Smits van Waesberghe, Jos(eph Maria Antonius Franciscus)

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Smits van Waesberghe, Jos(eph Maria Antonius Franciscus)

Smits van Waesberghe, Jos(eph Maria Antonius Franciscus), prominent Dutch musicologist; b. Breda, North Brabant, April 18, 1901; d. Amsterdam, Oct. 9, 1986. He studied at several Jesuit seminaries, and became a priest. In addition to his training in philosophy (1922–26) and theology (1930–35), he also studied music with Louis van Tulder, Marius Monnik-endam, and Johan Winnubst. He taught at Canisius Coll. in Nijmegen (1935–37), Ignatius Coll. in Amsterdam (1937–43), the Rotterdam Cons. (1939–43), the Amsterdam Cons. (1944–46), and the Univ. of Amsterdam, where he was a Privatdozent in music and medieval theory (1945–57) and a prof. (1957–71). He served as general secretary of the Koninklije Nederlandse Toonkunstenaars Vereniging (1945–48), founder-secretary of the Nederlandse Toonkunstenaars Raad (from 1948), and president of the Gregoriusvereniging (1958–67).

Writings

Klokken en klokkengieten in de middeleeuwen (Til-burg, 1937); Muziekgeschiedenis der middeleeuwen (Tilburg, 1936–42); Het Gregoriaans (Amsterdam, 1943; Eng. tr., 1946); Muziek en drama in de middeleeuwen (Amsterdam, 1943; second ed., 1954); De uitzonderlijke plaats van de Ars Musica in de ontwikkeling der wetenschappen gedurende de eeuw der Karolingers (The Hague, 1947); Handleiding voor het lezen der neumletters van St. Gallen (Tilburg, 1947); School en muziek in de Middeleeuwen (Amsterdam, 1949); Melodieleer (Amsterdam, 1950; Eng. tr., 1954); Cymbala: Bells in the Middle Ages (Rome, 1951); De musico et musico-paedogogico Guidone Aretino (Florence, 1953); Oud-Nederlands paasspel (Bussum, 1953); Het toonkunstenaarsboek van Nederland (Amsterdam, 1956); with P. Fischer and C. Maas, The Theory of Music from the Carolingian Era up to 1400 (1961); Musikerziehung (Leipzig, 1969); De muzische mens: Zijn motoriek (Amsterdam, 1971).

Bibliography

Organicae voces: Festschrift J. S.v.W. angeboten anlässlich seines 60. Geburtstages (Amsterdam, 1963); Dia-pason, de omnibus: Ausgewähtle Aufsätze von J. S.v.W.: Festgabe zu seinem 75. Geburtstag (Buren, 1976).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire