Abstract
Richard S. Hill was a seminal figure in the field of music librarianship-the editor of Notes for seventeen years, the first president of the International Association of Music Libraries, and reference librarian extraordinaire to the music lovers and musicologists of the world. It is no exaggeration to say that he played a part in almost every major work of musical scholarship written during his career. Despite his professional eminence, there was nothing snobbish or exclusive about him. His friends knew him as a superb cook who loved to eat well, a delightful, if sometimes absent-minded host, and an amusing companion. It is highly appropriate that his career be recalled as part of the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Association to which he gave so much. The kindest of men, he took a friendly interest in a young librarian, fresh from library school, enabling me to play a very minor role in his adventures in the Germany left devastated by World War II. When he went abroad, he generously invited me to occupy his apartment in Washington where housing was all but unobtainable. In return I attended to his personal business in his absence, so on occasion he wrote me letters that tell much of the man and his mission.
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