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Jan LaRue (1918 – 17 October 2004) was a musicologist and professor of music.

Early Life
LaRue was born in Sumatra, Indonesia. His father was the botanist Carl LaRue (1888-1955) and his mother Evelina Brown Forman. His father was influenced by the botanist, Dr. Adrian John Pieters which was his namesake.

Career
LaRue graduated from Harvard in 1940. He received an M.F.A. from Princeton University in 1942. He taught at Wellesley College from 1942-43.

He joined the U. S. Army during World War II and serving in the Pacific theater.

At Wellesley Collage, he was Chairman of the Department of Music. LaRue was emeritus professor of music at New York University. He was an expert on 18th-century music. He compiled a database of nearly 17,000 symphonic themes.

His work was pioneering in computer databases for musicological research.

LaRue was a member of the Salzburg Mozarteum, an institute for Mozart research. In 2003, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Awards

 * Guggenheim Fellow 1964

AMS award given in his name.