Discipline: Music Composition

Robert Strassburg

Discipline: Music Composition
MacDowell Fellowships: 1946
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Robert Strassburg (1915–2003) was a leading American conductor, composer, musicologist, and music educator of the 20th century. His studies in music were completed under the supervision of such leading composers as Igor Stravinsky, Walter Piston, and Paul Hindemith, with whom he studied at Tanglewood. His formal academic studies were completed at the New England Conservatory of Music and Harvard University, where he obtained a fellowship in composition. He also completed a doctorate in fine arts at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. As a musicologist, Dr. Strassburg was regarded as a leading authority on the compositions of the composer Ernest Bloch.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Robert Strassburg worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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