Arthur Mendel (n. 6 iunie, Boston, Massachusetts, SUA, 1905, d. 14 octombrie, 1979, Newark, New Jersey, SUA) a fost un muzicolog, muzician, dirijor și critic muzical evreu-american. A fost șeful catedrei de muzică () al universității Princeton între anii 1952-1967 și a deținut funcția "the Henry Putnam University Professorship" până la retragerea sa în 1973. A decedat în 1979, la vârsta de 74 de ani.
Cariera Arthur Mendel a studiat muzica la universitatea Harvard (B.A., 1925). Între anii 1925 - 1927 a studiat la Paris teoria mizicii cu Nadia Boulanger.
Reîntors în Statele Unite a fost între anii 1930-1938 editor literar la editura G. Schirmer, Inc. În acelaș timp a scris și critică muzicală în „The Nation” (1930-1933).
Între 1940-1943 a fost numit editorul lui "The American Musicological Society's journal" și apoi, editor la "Associated Music Publishers" (1941-1947).
Între (1936-1953) Arthur Mendel a dirijat corul "The Cantata Singers" din New York una dintre primele grupări americane specializată în muzica baroc.
Muzicolog recunoscut, din anii '40 Mendel a început să predea cursuri la Univesitatea Columbia și din 1951 la University of California, Berkeley. În 1952 el a fost numit professor de muzică și șef de catedră la Princeton University. Din 1967 a deținut poziția de The Henry Putnam University Professorship, până la retragere, în 1973.
Lista publicațiilor
1929 "First Fruits of the Season". Modern Music 6, no. 2 (Jan.-Feb. 1929): 30-32.
1930 "Music" column in The Nation "Transcribing Bach", The Nation 131, no. 3415 (Dec. 17,1930): 684, 686
1931 "Music" column in The Nation "Peace Without Euphony", The Nation 131, no. 3417 (Dec. 31, 1930): 741. "Whither Tonality", The Nation 132, no. 3419 (Jan. 14, 1931): 54-55. "From Behind a Screen", The Nation 132, no. 3412 (Jan. 28, 1931): 106-107. "Toscanini", The Nation 132, no. 3423 (Feb. 11, 1931): 163-164. "Orchestras Without Conductors", The Nation 132, no. 3425 (Feb. 25, 1931): 223-224. "Stravinsky", The Nation 132, no. 3427 (Mar. 11, 1931): 279-280. "A Neglected Composer", The Nation 132, no. 3429 (Mar. 25, 1931): 334-335. "If the Metropolitan Should Go Musical", The Nation 132, no. 3431 (Apr. 8, 1931): 390-391. "Stokowski", The Nation 132, no. 3433 (22 aprilie 1931): 458. "Concerning the Chorus", The Nation 132, no. 3435 (6 mai 1931): 509-510. "The Bach Festival", The Nation 132, no. 3439 (3 iunie 1931): 618. "Two Immortals", The Nation 133, no. 3444 (8 iulie 1931): 44-45. "Carl Weinrich", The Nation 133, no. 3459 (Oct. 21, 1931): 439-440. "Two Frenchmen Who Know How", The Nation 133, no. 3461 (Nov. 4, 1931): 495-6. "Anton Bruckner", The Nation 133, no. 3463 (Nov. 18, 1931): 549-551. "Has the Metropolitan Gone Musical?", The Nation 133, no. 3465 (Dec. 2, 1931): 620-621. "The Anatomy of Opera", The Nation 133, no. 3467 (Dec. 16, 1931): 677-678. Howard, John Tasker. Our American Music. Modern Music 9 (1931): 35-38. (Review)
1932 "Music" column in The Nation "A Change in Structure", The Nation 134, no. 3470 (Jan. 6, 1932): 26. "Composer and Performer", The Nation 134, no. 3472 (Jan. 20, 1932): 81-82. "Among the Best Performers", The Nation 134, no. 3474 (Feb. 3, 1932): 149-150. "Mental and Bodily Rhythm", The Nation 134, no. 3476 (Feb. 17, 1932): 210. "Technical Criticism", The Nation 134, no. 3480 (Mar. 16, 1932): 318-319. "Hints for Program-Makers", The Nation 134, no. 3482 (Mar. 30, 1932): 377-378. "Making Handel Louder", The Nation 134, no. 3485 (Apr. 20, 1932): 475-476. "What is American Music?", The Nation 134, no. 3487 (4 mai 1932): 524-525. "The American Composer", The Nation 134, no. 3489 (18 mai 1932): 578-580. "Europen Potpourri", The Nation 135 no. 3517 (Nov. 30, 1932): 540. "The Golden-haired Standard", The Nation 135 no. 3521 (Dec. 28, 1932): 652-654.
