- Marc Geelhoed
Marc Geelhoed was born November 18, 1977 in Muncie, Indiana and planned on a career as a trumpet-player before turning to journalism. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music at Butler University in Indianapolis, in 2000, where he studied trumpet with Daniel Gosling. While at Butler, Geelhoed was Principal Trumpet in the Butler Symphony Orchestra for three semesters and played the first trumpet parts to Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, … - Stanley Sadie
Stanley Sadie CBE (October 30 1930-March 21 2005) was a British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the "Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians" (1980), which was published as the first edition of the "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians". Sadie was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read music under Thurston Dart (BA, MusB 1953, MA 1957, PhD 1958). - Carl Dahlhaus
Carl Dahlhaus (born June 10 1928 in Hanover, died May 1989 Berlin), a musicologist from Berlin, has been one of the major contributors to the development of musicology as a scholarly discipline during the post-war era. He wrote numerous books and articles on a wide range of subjects within the field, though the majority of these on the history of western music and particularly that of the 19th century (i.e. Romantic music). - Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Jean-Jacques Nattiez is a musical semiologist or semiotician and professor of Musicology at the Université de Montréal. He studied semiology with Georges Mounin and Jean Molino and music semiology (doctoral) with Nicolas Ruwet. He is a noted specialist on the writings of the composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. In 1990, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2001, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. - Bruno Nettl
Bruno Nettl (b. Prague, Czechoslovakia, 14 March 1930) is a key figure in ethnomusicology and musicology. Bruno Nettl was born in Czechoslovakia in 1930, moved to United States in 1939, studied at Indiana University and the University of Michigan, and has taught since 1964 at the University of Illinois, where he is Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, continuing to teach part-time. - Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 - July 19, 2002) was an important American folklorist and musicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, the West Indies, Italy, and Spain. - Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno was a German sociologist, philosopher, pianist, musicologist, and composer. He was a member of the Frankfurt School along with Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, and others. He was also the Music Director of the Radio Project. Already as a young music critic and amateur sociologist, Theodor W. Adorno was primarily a philosophical thinker. - Christoph Wolff
Christoph Wolff (born May 24, 1940) is a German-born musicologist, presently on the faculty of Harvard University. Born and educated in Germany, Wolff studied organ and historical keyboard instruments, musicology and art history at the Universities of Berlin, Erlangen, and Freiburg, receiving a performance diploma in 1963 and a Dr. Phil. in 1966. Wolff taught the history of music at Erlangen, Toronto, Princeton, … - Hugo Riemann
Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann was a German musicologist. He is sometimes referred to simply as "Riemann" in material on music theory and musicology, but should not be confused with the mathematician Bernhard Riemann, who is more commonly known by that name in other contexts. Riemann was born at Grossmehlra, near Sondershausen. He was educated in law and other subjects at Berlin and Tübingen. - Guido Adler
Guido Adler (November 1, 1855, Ivančice (Eibenschütz), Moravia - February 15 1941, Vienna) was a Bohemian-Austrian musicologist and writer. His father Joachim, a physician, died of typhoid fever in 1857. Joachim contracted the illness from a patient, and therefore told his wife Franciska to "never allow any of the children to become a doctor". - Curt Sachs
Curt Sachs (June 29, 1881 - February 5, 1959) was a German musicologist. He was one of the founders of modern organology (the study of musical instruments), and is probably best remembered today for co-authoring the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme of musical instrument classification with Erich von Hornbostel. Sachs was born in Berlin. In his youth, he studied piano, music theory and composition. - Ton Koopman
Ton Koopman (born October 12, 1944 in Zwolle, Netherlands) is a conductor, organist and harpsichordist. Koopman had a "classical education" and then studied the organ (with Simon C. Jansen), harpsichord (with Gustav Leonhardt) and musicology in Amsterdam. He specialized in Baroque music and received the Prix d'Excellence for both organ and harpsichord. - Eero Tarasti
Eero Tarasti is a Finnish musicologist and semiotician, currently serving as Professor of Musicology at the University of Helsinki. After receiving his Ph.D. degree at the University of Helsinki in 1978, Tarasti served a while at the University of Jyväskylä, appointed as Professor of arts education in 1979-1983 and professor of musicology in 1983-1984. In 1984 he attained position as professor of Musicology in Helsinki. - Joshua Rifkin
Joshua Rifkin is an American conductor, keyboard player, and musicologist. He studied with Vincent Persichetti in the Music Division at the Juilliard School and received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1964. He also studied with Gustave Reese at New York University (1964-1966), at the University of Göttingen (1966-1967), and later with Mendel, Lockwood, Milton Babbitt, and Oster at Princeton University where he received his M.F.A. in 1969. - Gustave Reese
