William and Gayle Cook Music Library

Julius Herford Collection : Biographical Sketch

Birth: Anklam, Germany, February 21, 1901
Death: Bloomington, Indiana, September 17, 1981

Education: Studied at the Sternsches Konservatorium in Berlin 1917-1923; Studied piano with James Kwast; Studied composition with Wilhelm Klatte and Arthur Willner

Career: Began career as choral conductor and concert pianist; Taught choral conducting in the United States (Emigrated in 1939); Lectured

Teaching appointments: Columbia University Teachers College (1939-1941); Berkshire Music Center (from 1946); Julliard School of Music (from 1946); Manhattan School (From 1949); Union Theological Seminary School of Sacred Music (from 1949); Westminster Choir College; Indiana University (1964-1980, Director of Graduate Studies in Choral Conducting).

Notable students: Lukas Foss, Jan Harrington, Robert Shaw, Roger Wagner

Bibliography:
Choral Conducting: A Symposium. Ed. Harold A. Decker and Julius Herford. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1st ed. 1973; 2nd ed. 1988.