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Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 62 of 62
1749-02-22 - Johann Nikolaus Forkel,
musicologist/1st biographer of Bach
1773-08-29 - Raphael G Kiesewetter,
Austria musicologist (Arab Music)
1777-01-08 - Filippo Traetta,
Italy, composer/musicologist
1800-01-14 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel,
Austrian musicologist (d. 1877)
1816-11-17 - August W Ambros,
Austria musicologist (History of Music)
1826-12-03 - Edmond van der Straeten,
Belgian lawyer/musicologist
1835-12-07 - Dom Joseph Pothier,
French monk/musicologist
1840-04-21 - Franz Xaver Haberl,
German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis)
1846-11-10 - Martin Wegelius,
Finnish musicologist/composer
1848-02-27 - Charles Hubert H Parry,
England, musicologist/composer (Jerusalem)
1855-11-01 - Guido Adler,
Austria, musicologist (Still in the Music)
1855-11-13 - Daniel F Scheurleer,
Dutch musicologist/banker
1861-12-17 - Fritz Volbach,
German musicologist/conductor/composer
1862-05-02 - Marie F M Emmanuel,
French composer/musicologist (Salamine)
1868-04-16 - Joel Angel,
Russian musicologist/composer
1868-06-19 - Heinrich Schenker,
[A Niloff], Austrian musicologist (Urlinie)
1870-09-23 - John Lomax,
Miss, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist
1875-07-17 - Donald Francis Tovey,
Eton England, musicologist/composer
1876-12-07 - Ludwig Schiedermair,
German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)
1877-02-25 - Erich von Hornbostel,
Austrian musicologist (d. 1935)
1877-04-02 - Arnold Schering,
German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik)
1878-10-17 - Andrei N Rimski-Korssakov,
Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai
1879-05-06 - Johan H T Norlind,
Swedish musicologist
1880-12-30 - Alfred Einstein,
German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein
1881-06-29 - Curt Sachs,
German musicologist (d. 1959)
1882-10-12 - Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Waltershausen,
German musicologist/composer
1883-09-05 - Otto E Deutsch,
Austrian musicologist (Schubert-Brevier)
1883-11-16 - Eugeen Van de Velde,
Flemish musicologist/composer (In Tempore Belli)
1885-10-21 - Egon Joseph Wellesz,
Austria, composer/musicologist
1886-04-05 - Jacques Handschin,
Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter)
1886-06-01 - Ernst Kurth,
Austrian/Swiss musicologist
1887-03-23 - Anthony van Hoboken,
Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog)
1887-11-14 - Bernhard Paumgartner,
Austria, musicologist/conductor/composer
1890-01-22 - Vinko Zganec,
Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
1892-02-01 - K Rudolf Mengelberg,
composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall)
1893-01-05 - Friedrich Blume,
German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik)
1893-10-30 - Willi Apel,
German/US musicologist (Harvard dictionary of music)
1896-01-20 - Elmer R Diktonius,
Finnish musicologist/author (Janne Kubik)
1897-04-08 - Herbert Eimert,
German composer/musicologist (Glockenspiel)
1900-04-02 - Heinrich Besseler,
German musicologist
1901-08-28 - Paul Henry Lang,
Budapest, critic/musicologist (NY Herald Tribune)
1901-12-13 - Georg M Rimski-Korssakov,
Russian musicologist/theory [OS]
1902-10-23 - Otto J Gombosi,
Hungarian/US musicologist
1902-11-16 - Marcel Boereboom,
Belgian musicologist
1904-08-17 - Leopold Nowak,
Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
1906-10-12 - Willy Hess,
Swiss musicologist, composer and famous Beethoven scholar
1911-01-17 - Hermann Pfrogner,
Austria, musicologist (Zerrissene Orpheus)
1914-02-08 - Jules van Ackere,
Flemish musicologist (Eternal Music)
1914-09-25 - Frederick William Sternfield,
musicologist
1915-01-31 - Alan Lomax,
American musicologist (d. 2002)
1915-04-15 - Ernest Borneman,
sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist
1920-12-13 - Frits Noske,
Dutch musicologist (Signifier & the Signified
1926-01-01 - Claire Polin [Schaff],
composer flautist/musicologist
1927-03-17 - Kenneth S Goldstein,
folklorist/enthomusicologist
1927-05-05 - Charles Rosen,
NYC, pianist/musicologist (Sonata Forms)
1929-12-03 - Werner Rackwitz,
German musicologist (Handel-Renaissance)
1935-03-30 - Karl Berger,
