August Wilhelm Ambros

August Wilhelm Ambros (born Nov. 17, 1816, Vysoké Mýto, near Prague—died June 28, 1876, Vienna) was a musicologist, author of Geschichte der Musik, a comprehensive history of music. Ambros studied law, entered the civil service in 1840, and became public prosecutor in Prague in 1850. A keen, well-trained musician and composer of a Czech opera, Bretislaw a Jitka, he also established himself as a brilliant writer on music. His pamphlet Über die Grenzen der Poesie...