Nelson, Robert U(riel)
Nelson, Robert U(riel)
Nelson, Robert U(riel), American musicologist; b. Brush, Colo., Sept. 16, 1902; d. Los Angeles, Dec. 31, 1995. He studied at the Univ. of Calif, at Berkeley (A.B., 1923), with Déthier and Goetschius at the Inst. of Musical Art in N.Y. (diplomas in piano and organ, 1925), with Hoist and Zador (composition), and with Piston and Apel at Harvard Univ. (M.A., 1937; Ph.D., 1944). From 1925 to 1937 he taught at Washington State Univ. In 1938 he became an instructor and in 1955 a prof. at the Univ. of Calif, at Los Angeles, from which he retired in 1970. In addition to articles in various journals, he pubi, the valuable study The Technique of Variation (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1948).
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