Background
Reti-Forbes, Jean was born in 1911 in Saltcoats, Saskatchewan, Canada. Daughter of G.W. and Clara (Boyle) Sahlmark.
Reti-Forbes, Jean was born in 1911 in Saltcoats, Saskatchewan, Canada. Daughter of G.W. and Clara (Boyle) Sahlmark.
Student of University Toronto, 1929-1931. Graduate Royal Academy Music London, 1933.
m. 2d, W. Stanton Forbes, November 15, 1963. Came to United States, 1940, naturalized, 1964. Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College, 1947-1948.
Played first performance of Reti’s piano concerto with Detroit Symphony, 1948. After death of Reti prepared for publication his Tonality-Atonality-Pantonality and Thematic Patterns in Sonatas of Beethoven. Concertized and lectured throughout United States and Europe, 1959-1972.
Associate professor of University Georgia, Athens, 1964-1972, also charge Olin Downes Papers U. Georgia Library. Vice president, trustee Jay Hambidge Art Foundation Rabun Gap, Georgia Canada Council grantee for work on Reti manuscripts, 1962.
Member American Musicol. Society, Kappa Lambda.
Married Rudolph Reti, July 3, 1943 (deceased.