Jan LaRue Fund

supporting musicological research

 


The fund was established by colleagues and students of Professor LaRue with the goal of endowing a source of income to support the scholarly research of members of the American Musicological Society.

Jan LaRue (1918-2003) was an inveterate sleuth on behalf of Classical composers, both masters and the lesser-known. The information he and his associates culled from libraries and archives all over the world, along with his system of locating works by thematic identifiers, became an admired model of what was by then being called a database. His research corrected misattributions and attached composer names to many hundreds of works. The first volume of his Catalogue of 18th-Century Symphonies (1988) contained some 17,000 entries.

LaRue was born in Sumatra, where his father, the noted botanist Carl LaRue, was doing fieldwork. He earned the BA (Harvard, 1940), MFA (Princeton, 1942), and Ph.D. degrees (Harvard, 1952). He taught at Wellesley College from 1942, interrupted by military service in the Pacific; in 1957 he joined the faculty of NYU, where he served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science and Chair of the Department of Music. He was President of the American Musicological Society from 1967-68, and was named an honorary member in 1998. In 2003 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

 

as of 1 August 2008

Balance: $11,229

Donors (48):


Peter M. Alexander
Marta Andriasova
Joan Applegate
Lawrence Bennett
Lawrence F. Bernstein
Adrienne Fried Block
Paul Bryan
Michael Campbell
Bathia Churgin**
Rebecca Cypess
Jeff Dailey
Marsha Dubrow
Gloria Eive
Stephen Fisher
Suzanne Forsberg
Marian Green-LaRue
Sanja Grujic-Vlajnic
Gregory Harwood
Brian Hill
Christine Honig
Cecil Isaac
Calman Jeffrey
Donald Johns
Theodore Karp & Judith Schwartz
Frank Kirby
Ralph Lane
Marian Green LaRue
Charlotte Leonard
Marita P. McClymonds
Mary Sue Morrow
Rena Mueller and David Cannata
Arthur Ness
Judith Olson
Virginia Raad
Mary Rasmussen*
Edward and Linda Roesner
Ellen Rosand
Sandra Rosenblum
Joseph Schiavo
John Schmidt
Judith Schwartz
Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Judy Taylor
Cynthia Verba
Miriam Whaples
Jean K. Wolf
Josephine B. Wright
Peter Wright

  * = $1,000 or more
** = $5,000 or more