Herbert Oberlag, associate professor of music at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville since 1965, died Saturday, October 11 of an apparent heart attack. He was 51.
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he was well known as an oboist, having played with the St. Louis Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the St. Louis Little Symphony, and the St. Louis Bach Society. He received the bachelor of music degree from the St. Louis Institute of Music and master's and doctor's degrees in music from Indiana University.
Professor Oberlag taught music at Baldwin-Wallace in Berea, Ohio before joining the faculty at SIUE. He was past chairman of the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, life member of the Music Educators National Conference, Illinois Music Educators Association, Pi Kappa Lambda, and Phi Mu Alpha. He was also an IDRS member.
Survivors include his wife Margaret, a daughter, Jane Ann, and three sons, Gregory, Dale and Clark, all of Edwardsville; a sister, Mrs. Dorothy (Lester) Buescher of Wright City, Missouri.
A music scholarship in memory of Professor Oberlag has been established at SIUE. Contributions may be given to the SIUE Foundation, Oberlag Scholarship Fund, Box 82, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 62026.
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Otto Steinkopf, "Nestor" of the revival of historical woodwind instruments died on 17 February 1980 in Celle at the age of 75.
Originally a bassoonist and a saxophonist (Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Berlin Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic and Radio Symphony Orchestras; later particularly Cappella Coloniensis), he restored in 1950 the woodwind instruments of the Berlin collection of musical instruments and then started a workshop in Berlin in which he also reconstructed the technically rather difficult woodwind instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque periods (crumhorns, cornamuses, kortholtes, ranketts, dulcianes, shawms, cornetts, baroque oboes and bassoons, transverse flutes, chalumeaux and others), a work which he continued within Moeck Verlag und Musikinstrumentenwerk as of 1964.
After Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), in the initiative of whom the reawakening of interest in recorders, gambas and quilled keyboard instruments mainly has its origin, Otto Steinkopf launched after 1950 a second phase of the revival of historic musical instruments.