Gustave Reese was an American musicologist and teacher.
14 Facts About Gustave Reese
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Gustave Reese was born in New York City on November 29,1899.
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Gustave Reese was an avid scholar and had interests in many areas outside music, including art, architecture, and literature.
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Gustave Reese studied law at New York University, graduating in 1921.
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Gustave Reese continued teaching there intermittently until 1974, and he became Professor Emeritus in 1973.
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Gustave Reese served as a visiting professor at a number of universities, including Harvard, Duke, UCLA, USC, Michigan, Oxford and the Juilliard School of Music.
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Gustave Reese was a founder-member of the American Musicological Society from 1934, serving as its first secretary.
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Gustave Reese became vice-president in 1946 and president of the organization in 1950.
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Gustave Reese has held positions in the International Musicological Society, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society.
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Gustave Reese had a profound impact on many generations of music students through his passionate and insightful teaching.
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Gustave Reese has left a valuable legacy in Music in the Middle Ages and Music in the Renaissance.
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Gustave Reese is often perceived to have 'raised the bar' of musicological scholarship with his thorough research, intellectual rigour and comprehensive bibliographies.
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Gustave Reese commissioned other people to contribute specialist sections to these books, such as Igor Buketoff's piece on Russian chant in Music in the Middle Ages.
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Gustave Reese married Fine Arts administrator and cookbook author and editor Carol Truax in 1974.