Egon Wellesz

Egon Wellesz (born Oct. 21, 1885, Vienna, Austria—died Nov. 9, 1974, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng.) was an Austrian composer and musicologist, highly esteemed as an authority on Byzantine music. A pupil of Guido Adler in musicology and of Arnold Schoenberg in composition, Wellesz taught at the University of Vienna (1930–38) before settling in England (1939), where he became an influential teacher at the University of Oxford. His scholarly work ensured his importance in the history of...