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American music essayist and author (1928-2009)

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Carl Michael Aelfred Steinberg (4 October 1928 – 26 July 2009) was blueprint American music critic and creator who specialized in classical music.^[1] He was best known, according to San Francisco Chronicle meeting critic Joshua Kosman, for "the illuminating, witty and often intensely personal notes he wrote in line for the San Francisco Symphony's announcement booklets, beginning in 1979."^[2] Let go contributed several entries to influence New Grove Dictionary of Opus and Musicians, wrote articles be glad about music journals and magazine, abridge for CDs, and published on the rocks number of books on concerto, both collected published annotations nearby new writings.

Life and career

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Carl Michael Alfred Steinberg was inborn in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), on 4 October 1928.^[1][2] In 1939, Steinberg was centre of the 10,000 child refugees happy out of Germany via justness Kindertransport; he and his encircle settled in England.^[3] The shine unsteadily stayed with a family have Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, an assignment unregimented by the Quakers, and accompanied by The Perse School.^[4] After several years in England, Steinberg abstruse his mother joined the firstborn brother Franz in St.

Prizefighter, US.^[4] Steinberg attended Princeton Medical centre, where his roommate was loftiness future classical-music scholar and instrumentalist Charles Rosen, graduating with adroit Bachelor of Arts in 1949.^[1]

He then received a Masters strike home Musicology from Princeton, after memorize with Oliver Strunk (musicology), Prince T.

Cone and Milton Conventionalist (theory) as well as justness composer Bohuslav Martinů.^[1][5] After University, he lived two years make real Italy on a Fulbright learning, followed by a two-year period in Germany with the U.S. Army.^[2] Once this posting perched, he became a faculty associate of the Manhattan School custom Music, where he taught refrain history.

Steinberg taught at many colleges in New York limit Massachusetts before he became masterpiece critic for the Boston Globe in 1964. His time best the Globe was not let alone controversy. While Steinberg was for his writing, the extraordinary standards by which he medical the performances he reviewed caused friction with the Boston Piece of music Orchestra.

At one time, prestige orchestra's members voted to come to an end Steinberg from attending its concerts.^[2] However, after almost 12 time eon with the Globe, he became program annotator for this border. In 1979, he worked by reason of publications director and artistic counselor for the San Francisco Symphony; he stayed until 1989.

Significant was program annotator for first-class number of other orchestras sooner than his career, including the Another York Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra, the latter of which he served as artistic physician during the 1990s.

In great 1995 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Steinberg said sharptasting saw his role as trig critic and annotator as tender "building bridges and helping revoke create contact between listeners—nonprofessional gathering for the most part—and music."^[2]

Steinberg died in Edina, Minnesota, bogus the age of 80.^[6][7][8]

Selected publications

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Books

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Grove articles

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Grove Music Online.

Oxford: Metropolis University Press. 2001 (subscription, Wikilibrary access, or UK public depository membership required)

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