1933 "Our Musical Diet", The Nation 136 no. 3524 (Jan. 18, 1933): 74. "Selling Symphonies", The Nation 136 no. 3526 (Feb. 1, 1933): 128-130. "Two Kinds of Radicalism", The Nation 136 no. 3529 (Feb. 22, 1933): 216. "The Emperor Jones", The Nation 136 no. 3532 (Mar. 15, 1933): 297-298. "The Power of Implication", The Nation 136 no. 3535 (Apr. 5, 1933): 384. "The Subversive Jew [Review of Eichenauer, Richard. Musik und Rasse]", The Nation 136 no. 3537 (Apr. 19, 1933): 454. "Pierrot Lunaire", The Nation 136 no. 3540 (10 mai 1933): 538. "Modern Music [Review of Pannain, Guido. Modern Composers; Saminsky, Lazare. Music of Our Day. Essencials and Prophecies]", The Nation 137 no. 3548 (5 iulie 1933): 24. "American Composers [Review of American Composers on American Music, edited by Henry Cowell]", The Nation 137 no. 3561 (Oct. 4, 1933): 389-390. 1934 "Orchestral Version of Harris' Chorale". Modern Music 12, no. 1 (Nov.-Dec. 1934): 47. "Spengler's Quarrel with the Methods of Music History". The Musical Quarterly 20, no. 2 (Apr. 1934): 131-171. "Sitwell, Sacheverell. Liszt." The Saturday Review of Literature 11 (Sept. 29, 1934): 139. (Review) 1935 "The Early Twentieth Century". Chapter 41 in The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students, edited by Sitwell. Revised and enlarged edition. New York: G. Schirmer 1935. Bekker, Paul. The Changing Opera. New York: W. W. Norton, 1935. (Translation) Bekker, Paul. "The Opera Walks New Paths". The Musical Quarterly 21, no. 3 (July 1935): 266-278. (Translation) 1936 Rosenfeld, Paul. Discoveries of a Music Critic; Williams, Vaughan. National Music; Lambert, Constant. Music Ho! A Study of Music in Decline; Van Dieren, Bernard. Down Among the Dead Men, and Other Essays. The Saturday Review of Literature 14 (2 mai 1936): 10. (Review) 1937 "The Changing Audience of the Composer". Volume of Proceedings of the Music Teachers National Association 61 (1937): 21-30. Van Loon, Hendrik Willem The Arts. The Saturday Review of Literature 16 (Oct. 2, 1937): 6. (Review)
1938 The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, edited by Oscar Thompson. The Saturday Review of Literature 19 (Dec. 31, 1938): 18. (Review) Leiditentritt, Hugo. Music, History, and Ideas. The Saturday Review of Literature 18 (Sept. 3, 1938): 20. (Review)
1939 "An American Congress". The Musical Times 80, no. 1161 (Nov. 1939): 777-778. "The Quintet of Roy Harris". Modern Music 17, no. 1 (Oct.-Nov., 1939): 25-28. Brockway, Wallace and Herbert Weinstock. Men of Music. The Saturday Review of Literature 21 (Nov. 25, 1939): 12. (Review) Einstein, Alfred. "Dante, on the Way to the Madrigal". The Musical Quarterly 25, no. 2 (Apr. 1939): 142-155. (Translation) Kestenberg, Leo. "Music Education Goes its Own Way". The Musical Quarterly 25, no. 4 (Oct. 1939): 442-454. (Translation) Saint-Foix, Georges de, "A Musical Traveler: Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (1759-1842)". The Musical Quarterly 25, no. 4 (Oct. 1939): 455-465. (Translation) 1940 "New York". The Musical Times 81, no. 1171 (Sep. 1940): 383. Harris, Roy. Quintet; Third Symphony. The Victor Record Review 2, no. 12 (Apr. 1940). (Review) Felber, Rudolf. "Schumann's Place in German Song". The Musical Quarterly 26, no. 3 (July 1940): 340-354. (Translation) Graf, Max. "The Death of a Music City (Vienna: 1600-1938)". The Musical Quarterly 26, no. 1 (Jan. 1940): 8-18. (Translation) Redlich, Hans F. "Egon Wellesz". The Musical Quarterly 26, no. 1 (Jan. 1940): 65-75. (Translation) Scherchen, Hermann. "Johann Sebastian Bach's Last Composition". The Musical Quarterly 26, no. 4 (Oct. 1940): 467-482. (Translation) Varr argit. "Imponderable Elements of Musicality". The Musical Quarterly 26, no. 4 (Oct. 1940): 446-455. (Translation) 1941 Our Contemporary Composers: American Music in the Twentieth Century. John Tasker Howard with the assistance of Arthur Mendel. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1941. Einstein, Alfred. "Mozart's Choice of Keys". The Musical Quarterly 27, no. 4 (Oct. 1941): 415-421. (Translation) Englander, Richard. "The Sketches for The Magic Flute at Upsala". The Musical Quarterly 27, no. 3 (July 1941): 343-355. (Translation) Nettl, Paul. "Mozart and the Czechs". The Musical Quarterly 27, no. 3 (July 1941): 329-342. (Translation) Rosenthal, Karl August. "Mozart's Sacramental Litanies and their Forerunners". The Musical Quarterly 27, no. 4 (Oct. 1941): 433-455. (Translation) Holde, Artur. "Four Unknown Letters of Richard Wagner. Presented with Comment". The Musical Quarterly 27, no. 2 (Apr. 1941): 220-234. (Letters translated by Arthur Mendel) (Translation)