German musicologist and musician
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 53 of 53
1103-01-17 - Frutolf,
German monk/musicologist/historian, dies
1748-03-23 - Johann Gottfried Walther,
German composer/musicologist, dies at 63
1764-04-17 - Johann Mattheson,
German composer/musicologist, dies at 82
1850-01-01 - Raphael G Kiesewetter,
Austria musicologist, dies at 76
1868-01-14 - Heinrich Schenker,
Austrian musicologist (Ursatz), dies at 66
1876-01-10 - Charles EH de Coussemaker,
Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70
1876-06-28 - August W Ambros,
Austria musicologist, dies at 59
1877-06-03 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel,
Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
1895-11-25 - Edmond van der Straeten,
Belgian lawyer/musicologist, dies at 68
1906-03-22 - Martin Wegelius,
Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59
1908-12-24 - Francois-Auguste Gevaert,
Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80
1910-09-05 - Franz Xaver Haberl,
German priest/musicologist, dies at 70
1917-02-13 - Joel Angel,
Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48
1918-10-07 - C Hubert H Parry,
Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70
1923-12-08 - Dom Joseph Pothier,
French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88
1927-02-06 - Daniel F Scheurleer,
Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at 71
1935-02-09 - Karl Nef,
Swiss musicologist, dies at 61
1935-11-28 - Erich von Hornbostel,
Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
1938-04-18 - Richard Runciman Terry,
musicologist, dies
1938-12-14 - Marie FM Emmanuel,
French composer/musicologist (Salamine), dies at 76
1940-05-23 - Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov,
Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies
1940-07-10 - Donald Francis Tovey,
English musicologist/composer, dies at 64
1940-11-30 - Fritz Volbach,
German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78
1941-03-07 - Arnold Schering,
German musicologist, dies at 63
1942-01-21 - Henryk Opienski,
Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72
1942-02-15 - Guido Adler,
Austrian musicologist, dies at 91
1947-08-13 - Johan H T Norlind,
Swedish musicologist, dies
1952-02-13 - Alfred Einstein,
German/US musicologist, dies at 71
1954-08-13 - Hermann W S Waltershausen,
German musicologist/composer, dies at 71
1955-02-17 - Otto J Gombosi,
Hungarian/US musicologist, dies at 52
1955-12-08 - Jacques Handschin,
Swiss musicologist, dies at 69
1957-04-30 - Ludwig Schiedermair,
German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80
1958-03-14 - Eugeen Van de Velde,
Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64
1961-09-23 - Elmer R Diktonius,
Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65
1973-03-26 - Safford Cape,
US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67
1974-11-09 - Egon Joseph Wellesz,
Austria, composer/musicologist, dies at 89
1976-12-12 - Vinko Zganec,
Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
1977-02-08 - Eivind Groven,
Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist (b. 1901)
1983-11-01 - Anthony van Hoboken,
Dutch musicologist (Haydn Catalog), dies at 96
1985-12-04 - Marcel Boereboom,
Belgian musicologist, dies at 83
1991-05-27 - Leopold Nowak,
Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
1991-11-08 - John Kirckpatrick,
US musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies
1993-09-15 - Frits Noske,
musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72
1994-01-13 - Frederick William Sternfield,
musicologist, dies at 79
1994-10-22 - David Buchan,
ethno-Musicologist, dies at 55
1994-11-27 - Fernando Lopes-Graça,
Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
1995-11-11 - Kenneth Goldstein,
folklorist/enthomusicologist, dies at 68
1995-12-25 - Nikolai [Nicolas Leonidovich] Slonimsky,
musicologist, dies at 101
1996-10-08 - Harold Watkins Shaw,
musicologist, dies at 85
1996-12-18 - Arthur Jacobs,
musicologist, dies at 74
2007-11-29 - Tom Terrell,
musicologist, NPR reviewer, deejay (b. 1950)
2010-03-17 - Charlie Gillett,
British musicologist and radio presenter (b. 1942)
2010-11-23 - James Tyler,
American musicologist and author (b. 1940)
