Zaslaw, Neal (Alexander)
Zaslaw, Neal (Alexander)
Zaslaw, Neal (Alexander), American musicologist; b. N.Y., June 28,1939. He studied at Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1961), and then took flute lessons at the Juilliard School of Music in N.Y. (M.S., 1963). He subsequently studied musicology with Paul Henry Lang at Columbia Univ. (M.A., 1965; Ph.D., 1970, with the diss. Materials for the Life and Works of Jean-Marie Leclair l’Aine). He taught at City Coll. of the City Univ. of N.Y. (1968-70), and in 1970 he joined the faculty of Cornell Univ. He was ed.-in-chief of Current Musicology (1967-70). Zaslaw publ. the vols. Edward A. MacDowell (N.Y, 1964) and Mozart’s Symphonies: Context, Performance Practice, Reception (Oxford, 1990). With W. Cowdery, he ed. The Complete Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (N.Y, 1991). He also ed. Mozart’s Piano Concertos: Text, Context, Interpretation (Ann Arbor, 1996). In 1995 he became editor of the 7th ed. of the Mozart Köchel catalog.
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