |
| You may hear excerpts from Strassburg's opera "Chelm" Here on Milken Archive |
Robert Strassburg (August 30, 1915 – October 25, 2003) was a leading American conductor, composer, musicologist and music educator of the twentieth century. His studies in music were completed under the supervision of such leading composers as Igor Stravinsky, Walter Piston and Paul Hindemith, with whom he studied at Tanglewood.[2][3][4] His formal academic studies were completed at the New England Conservatory of Music and Harvard University, where he obtained a fellowship in composition. He also completed a doctorate in Fine Arts at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. As a musicologist, Dr. Strassburg is regarded as a leading authority on the compositions of the composer Ernest Bloch.[5]
- ^ a b "Monitor". Entertainment Weekly. No. 1264. June 21, 2013. p. 26.
- ^ Composer's Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers and Their Students. Pfitzinger, Scott. Rowman & Littlefield, London UK & New York USA 2017 P. 522 (ISBN 9781442272248).
- ^ Pfitzinger, Scott (March 2017). Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442272255.
- ^ "Strassburg, Robert". Milken Archive of Jewish Music.
- ^ Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Cenential Edition, Nicolas Slonimsky, editor, Schirmer, 2001.