Newman, William Stein

Newman, William Stein
▪ 2001

      American musicologist and educator (b. April 6, 1912, Cleveland, Ohio—d. April 27, 2000, Chapel Hill, N.C.), was a leading historian of music who in 1963 published a seminal three-volume work, The History of the Sonata (The Sonata in the Baroque Era, The Sonata in the Classical Era, and The Sonata Since Beethoven). Newman earned a Ph.D. in musicology from the Cleveland (Ohio) Institute of Music in 1939. After service in World War II, he joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a professor of music from 1945 to 1977. Newman published another influential work, Beethoven on Beethoven: Playing His Piano Music His Way, in 1988.

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