Jander, Owen (Hughes)
Jander, Owen (Hughes)
Jander, Owen (Hughes), American musicologist; b. Mount Kisco, N.Y., June 4, 1930. He was educated at the Univ. of Va. (B.A., 1951) and Harvard Univ. (M.A., 1952; Ph.D., 1962, with the diss. The Works of Alessandro Stradella Related to the Cantata and the Opera). In 1960 he joined the dept. of music at Wellesley Coll., where he l ater became the Catherine Mills Davis Prof, in Music History. He was founder of its Collegium Musicum for the performance of early music and also initiated the project to construct the outstanding Fisk Organ there for the performance of the pre-Bach repertoire. He also served as ed. of The Wellesley Edition and The Wellesley Edition Cantata Index Series (1962–74). In 1966-67 he held a Guggenheim fellowship, and in 1985 he received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Senior Scholars. He initially devoted himself to 17th-century Italian music, but later turned to Beethoven. He contributed numerous articles to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), and also served as co-ed, of Charles Benton Fisk: Organ Builder (2 vols., 1986).
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