Kinkeldey, Otto
Kinkeldey, Otto
Kinkeldey, Otto, eminent American musicologist; b. N.Y., Nov. 27, 1878; d. Orange, N.J., Sept. 19, 1966. He graduated from the Coll. of the City of N.Y. in 1898 (B.A.) and from N.Y.U. in 1900 (M.A.), and then took lessons with MacDowell at Columbia Univ. (until 1902). He went to Berlin (1902), where he undertook a course of study with Radecke, Egidi, and Thiel at the Königlis-ches Akademisches Institut für Kirchenmusik; then studied musicology at the Univ. of Berlin with Fleischer, Friedlaander, Kretzschmar, and Wolf (Ph.D., 1909, with the diss. Orgel und Klavier in der Musik des 16. Jahrhunderts; publ. in Leipzig, 1910). He taught at the Univ. of Breslau (1909–14). Returning to the U.S., he was chief of the music division of the N.Y. Public Library (1915-23; 1927-30). He was prof, of music at Cornell Univ. (1923–27), and subsequently prof, of musicology and a librarian there (1930–46). He was a guest prof, at various American univs., as well as president of the American Musicological Soc. (1934-36; 1940-42). He contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals and also publ. What We Know about Music (Ann Arbor, 1946).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire