William H. Scheid – Wikipedia
William Hurd Scheide , also Bill , (Born January 6, 1914 in Philadelphia, † November 14, 2014 in Princeton) was an American musicologist and patron.
William H. Scheide’s grandfather William T. Scheide (1847–1907) was a pioneer in the oil industry, he became wealthy in the first oil boom and was already out of business at the age of 42 to devote himself to his hobby as a book collector. [first] His son John H. Scheide (1875–1942) gave money to the Presbyterian Church and Princeton University for charitable purposes. He expanded the book collection to a veritable library at his place of residence in Titusville, Pennsylvania and acquired u. A. A copy of the United States’ declaration of independence, the Blickling Homilies and part of the Papyrus 967.
William Hurd Scheide grew up in Titusville, the “birthplace of the oil industry”. [first] He studied history in Princeton because there was no music professorship there and graduated in 1936. Then he made a master’s master in musicology at Columbia University. He worked as a lecturer in music history at the Musikinstitut at Cornell University. Sheath was married three times and has three children.
Elias Gottlob Haußmann: Johann Sebastian Bach (The second original from 1748)
After the death of his father in 1942, he took over the assets and the book collection and multiplied them for baroque grades. The vagina Library moved into a building he donated on the Princeton University campus. On the basis of his book collection with 47 volumes of the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, he deepened musicology research on Bach’s singing compositions. [first]
In 1946 he founded the music ensemble “Bach Aria Group” in New York City, which devoted himself to the performance and care of the music J. S. Bach [2] And committed a number of excellent singers and instrumentalists for the ensemble, among them Eileen Farrell, Maureen Forrester, Erich Itor Kahn, Jan Peerce and Jennie Tourel. The ensemble had existed until 1962, with a change in the line -up.
Scheine donated the “Sheath Professorship for Music History” at Princeton University. He inherited the Princeton University’s vagina library. The portrait of Johann Sebastian Bachs he acquired in 1952 by Elias Gottlob Haußmann he bequeathed the Bach Archive Leipzig to the Testament, whose board of trustees he had belonged to since 2001. The picture hangs in the Leipzig Bach Museum and was shown in the Nikolaikirche at the opening of the Bach Festival in 2015. [3]
Sheath was an important donor for the civil rights movement in the United States. With his financial aid for the legal assistance fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Brown v. Board of Education obtained from lawyer Thurgood Marshall. In the last twenty years of his life alone, he and his wife donated $ 6 million to the NAACP. [first] He has been a member of the American Philosophical Society since 1994. [4]
- A Stemma of Matthew 22,1 in Latin Incunabula Bibles . In: Gutenberg Yearbook 1962, pp. 117–121
- A speculation concerning Gutenberg’s early plans for his Bible . In: Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1973, pp. 129–139
- William H. Scheide: Bach vs. Bach . In: Wolfgang Rehm (ed.): Bachiana et alia Musicologica: Commemorative publication Alfred Dürr on his 65th birthday on March 3, 1983 . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1983, pp. 234–243
- William H. Scheide: Some Dreams and Realizations in Fifteenth-Century Mainz . In: Manfred von Arnim (ed.): Commemorative publication Otto Schäfer: On his 75th birthday on June 29, 1987 . Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1987, S. 179–190
- ↑ a b c d William Yardley: William H. Scheide, 100, Philanthropist, is Dead , in: New York Times, 23. November 2014
- ↑ Michael Fleming: Bach Aria Group . In: H. Wiley Hitchcock; Stanley Sadie: The New Grove Dictionary of American Music . London: Macmillan, 1986
- ↑ Bach returns home , at the city of Leipzig, April 29, 2015
- ↑ Member History: William H. Scheide. American Philosophical Society, accessed on February 7th, 2019 .
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