Maynard Solomon

Maynard Solomon (born January 5, 1930 in New York City, New York, USA) founded Vanguard Records together with his brother Seymour Solomon in 1950, becoming its vice-president. The label played an important role in the folk and blues boom for the next fifteen years. As well as producing many albums, he was a musicologist and prolific writer of liner notes. More recently, he has become known for his biographical studies of Viennese classical composers. Author of Mozart: A Life, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography which won the Deems Taylor Award, as did his biography of Ludwig van Beethoven and his study of Charles Ives. His Beethoven Essays won the Otto Kinkeldey Award for most distinguished book on music published in 1988. Co-founder of The Bach Guild.