{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Use Canadian English|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Eric McLean | image = | image_upright = | image_size = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date|1919|09|25|df=y}} | birth_place = | origin = Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|2002|08|19|1919|09|25|df=y}} | death_place = | genre = | occupation = Pianist, music critic, historian | instrument = Piano | years_active = <!-- YYYY–YYYY (or –present) --> | label = | associated_acts = | website = <!-- {{URL|www.example.com}} --> }} '''Eric McLean''' (25 September 1919{{snds}}19 August 2002) was a Canadian pianist, music critic, and historian. From 1979 to 1988 he was the music critic for the ''Montreal Gazette'' in Canada, and retired as their critic emeritus.<ref name="cana ency" /> His overall career spanned 60 years.<ref name="60 years" />
In April 2003, McLean's personal papers were donated to the Marvin Duchow Music Library at McGill University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/subjects/music/special/eric-mclean-collection|title=Eric McLean Collection {{!}} McGill Library – McGill University|website=www.mcgill.ca|access-date=20 April 2016}}</ref> The Eric McLean Collection is a multimedia assemblage of texts, photographs, recorded interviews, musical scores, musicological monographs, and an LP record collection of over 7,000 items. The collection includes the concert diary inherited by McLean from Hugh Poynter Bell, former Montreal Star music and art critic. The diary shows Montreal concert life during the period of 1923{{ndash}}1949 and consists of his concert reviews which highlight the importance of Montreal, during the first half of the twentieth century, as a major North American musical centre.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mcgill.worldcat.org/search?q=eric+mclean&qt=notfound_page&scope=2&oldscope=2&fq=&search=Search |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104044920/https://mcgill.worldcat.org/search?q=eric+mclean&qt=notfound_page&scope=2&oldscope=2&fq=&search=Search |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 November 2019 |title=Results for 'eric mclean' [McGill University Library] |website=mcgill.worldcat.org |access-date=20 April 2016 }}</ref>
== Works ==
"Hanslick had it better", ''World of Music'', vol 14, No. 3, 1972
"Eric McLean remembers", ''Music McGill'', spring 1992
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<ref name="60 years">{{cite web|url=http://music.library.mcgill.ca/bell-mclean/ |title=A New Web Resource: The Eric McLean Collection at the Marvin Duchow Music Library |date= |author=John Black |author2=David Curtis |author3=Cynthia Leive |author4=Ilene McKenna |author5=Christopher Moore |work=McGill University |accessdate=4 April 2016 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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== Bibliography ==
* ''McGill: A celebration'', Music McGill, Spring 1992 * "Eric McLean at Papineau House", Montreal Gazette, 3 September 1995 * [https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/4/7/m15-424-e.html Music archives ~ National Library of Canada]
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* [http://mcgill.worldcat.org/search?q=kw%3A%22eric+mclean%22&qt=advanced&dblist=239%2C283%2C638 McGill University Library resources] * [https://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/subjects/music/special/eric-mclean-collection The Eric McLean Collection at the Marvin Duchow Music Library, McGill University]
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