Ralph Kirkpatrick : letters of the American harpsichordist and scholar

Author(s)

• Kirkpatrick, Ralph
• Kirkpatrick, Meredith

Bibliographic Information

Ralph Kirkpatrick : letters of the American harpsichordist and scholar

Ralph Kirkpatrick ; edited by Meredith Kirkpatrick

（Eastman studies in music, [v. 117]）

University of Rochester Press, 2014

Note

Publications by and about Ralph Kirkpatrick: p. [163]-171

Discography: p. [173]-175

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of letters to and from the eminent harpsichordist, scholar, and early-music pioneer Ralph Kirkpatrick provides a portrait of the musician from the beginning of his career in Paris in the 1930s to its end in the early 1980s. This collection of letters to and from the eminent harpsichordist, scholar, and early-music pioneer Ralph Kirkpatrick provides a portrait of the musician from the beginning of his career in Paris in the 1930s to its end in the early 1980s, offering new insights into his work and scholarship. The volume contains letters from Europe to his family as well as correspondence with harpsichord makers, performers, and composers, including Nadia Boulanger, Alexander Schneider, John Kirkpatrick, Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, John Challis, Kenneth Gilbert, Serge Koussevitzky, and Vincent Persichetti. In addition, two former students of Kirkpatrick, the guitarist Eliot Fisk and the harpsichordist Mark Kroll, write about their experiences studying with Kirkpatrick in a foreword and an afterword. The volume also includes a bibliography of publications by and about the musician, as well as a discography. MeredithKirkpatrick is a librarian and bibliographer at Boston University and is the niece of Ralph Kirkpatrick.

Table of Contents

Foreword: "The Glowing of Such Fire" -- A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick - Eliot Fisk Acknowledgments Introduction Selected Letters to Family Nadia Boulanger Alexander Mackay-Smith Wanda Landowska John Challis Serge Koussevitzky Oliver Strunk Roger Sessions Harold Spivacke Steinway & Sons New York Times Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge John Kirkpatrick Alexander Schneider Otto Luening Donald Boalch John Hamilton Thornton Wilder Lincoln Kirstein Arthur Mendel Edward Steuremann Frank Martin Olin Downes Albert Fuller Elliott Carter Quincy Porter Vincent Persichetti Henry Cowell Mel Powell Bengt Hambraeus Alec Hodson Paul Fromm Wolfgang Zuckermann Kenneth Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. George Young Colin Tilney Oliver Daniel Eliot Fisk Wilton Dillon William Dowd Meredith Kirkpatrick Afterword: Lessons with Kirkpatrick - Mark Kroll Appendix A: Publications by and about Ralph Kirkpatrick Appendix B: Ralph Kirkpatrick Discography Index

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Details

• NCID: BC17147384
• ISBN:
  • 9781580465014
• LCCN: 2014026618
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Rochester
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 186 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : ML417.K66
  • DC23 : 786.4092
  • DC23 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Kirkpatrick, Ralph -- Correspondence
  • LCSH : Harpsichordists -- United States -- Correspondence
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA27676296