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As a writer, he specialized in the history of American music, and his publications laid the foundation for the scholarly study of music in the U.S. Sonneck understood how important a bibliographical basis was for making musical studies. As a documentary historian, bibliographer, cataloguer, editor
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From 1918, he was honorary librarian of the New York Beethoven Association. The collection of Beethoveniana he built up came to the
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and critic, Oscar Sonneck is recognized as the first scholar of early music in America.
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Report on "The Star-Spangled Banner", "Hail Columbia", "America", "Yankee Doodle"
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From 1902 to 1917, he was head of the music division of the
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was created in his honor, and initially named after him.
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librarian
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musicologist
Jersey City
philosophy
Heidelberg
Munich
Library of Congress
The Musical Quarterly
New York City
Society for American Music
New York Public Library
"Oscar Sonneck Musicologist, Librarian, Editor"
"Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore"
"Happy 240th, Beethoven! And thank you, Beethoven Association"
Music Division, Library of Congress
Oscar George Theodore Sonneck Collection
How to use archival material
Free scores by Oscar Sonneck
International Music Score Library Project
Works by Oscar Sonneck
Faded Page
Sonneck's books

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