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Laurence Libin, editor-in-chief of The Grove Dictionary of Musical
Instruments (Oxford University Press), is honorary curator of
Steinway & Sons, and emeritus curator of musical instruments at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art (1973-2006), where he was first
incumbent of the endowed Frederick P. Rose chair. Educated as a
harpsichordist and musicologist at Northwestern University, the
University of Chicago, and King's College,
University of London, Mr. Libin has taught in the graduate schools
of Columbia University and New York University, including the NYU
Institute of Fine Arts, and lectures internationally. His work has
been supported by grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the National Museum Act (Smithsonian Institution), the
International Research and Exchanges (IREX) program of the U.S.
Department of State, the National Antique and Art Dealers League,
the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Fund, CEC International Partners, the
Likhachev Foundation, and other sources.
In addition to numerous exhibitions, Laurence Libin has produced
two nationally syndicated radio series as well as many recordings
from the Metropolitan Museum's collection, and has published more
than 150 articles, reviews, catalogues, and monographs. He was
co-editor of the 2008 and 2009 Organ Yearbooks. He is a frequent
consultant to private collectors, museums, and cultural
institutions worldwide, and a leading spokesman for historical
preservation. In 2006 the Galpin Society (UK) awarded
him the Anthony Baines Memorial Prize for services to organology,
and in 2009 he received the Curt Sachs Award for lifetime
achievement from the American Musical Instrument Society.
Mr. Libin is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has
been president of the Organ Historical Society, vice-president of
the American Musical Instrument Society, and has served on the
National Council of the American Musicological Society and on its
Noah Greenberg and Howard Mayer Brown Award Committees, as a member
of the Comité International des Musées et Collections d'Instruments
de Musique, and on governing boards of the American Organ Archives
and OHS Press. He has
been a member of the editorial board of the American Recorder
Society and of advisory councils of Red Cedar Chamber Music (Cedar
Rapids, Iowa), the Medici Archive Project (Florence, Italy), the
MusicaRussia
Foundation, Early Music America, the New York Flute Club, the
Boston Early Music Festival, the Boston Baroque and Classical Band
orchestras, the Instituto de Órganos Históricos de Oaxaca (Mexico),
and grant review panels of the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Praise for the First Edition
"This is an enormously valuable work. A three-volume dictionary of
instruments could hardly fail to have some value; but the great
thing about this one, which will be consulted by many for years to
come, is that it can be trusted." --Music and Letters
"Never has there been such a Dictionary of Instruments, nor, in our
time, is there likely ever to be another to compare with it for all
its excellencies." --Musical Times
"The Dictionary must be regarded as a triumphant success; this
reviewer, for one, can no longer imagine life without it." --Galpin
Society Journal
"The achievement is already a great one, and one looks forward to a
subsequent edition in future years."
--Journal of the American Musicological Society, review of the
first edition, 1988
"At its best moments, the dictionary manages to even convey a sense
of exciement about its subject matter - no small feat for a
reference dictionary." --Journal of the American Musical Instrument
Society
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