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Born June 29, 1881 • Berlin • Germany
Died February 5, 1959 (aged 77) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study music • musical instrument • classification
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Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
French art dealer and publisher
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Victor-Charles Mahillon
Belgian music scholar
Praetorius, Michael
Michael Praetorius
German musician
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Robert Eitner
German musicologist
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Hugo Riemann
German musicologist
Mattheson, detail of an engraving by J.J. Haid after a painting by J.S. Wahl
Johann Mattheson
German musician and writer
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Wilhelm von Bode
German art critic
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
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Alfred Einstein
German-American musicologist and critic
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Erich Moritz von Hornbostel
Austrian musicologist
Dolmetsch, pen-and-ink drawing by Edmond X. Kapp, 1920; in a private collection
Arnold Dolmetsch
British musician
Sir George Grove
Sir George Grove
British writer
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Johannes Tinctoris
Belgian composer
Lonnie G. Bunch III
Lonnie G. Bunch III
American museum director
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
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Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
American museum curator
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer