Ellinwood, Leonard (Webster)
Ellinwood, Leonard (Webster)
Ellinwood, Leonard (Webster), American musicologist; b. Thomaston, Conn., Feb. 13, 1905; d. Washington, D.C., July 8, 1994. He studied at Aurora (III.) Coll. (B.A., 1926) and with Charles Warren Fox at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.(M.Mus., 1934; Ph.D., 1936, with the diss. The Works of Francesco Landini). He taught at Mich. State Coll. (1936–39); then was a cataloguer at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where he later was head of its humanities division (1970–75). He publ. Musica Hermanni Contract! (Rochester, N.Y., 1936), Bio-bibliographical Index of Musicians in the U.S.A. Since Colonial Times (Washington, D.C., 1941; 2nd ed., 1956), and The History of American Church Music (N.Y., 1953); he also ed. Landings works (Cambridge, Mass., 1939) and Tallis’s English sacred music in the Early English Church Music series, XII-XIII (1971–72).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire