Solomon Volkov

Solomon Volkov

male, 65 years old
Russian, testimony, Musicologist, musicology, St. Petersburg A Cultural History
Solomon Volkov (born 1944) is a Russian journalist/musicologist. He is best known for "Testimony", which he published in 1979 following his...
Mike Seeger

Mike Seeger

male, 76 years old
from New York City, New Lost City Ramblers, autoharp, Appalachian dulcimer, musicology, fiddle
Mike Seeger (b. August 15 1933 in New York, New York) is an American folk musician and folklorist. He was exposed to traditional music through his...
Hugh Davies

Hugh Davies

male, deceased (2005)
British, University of Oxford, musical instrument, composer, Electronic musician, Musicologist…musicology
Hugh Seymour Davies was a musicologist, composer, and inventor of musical instruments. Davies was born in Exmouth, Devon, England. After attending...
Donald Francis Tovey

Donald Francis Tovey

male, deceased (1940)
Scottish, Piano Concerto, composer, writer, pianist, university of edinburgh…musicology
Sir Donald Francis Tovey (July 17, 1875 - July 10, 1940) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer and pianist. He is...
Alejandro Planchart

Alejandro Planchart

male, 74 years old
From Caracas, Venezuelan-American, Renaissance music, early music, Renaissance, Venezuelan…musicology
Alejandro Enrique Planchart (born July 29, 1935) is a Venezuelan-American musicologist, conductor, and composer. He is considered to be one of the...
Philipp Spitta

Philipp Spitta

male
historian, German, Musicologist, music history, musicology, music historian
Julius August Philipp Spitta (7 December 1841 - 13 April 1894) was a German music historian and musicologist best known for his 1873 biography of...

Paul Bekker

male
Yale University, German, music critic, musicology, musicological
Paul Bekker (September 11, 1882 - March 7, 1937) was one of the most articulate and influential German music critics of the 19th century. The music...
Konrad Boehmer

Konrad Boehmer

male, 68 years old
Institute for Sonology, Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Sonology, utrecht university, serialism, marxism…musicology
Konrad Boehmer (born May 24, 1941) is a Dutch composer and writer of German birth. Boehmer was born in Berlin. His music reflects his Marxist...
Angelo Gilardino

Angelo Gilardino

male, 68 years old
cello, alessandria, violin, variation, vibraphone, duet…musicology
Angelo Gilardino (born 1941 in Vercelli) is an Italian composer, guitarist and musicologist. During his concert career, from 1958 to 1981, he...

Jan Swafford

male, 63 years old
Harvard University, classicism, Boston Conservatory, Yale School of Music, September 11, 2001 attacks, blues…musicology
Jan Swafford (born 1946) is an American composer and author who teaches composition, theory, and musicology at the Boston Conservatory and writing...