XOE_SC0083 Guide to the Bertil H. van Boer Collection Van Boer (Bertil H.) Collection Finding aid created by Michael Taylor. Western Washington University, Special Collections 2022
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This finding aid encoded by Rozlind Koester on 2022-02-24. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Western Washington University, Special Collections
Special Collections 516 High St. Bellingham, WA 98225-9103 Phone: (360) 650-3193 Email: speccoll@wwu.edu http://library.wwu.edu/special-collections
Bertil H. van Boer Collection Van Boer, Bertil H. XOE_SC0083 .5 linear feet 1 box 1959-2015 Professional correspondence of Bertil H. van Boer, musicologist, composer, conductor, violist, and scholar of eighteenth-century Scandinavian music. Collection materials are in English, Swedish, and German.

Bertil H. van Boer (b. 1952) is a musicologist, composer, conductor, and violist. He earned a PhD in Musicology from Uppsala University in Sweden in 1983. He retired from Western Washington University in 2022, having served as Dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts (1996-2002) and Professor of Musicology and Music Theory (2002-2022). Prior to coming to WWU, he held positions at Wichita State University, the Conservatorio Nacional of Nicaragua, Shasta College, and Brigham Young University.

Dr. van Boer is the author of several books, articles, and musical editions, and has regularly contributed to the Grove Dictionary of Opera and Grove Dictionary of Music. His specialty is music of the eighteenth century, particularly in Scandinavia, with focus on the composer Joseph Martin Kraus. His compositions have been performed in Nicaragua, Austria, Sweden, and the United States. He serves as a musical consultant for Naxos Records and has been involved with the Royal Opera and Royal Swedish Academy of Music on various projects.

The collection consists primarily of professional correspondence with colleagues in Europe and the United States; correspondence with publishers; and documentation of van Boer's career as a teacher and college administrator. One folder contains newspaper clippings and other materials related to Joseph Martin Kraus.

Bertil H. van Boer Collection, Special Collections, Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103.

Donated by Bertil H. van Boer in 2022.

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