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Forbes, Elliot

LC control no.n 50024796
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Personal name headingForbes, Elliot
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placePrinceton (N.J.)
LocatedCambridge (Mass.)
Birth date1917-08-30
Death date2006-01-10
Place of birthCambridge (Mass.)
Place of deathCambridge (Mass.)
AffiliationPrinceton University
Harvard University
Profession or occupationMusicologists Choral conductors
University and college faculty members
Found inHis Five French noëls, 1961.
His A history of music at Harvard to 1972, 1988: CIP t.p. (Elliot Forbes) data sheet (b. 8-30-17)
New York times WWW site, Jan. 17, 2006 (in obituary published Jan. 14: Elliot Forbes; b. Aug. 30, 1917; d. Tuesday [Jan. 10, 2006], Cambridge, Mass., aged 88; retired Harvard University professor of music whose revision of Thayer's Life of Beethoven became a pillar of Beethoven scholarship)
Grove music online, November 29, 2018 (Forbes, Elliot; born August 30, 1917, Cambridge, Massachusetts, died January 9, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts; American musicologist and choral conductor; BA, 1941; MA, 1947, both from Harvard University; taught at Princeton, 1947-1958; appointed professor at Harvard, 1958, emeritus 1984; includes list of publications)
Social Security death index, November 29, 2018 (Elliot Forbes; born August 30, 1917, died January 10, 2006; last known residence: Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Associated languageeng