Tusler, Robert Leon
Tusler, Robert Leon
Tusler, Robert Leon, American musicologist; b. Stoughton, Wise., April 1, 1920. He studied piano and organ at Friends’ Univ., Wichita, Kans. (B.M., 1947) and musicology at the Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles (M.A., 1952) and then at the Univ. of Utrecht, the Netherlands (1956-58). In 1958 he joined the music faculty of the Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles; retired in 1983. He wrote The Style ofJ.S. Bach’s Chorale Preludes (Berkeley, Calif., 1956) and The Organ Music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (Bilthoven, 1958).
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