JAZZ LEGEND DR BEBOP BROFKSY PADRE MARTINI CLASSICAL ITALIAN VERMONT 1963 NYC HC

Description: Howard "Dr. Bebop" Brofsky, legendary jazzman and music educator’s 1963 dissertation on Padre Martini (mentor to Mozart). A unique piece of music history that combines the worlds of Jazz & Classical music. Howard "Dr. Bebop" Brofsky. Brofsky earned the nickname “Dr. Bebop” in the late 1940s and early 50s at the outset of the Bebop era in New York. Brofsky was a student at New York University, where he earned his doctorate degree in 18th Century Italian music. But he spent his nights following the great jazz innovator Charlie Parker from club to club. Thus he enjoyed a dual identity as a musicologist and as a trumpeter affectionately known as Dr. Bebop. As a jazzman, he made music with many of the legends, including Dexter Gordon, Joe Albany, and Jimmy Heath, and for years he played in the ensemble of painter and saxophonist Larry Rivers. Drummer Jimmy Wormworth said he was “a legendary New Yorker for cats in the know.”On the Classical music side Brofsky, was a professor emeritus of music at Queens College. He earned his Ph.D. in 18th century Italian classical music and was an authority on Padre Martini, one of Mozart’s teachers. This is his dissertation:THE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC OF PADRE MARTINIby HOWARD BROFSKY, 1963New York University, Oh.D., 1963, Music.Published by University Microfilms, Michigan, 1963. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket, green boards, gilt titling to spine, tight binding, solid spine has slight canter, clean unmarked text, 12mo, 357 pages. Previous owner's signature to ffep, "D. R. Fuller". Giovanni Battista Martini, O.F.M. Conv. (1706 - 1784), also known as Padre Martini, was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar, who was a leading musician, composer, and music historian of the period and a mentor to Mozart.Brofsky moved to Vermont in the 1970s to visit Atilla Zoller, the Hungarian jazz guitarist. Zoller had a house in Townshend where he invited young musicians for jam sessions and eventually a summer workshop.Brofsky helped Zoller develop a curriculum for what became the Vermont Jazz Center. He served for many years as the center’s president.From the library of David Fuller, Professor emeritus at the University at Buffalo, he studied organ privately with E. Power Biggs, William Self, and André Marchal. He was educated at Harvard, from which he holds the A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees. He taught music history and was college organist at Robert College, Istanbul, and Dartmouth, and among other things, he discovered the works of Armand Louis Couperin.. From 1963 to 1998 he taught the history of music at the State University of New York at Buffalo. As a musicologist, he specializes in 17th and 18th-century French music and in Baroque performing practices, on which topics he has published widely. Loc: E15StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackJAZZ LEGEND DR BEBOP BROFKSY PADRE MARTINI CLASSICAL ITALIAN VERMONT 1963 NYC HC Howard "Dr. Bebop" Brofsky, legendary jazzman and music educator’s 1963 dissertation on Padre Martini (mentor to Mozart). A unique piece of music history that combines the worlds of Jazz & Classical music. Howard "Dr. Bebop" Brofsky. Brofsky earned the nickname “Dr. Bebop” in the late 1940s and early 50s at the outset of the Bebop era in New York. Brofsky was a student at New York University, where he earned his doctorate degree in 18th Century Italian music. But he spent his nights following the great jazz innovator Charlie Parker from club to club. Thus he enjoyed a dual identity as a musicologist and as a trumpeter affectionately known as Dr. Bebop. As a jazzman, he made music with many of the legends, including Dexter Gordon, Joe Albany, and Jimmy Heath, and for years he played in the ensemble of painter and saxophonist Larry Rivers. Drummer Jimmy Wormworth said he was “a legendary New Yorker for cats in the know.”On the Classical music side Brofsky, was a professor emeritus of music at Queens College. He earned his Ph.D. in 18th century Italian classical music and was an authority on Padre Martini, one of Mozart’s teachers. This is his dissertation:THE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC OF PADRE MARTINIby HOWARD BROFSKY, 1963New York University, Oh.D., 1963, Music.Published by University Microfilms, Michigan, 1963. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket, green boards, gilt titling to spine, tight binding, solid spine has slight canter, clean unmarked text, 12mo, 357 pages. Previous owner's signature to ffep, "D. R. Fuller". Giovanni Battista Martini, O.F.M. Conv. (1706 - 1784), also known as Padre Martini, was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar, who was a leading musician, composer, and music historian of the period and a mentor to Mozart.Brofsky moved to Vermont in the 1970s to visit Atilla Zoller, the Hungarian jazz guitarist. Zoller had a house in Townshend where he invited young musicians for jam sessions and eventually a summer workshop.Brofsky helped Zoller develop a curriculum for what became the Vermont Jazz Center. He served for many years as the center’s president.From the library of David Fuller, Professor emeritus at the University at Buffalo, he studied organ privately with E. Power Biggs, William Self, and André Marchal. He was educated at Harvard, from which he holds the A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees. He taught music history and was college organist at Robert College, Istanbul, and Dartmouth, and among other things, he discovered the works of Armand Louis Couperin.. From 1963 to 1998 he taught the history of music at the State University of New York at Buffalo. As a musicologist, he specializes in 17th and 18th-century French music and in Baroque performing practices, on which topics he has published widely. Loc: E15

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