Max Schoen
Max Schoen was an American music educator, psychologist and scholar.
Life
Max Schoen was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire 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 City College of New York in 1911 and a PhD from the University of Iowa in 1921. He taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology 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 Fisk University in Nashville.
He died in Pittsburgh on May 27, 1959.
Works
The Effects of Music. A series of essays, London: Kegan Paul & Co., 1927. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific MethodThe beautiful in music, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1928Human nature: a first book in psychology, New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1930Art and beauty, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932The psychology of music: a survey for teacher and musician, New York: Ronald Press, 1940Psychology, New York: Harper, 1940Bibliography of experimental studies on the psychology of music to 1936, 1940/1941The enjoyment of the arts, New York: Philosophical Library, 1944Human nature in the making, Kingswood: Worlds Work, 1947Understanding the world: an introduction to philosophy, New York & London: Harper & Bros, 1947Music and medicine, New York: H. Schumann, 1948The man Jesus was, New York: A. A. Knopf, 1950The effects of music: a series of essays, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1968