The practice of music at Melk Abbey : based upon the documents, 1681-1826 - Freeman, Robert Norman 1939- (Vienna Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1989)
Robert N. Freeman attended UCLA from 1959 to 1971. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. (with distinction) at the school. During this period, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Austria, and it was then that he began his lifelong love affair with the country and its people. He was a solid, gifted scholar, deeply in love with his subject: the Benedictine Abbey of Melk and its music in the eighteenth century. He would speak glowingly of the Abbey, his work there, and of his second Austrian family, with whom he stayed on their farm outside the city. He was the author of monographs on the composer Franz Schneider (1979), and on The Practice of Music at Melk Based upon the Documents, 1681-1826 (1989); he edited a volume of Austrian Cloister Symphonies (1982) for the series, The Symphony, 1720-1840. Particularly important, too, were his articles on “New Sources for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto Cadenzas from Melk Abbey” (1992) and “Johann Georg Albrechtsberger’s ‘26 canoni aperti varii autori’: Observations on Canonic Theory and Repertory in the Late 18th Century” (1994). He was made a member of the Austrian Musicological Society in 1990. This was a rare honor, since foreigners can join the society only by invitation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [496]-504) and index.
Keywords: Stift Melk (Austria); Benedictines; 19th Century (1801-1900); 17th Century (1601-1700); 18th Century (1701-1800); Music history; Monastery; Rehearsal; Performance; Austria; Melk (Austria)