Nancy B. Reich

Nancy Bassen Reich was an American musicologist. She was born on 3 July 1924 in New York City,[1] and died on 31 January 2019 in Ossining, N.Y. Her seminal 1985 biography of Clara Schumann established Clara as an important musical figure independent of her husband, the composer Robert Schumann, and helped turn the musicological spotlight on female composers.[2]

Prizes and awards

• 1986: Deems-Taylor Award of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
• 1996: Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau

Essays and books

• The Rudorff Collection, in Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, volume 31 (1974), p. 247–261
• Louise Reichardt, in Ars musica, musica scientia. Festschrift Heinrich Hüschen zum fünfundsechzigsten Geburtstag am 2. März 1980, published by Detlef Altenburg, Cologne 1980, p. 369–377
• Die schöpferische Partnerschaft Clara und Robert Schumanns, in 9. Robert-Schumann-Tage, 1984, p. 43–52
• Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, in Brahms and his World, Princeton University Press, 1990, p. 37–47
• Die Lieder von Clara Schumann, in Brahms-Studien, volume 11 (1997), p. 97–106
• Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman, revised edition, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001
• Robert Schumann’s Music in New York City, 1848–1898, in Schumanniana nova. Festschrift Gerd Nauhaus zum 60. Geburtstag, Sinzig 2002, p. 569–595

References

1. Who's Who of American Women. 20th edition (1997/98, p. 2199).
2. da Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna (11 Feb 2019). "Nancy B. Reich, Scholarly Champion of Clara Schumann, Dies at 94". New York Times. Retrieved 1 July 2019.

External links

• Short biography with picture
• Interview
• Literature by and about Nancy B. Reich in the German National Library catalogue
• Nancy B. Reich discography at Discogs