Donald William Krummel

Donald William Krummel (born July 12, 1929) is a music bibliographer, professor, and librarian. Essays in Honor of Donald W. Krummel was published in 1996.^[1]

Donald William Krummel
Born	(1929-07-12) July 12, 1929 (age 96) Sioux City, Iowa
Nationality	American
Occupation	Music bibliography

Education and career

Krummel received the B.Mus. (1951), M.Mus. (1953), M.A.L.S. (Masters in Liberal Studies, 1954), and Ph.D. (1958) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.^[2]

He was a Teaching Fellow (1952–1954) and Instructor in Music Literature (1954–1956) at the University of Michigan. He was Reference Librarian for the Music Division at the Library of Congress from 1956 to 1961.

He was Head of the Reference Department (1962–1964) and Associate Librarian from 1964 to 1969 at the Newberry Library in Chicago.^[3]

Krummel was professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1970–1997) in the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences. He held National Endowment for the Humanities project awards in 1976, 1979, and 1983.^[4]

In 1988, he was the Englehard Lecturer at the Library of Congress, Center for the Book ^[5]

Krummel served as a faculty member at the Rare Book School at Columbia University, which then moved to the University of Virginia (1990–2008). As of 1997, Krummel is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois.^[6]

Personal life

Donald Krummel married Marilyn Frederick (1931–2025) on June 15, 1956. They had two children, Karen and Matthew, and three grandchildren.^[7]

Honors and awards

• 2017. Bibliographical Society of America Honorary Member.
• 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music^[8]
• 2004.American Printing History Association Laureate Award
• 1999. Beta Phi Mu Award
• 1991. University of Illinois University Scholar
• 1989. Sonneck Society (Society of American Music), Lowens Award
• 1987. American Library Association G.K. Hall Award
• 1983. Music Library Association, Duckles Award
• 1976-1977.Guggenheim Fellow
• 1974-1975. University College (London) Honorary Research Fellow
• 1969-1970.Newberry Library Traveling Research Fellow
• 1969. Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies Scholar in Residence
• 1965. Henry E. Huntington Library. Grant-in-Aid

Selected publications

• Krummel, Donald W, and James B Coover. “Current National Bibliographies: Their Music Coverage.” Notes (Music Library Association) 17, no. 3 (1960): 375–88.
• Krummel, Donald W. “Observations on Library Acquisitions of Music.” Notes (Music Library Association) 23, no. 1 (1966): 5–16.
• Krummel, Donald William, and Bibliographical Society (Great Britain). 1971. Oblong Format in Early Music Books. London: Bibliographical Society.
• Krummel, Donald William. “Guide for Dating Early Music: A Synopsis.” Fontes Artis Musicae 18, no. 1/2 (1971): 40–59.
• Krummel, Donald William, and International Association of Music Libraries Commission for Bibliographical Research. 1974. Guide for Dating Early Published Music: A Manual of Bibliographical Practices. Hackensack, N.J.: J. Boonin.
• Krummel, Donald William, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress). 1975. English Music Printing, 1553-1700. London: Bibliographical Society.
• Krummel, Donald William. 1976. Musical Functions and Bibliographical Forms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Newberry Library and Donald William Krummel. 1977. Bibliographical Inventory to the Early Music in the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois. Boston: G.K. Hall.
• Krummel, Donald William. 1981. Resources of American Music History: A Directory of Source Materials from Colonial Times to World War II. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
• Krummel, Donald William. 1984. Bibliographies: Their Aims and Methods. London: Mansell Publishing Limited.
• Krummel, Donald William. 1987. Bibliographical Handbook of American Music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
• Krummel, Donald William. 1987. Citing the Score: Descriptive Bibliography and Printed Music. London: Oxford University Press.
• Krummel, Donald William, and Stanley Sadie. 1990. Music Printing and Publishing. 1st American ed. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Krummel, Donald William. 1987. Bibliographical Handbook of American Music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
• Krummel, Donald William. 1992. The Literature of Music Bibliography : An Account of the Writings on the History of Music Printing & Publishing. Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press.
• Krummel, Donald William. 1999. Fiat lux, fiat latebra: a celebration of historical library functions. Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois. Occasional Paper 209. Champaign, Ill.: Publications Office, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Krummel, Donald William, Stinehour Press, and Grolier Club. 2000. The Petrucci Centenary. Gazette of the Grolier Club. New Series. [New York]: Grolier Club.
• Krummel, D. W. “Notes: A Sixtieth Birthday Retrospective.” Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association (Music Library Association) 61, no. 1 (2004): 9–23.
• Krummel, Donald W. “Early American Imprint Bibliography and Its Stories: An Introductory Course in Bibliographical Civics.” Libraries & Culture 40, no. 3 (2005): 239–50.