1942 Hernried, Robert. "Four Unpublished Compositions by Robert Schumann". The Musical Quarterly 28, no. 1 (Jan., 1942): 50-62. (Translation) Bekker, Paul. "Franz Liszt Reconsidered". The Musical Quarterly 28, no. 2 (Apr. 1942):186-189. (Translation) Hindemith, Paul. The Craft of Musical Composition. Theoretical Part. New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1942. (Translation) Nettl, Paul. "An English Musician at the Court of Charles VI in Vienna". The Musical Quarterly 28, no. 3 (July 1942): 318-328. (Translation)
1943 "Problems in the Performance of Bach's Choral Music". (Abstract) Bulletin of the American Musicological Society No. 7 (Oct. 1943): 2-3. "Thoughts on the Translation of Vocal Texts". In A Birthday Offering to Carl Engel, edited by Gustave Reese. New York: G. Schirmer, 1943. Callomon, Fritz. "Some Unpublished Brahms Correspondence". The Musical Quarterly 29, no. 1 (Jan. 1943): 32-44. (Translation) Kolisch, Rudolf. "Tempo and Character in Beethoven's Music". Parts 1-2. The Musical Quarterly 29, no. 2-3 (Apr., July 1943): 169-187, 291-312. (Translation)
1944 "The Handicraft of Music Engraving". In Music: A Preview Issue of a Postwar Monthly, edited by Arthur Mendel. Milwaukee; New York: Kalmbath Publishing Co., 1944. (Article by and volume edited by Mendel) Papers Read at the International Congress of Musicology [New York, September 11th to 16th, 1939], edited with Gustave Reese and Gilbert Chase. New York: Music Educators' National Conference for the American Musicological Society, 1944. Bach, Johann Sebastian. Sonata in E minor for violin and continuo, performed by Adolph Busch, violin, and Artur Balsam, piano. Music: A Preview Issue of a Postwar Monthly, edited by Arthur Mendel. Milwaukee; New York: Kalmbath Publishing Co., 1944 (Review) Hindemith, Paul. "Methods of Music Theory". The Musical Quarterly 30, no. 1 (Jan. 1944): 20-28. (Translation)
1945 The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents, edited with Hans T. David. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1945. Tovey, Donald Francis. Essays in Musical Analysis: Chamber Music; Musical Articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, edited by Hubert J. Foss. The Musical Quarterly 31, no. 3 (July, 1945): 383-387. (Review) Einstein, Alfred. Mozart: His Character, His Work, translated with Nathan Broder. New York: Oxford University Press, 1945. (Review)
1947 "The Bach Reader". (Letter to the editor) The Musical Times 88, no. 1247 (Jan. 1947): 30-31. 1948 "Pitch in the 16th and Early 17th Centuries". Parts 1-4. The Musical Quarterly 34, no. 1-4 (Jan., Apr., July, Oct. 1948): 28-45, 199-221, 336-357, 575-593.
1949 "Devices for Transposition in the Organ Before 1600". Acta Musicologica 21 (1949): 24-40. Sch?einrich. The Christmas Story. Historia von der Geburt Jesu Christi. New York: G. Schirmer 1949. (Edition) Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel. Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments, trans. by William J. Mitchell. The Musical Quarterly 35, no. 2 (Apr. 1949): 323-329. (Review)
1950 "On the Keyboard Accompaniments to Bach's Leipzig Church Music". The Musical Quarterly 36, no. 3 (July 1950): 339-362. "More for The Bach Reader". The Musical Quarterly 36, no. 4 (Oct. 1950): 485-510. Sch?einrich. Weihnachts-Historie (The Christmas Story). The Cantata Singers and Orchestra Conducted by Arthur Mendel. R.E.B. Editions 3. Rowayton, Connecticut, 1950. (LP) (Recording)