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Donate The American Musicological Society is sad to announce that former AMS member Edward Leon Kottick passed away on 6 December 2025, at the age of 95 in Kansas City, Missouri. He was a musician, musicologist, educator, author, instrument builder, and conductor especially devoted to the music and instruments of the renaissance and medieval periods. Edward taught at Alma College in Alma, Michigan, University of Kansas in Lawrence, and University of Missouri – St. Louis before joining the University of Iowa in 1968, where he taught for 24 years. He helped found the Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society and served several terms on its board. He also served several terms on the Board of the American Musical Instrument Society and was a member of the editorial board of the Early Keyboard Journal and the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society for many years.
We invite you to read more about the life and works of Edward Leon Kottick on the Iowa City Press-Citizen website.
