Oscar George Theodore Sonneck

Background

Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore was born on October 6, 1873 in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Son of Georg S. and Julia (Meyne) Sonneck.

Education

Educated Kieler Gelehrtenschule, Kiel, Germany, 1883-1889. Kaiser Friedrich’s Gymnasium, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1889-1893. University of Heidelberg, 1893.

University of Munich, 1893-1897.

History of music under Sandberger, philosophy, et cetera, under Stumpf, Riehl, Lipps, composition under M. East. Sachs. Conservatory at Sondershausen, 1898, principally conducting.

Piano at Frankfort-on-the-Main under Kwast. Instrumentation under Knorr.

Career

Chief of music division, Library of Congress, 1902-1917. Vice president G. Schirmer, Incorporated., music publishers, New New York Editor Musical Quarterly, since 1915. United States delegate International Museum Congress, Rome and London, 1911, also to Beethoven Centenary, Vienna, 1927.

Secretary Beethoven Association.

Executive member Society for Publication of America Music. Author: Protest gegen den Symbolismus in der Musik, 1897.

Classification of Music and Literature of Music, 1904, review edit, 1917. Francis Hopkinson and James Lyon—Two Studies in Early American Music, 1905.

Bibliography of Early Secular American Music, 1905.

Early Concert Life in America, 1907. Catalogue of Dramatic Music in the Library of Congress, 1908, Orchestral Music, 1912, of Early Librettos (before 1800), 1914. Report on the “Star Spangled Banner,” “America,” “Hail, Columbia,” “Yankee Doodle,” 1909.

The Star Spangled Banner, 1914.

Early Opera in America, 1915. Catalogue of First Editions of South. C. Foster (with West. R. Whittlesey), 1915, of Edward MacDowell, 1917.

Suum Cuique, Essays in Music, 1916. Miscellaneous Studies in the History of Music, 1921.

Beethoven—Impressions of Contemporaries, 1926.

Beethoven Letters in America, 1927. The Riddle of the Immortal Beloved, 1927. Also numerous contributions to musical periodicals (music) Cyklus für Baryton aus Eine Totenmesse, operation 9.

Vermischte Lieder, operation 12.

Four songs to poems by Edgar Allan Poe, operation 16. Six songs, operation 14-15.

Pessimistische Lieder, operation 17. Kleiner Lieder Cyklus, operation 18.

Studies in Song, operation 19.

(poetry) Seufzer, 1895, and Eine Totenmesse, 1898 (both published at Frankfort). President United States Section International Society Contemp. Music, 1923-1924. Address: New York, New New York

Achievements

• Oscar George Theodore Sonneck has been listed as a notable musician, historian, librarian by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Society for Publication of America Music.

Connections

Married Marie Elisabeth Ames, November 9, 1904.

Father:

Georg South. Sonneck

Mother:

Julia (Meyne) Sonneck

Spouse:

Marie Elisabeth Ames