Putnam Aldrich

Putnam Calder Aldrich (July 14, 1904 – April 18, 1975) was an American harpsichordist, musicologist and Professor of Music at Stanford University. He is credited with creating the Ph.D. music program at Stanford University, for "establishing the first union of the disciplines of musicology and performance technique" and for developing the first graduate program in Early music in the country.

In the introduction to 1978 reprint of Aldrich's ''Ornamentation in J. S. Bach's Organ Works'' (1951), Rosalyn Tureck wrote that

Among his students were Daniel Pinkham, Erich Schwandt(Eastman School of Music and University of Victoria), musicologists George Houle (Stanford University), William Mahrt (Stanford University), Newman Powell, Don Franklin (University of Pittsburgh), Carol Marsh (University of North Carolina - Greensboro), and Margaret Fabrizio. Provided by Wikipedia