Chusid, Martin
Chusid, Martin
Chusid, Martin, American musicologist; b. N.Y., Aug. 19, 1925. He studied at the Univ. of Calif, at Berkeley (B.A., 1950; M.A., 1955; Ph.D., 1961, with the diss. The Chamber Music of Schubert). Chusid taught at the Univ. of Southern Calif, in Los Angeles (1959–63) and at N.Y.U. (from 1963), where he also served as chairman of the music dept. (1967–70), assoc. dean of the graduate school of arts and sciences (1970–72), and director of the American Inst. for Verdi Studies (from 1976). He edited the Norton Critical Score edition of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony (N.Y., 1968; 2nd éd., 1971), and was a contributor to the new critical editions of the complete works of Schubert and of Verdi.
Writings
A Catalog of Verdi’s Operas (Hackensack, N.J., 1974); with W. Weaver, The Verdi Companion (N.Y., 1979; 2nd ed., rev., 1988); Verdi’s Middle Period (Chicago, 1997); A Companion to Schubert’s “Schwanengesang” (New Haven, 2000).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire