Max Schoen (February 11, 1888 – May 27, 1959) was an American music educator, psychologist and scholar.

Life

Max Schoen was born in the

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on February 11, 1888. He came to the United States in 1900, and was naturalized as a US citizen in 1918. He gained his BA from the

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in 1911 and a

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from the

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in 1921. He taught at

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from 1922 until 1947, retiring as Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology and Education. After retirement he held visiting lectureships at Coe College, Iowa and

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.Faculty Bulletin
Carnegie Institute of Technology, June 3, 1959 He died in

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on May 27, 1959.

Works

* (ed.) ''The Effects of Music. A series of essays'', London: Kegan Paul & Co., 1927.

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* ''The beautiful in music'', London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1928 * ''Human nature: a first book in psychology'', New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1930 * ''Art and beauty'', New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932 * ''The psychology of music: a survey for teacher and musician'', New York: Ronald Press, 1940 * (with Laurance F. Schaffer and B. von Haller Gilmer) ''Psychology'', New York: Harper, 1940 * ''Bibliography of experimental studies on the psychology of music to 1936'', 1940/1941 * (ed.) ''The enjoyment of the arts'', New York: Philosophical Library, 1944 * ''Human nature in the making'', Kingswood: Worlds Work, 1947 * (with H. G. Schrickel and

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) ''Understanding the world: an introduction to philosophy'', New York & London: Harper & Bros, 1947 * (ed. with Dorothy M. Schullian) ''Music and medicine'', New York: H. Schumann, 1948 * ''The man Jesus was'', New York: A. A. Knopf, 1950 * (ed.) ''The effects of music: a series of essays'', Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1968

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schoen, Max 1888 births 1959 deaths American music psychologists 20th-century American psychologists Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States Carnegie Mellon University faculty City College of New York alumni University of Iowa alumni