In Memoriam: Edith Weiss MannSource: Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Autumn, 1951), p. 282Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the American Musicological SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/829634 .

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S NO TICE S

THE seventeenth annual meeting of the American Musicological Society will be held at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N. Y., on December 27-29, 1951, in conjunction with the Music Library Association and the Society for Music in the Liberal Arts College. According to present plans, still subject to change, there will be AMS papers from Eta Harich- Schneider ("The Remains of Japanese Gagaku and their Present Condition"), Willard Rhodes ("Music of the Shaker Re- ligion among the American Indians of the Northwest"), Yury Arbatsky ("Hebrew Polyphony in Macedonia"), Catherine V. Brooks ("The Chansons of Antoine Bus- nois"), Edgar H. Sparks ("The Motets of Antoine Busnois"), Ruth Hannas ("Con- cerning Deletions in the Polphonic Mass Credo"), Helen Hewitt ("Some Aspects of the Canti B of Petrucci"), Edward Lowinsky ("The Archive of the Oratorio of San Filippo Neri in Rome"), John

Ward ("The Use of Borrowed Material in

16th-Century Instrumental Music"), Vin- cent Duckles ("The 'Curious' Art of John Wilson"), Walter Rubsamen ("The Secu- lar Cantatas of Benedetto Marcello"), and Putnam Aldrich ("Preface to a Theory of

Rhythm"); Clement Miller will read a

paper on the Dodekachordon and Richard S. Hill will deliver one on Arnold Schoen-

berg. A symposium is to be conducted, under the chairmanship of Arthur Mendel, on the editing of music dating from before ca. 1700. Elections will be held for one Vice-President, Treasurer, and six Mem-

bers-at-Large. Members of the three or-

ganizations will be invited to an organ recital by Catherine Crozier and an instru- mental concert conducted by Frederick Fennell.

The Northern California Chapter has elected the following officers: Chairman, David D. Boyden; Secretary, Margaret E. Lyon.

IN MEMORIAM: EDITH WEISS MANN

W im the death of Edith Weiss Mann, the work of a pioneer in the re-discovery of the harpsichord sound of the Baroque has ended. Born in i885 in Hamburg,

trained at the Hochschule fiir Musik in Berlin under Joachim's directorship, and active since i904 as a pianist, music critic, and music educator, Mme. Weiss Mann founded the Vereinigung zur Pflege alter Musik in Hamburg while teaching at Hamburg Uni-

versity. In the concerts of this group, works by Weckmann, Liibeck, Croft, Selle, Keiser, and other masters of the i7th and 18th centuries were first recovered from oblivion. Mme. Weiss Mann's instrument was made by the famed last descendant of the Steingrfiber family, Johann George Steingridber, who, at the end of a unique life of studying and collecting instruments, built seven harpsichords following the model of Bach's instrument in the Berlin collection. The third of these instruments was

brought to the United States when Mme. Weiss Mann arrived here in 1939 escaping from Germany. Her concert activity in this country is retained in numerous recordings of works by Bach, Liibeck, Kuhnau, B6hm, Reinken, Scheidt, Telemann, and Weck- mann. Her last two recitals, a performance of the Musical Offering and a harpsichord recital at Town Hall, were already overshadowed by the fatal illness that ended her life on May x8, 1951, in Westfield, New Jersey. Carl Weinrich played a memorial vespers recital at the Columbia University Chapel.

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