Gustave Reese was an American musicologist and teacher. Reese is mainly known for his work on medieval and Renaissance music, particularly with his two publications "Music in the Middle Ages" (1940) and "Music in the Renaissance" (1954); these two books remain the standard reference works for these two eras, with complete and precise bibliographical material, allowing for almost every piece of music mentioned to be traced back to a primary source. - Friedrich Blume
Friedrich Blume (born 1894: died 22 November 1976) was professor of Musicology in Kiel University from 1938-1958. He was a student in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig, and taught in the last two of these for some years before being called to the chair in Kiel. His early studies were on Lutheran church music, including several books on J.S. Bach, but broadened his interests considerably later. Among his prominent works were chief editor of the collected Praetorious edition, … - Sanaa Hamri
Moroccan-born Sanaa Hamri is an American music video director. She is one of the few prominent female music video directors. Her videos include but are not limited to Jadakiss's "U Make Me Wanna", Prince's "Musicology" and Mariah Carey's "Crybaby" and "Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)", and Mariah Carey's unreleased video Last Night a DJ Saved My Life. Production began in March 2005 on Focus Features' "Something New", … - Edwin Seroussi
Edwin Seroussi is a leading contemporary musicologist. Currently professor of musicology and director of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he examines Jewish musical traditions in North Africa and the Middle East, as well as Israeli popular music. Seroussi's publications include "Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Reform Sources from Hamburg" (1996) and the "Cancionero sefardi" (1995) by Alberto Hemsi. - Guerino Mazzola
Guerino Mazzola is a Swiss mathematican, musicologist, and jazz pianist. He graduated at the University of Zürich in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Crystallography and completed his PhD in Mathematics in 1971. In 1980, he habilitated in Algebraic Geometry and Representation theory. In 2000, he was awarded the medal of the Mexican Mathematical Society. In 2003, he habilitated in Computational Sciences at the University of Zürich. - Anthony Newcomb
Anthony Newcomb ("b." August 6 1941) is an American musicologist. He was born in New York and studied at the University of California, Berkeley where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962. He then studied with Gustav Leonhardt in Holland while on a Fulbright Scholarship. He received an MFA (1965) and Ph.D from Princeton University in 1969. In 1968 he joined the music faculty at Harvard University, and left in 1973 to join the faculty at Berkeley. - Wanda Landowska
Wanda Landowska (July 5, 1879 - August 16, 1959), was a Polish (later a naturalized French citizen) harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of that instrument in the early 20th century. She was the first person to record Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord (1931). Landowska is easily recognized for her beautiful profile, with aquiline nose, as she was often photographed while playing. - Constantin Floros
Constantin Floros (b. Thessaloniki 4 January 1930) is a Greek musicologist. He studied law at the University of Thessaloniki (1947-1951) and then composition and conducting at the Vienna Music Academy. At the same time he studied musicology with Erich Schenk at Vienna University as well as art history (with C. Swoboda), philosophy and psychology. In 1955 he obtained the doctorate in Vienna with a dissertation on Campioni. - Felix Salzer
Felix Salzer (June 13, 1904-August 12, 1986) was an Austrian-American music theorist, musicologist and pedagogue. He was one of the principal followers of Heinrich Schenker, and did much to refine and explain Schenkerian analysis after Schenker's death. He was born in Vienna, and studied musicology with Guido Adler at the University of Vienna, finishing his Ph.D. in 1926 with a dissertation on sonata form in the works of Franz Schubert. - Hans Keller
Hans Keller (1919-1985) was an Austrian-born British musician and writer who made significant contributions to musicology and music criticism, and invented the method of 'Wordless Functional Analysis' (in which a work is analysed in musical sound alone, without any words being heard or read). Keller was born into a well-to-do and culturally well-connected Jewish family in Vienna, and as a boy was taught by the same Oskar Adler who had, decades earlier, … - Cliff Eisen
Cliff Eisen is a Canadian musicologist and one of the world's leading Mozart experts. He is based in the Department of Music at King's College London. As part of the Department's strong connections with the Royal Academy of Music, Eisen also leads courses there. He has studied at the University of Toronto, at Cornell University and has taught at the University of Western Ontario and New York University. - Thurston Dart
Robert Thurston Dart (September 3, 1921 - March 6, 1971), was an eminent British musicologist, conductor and keyboard player. From 1964 he was Professor of Music at King's College London. He studied keyboard instruments at the Royal College of Music in London from 1938 to 1939, and also studied mathematics at University College, Exeter (B.Sc. 1942). In 1947 he was appointed assistant lecturer in music at the University of Cambridge, subsequently lecturer (1952), … - Frans Brüggen
Frans Brüggen is a Dutch conductor and recorder player. He was born in Amsterdam and studied recorder and flute at the Amsterdam Muzieklyceum. He also studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam. In 1955, at the age of 21, he was appointed professor at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He has had a brilliant career as a soloist, as well as founding the Orchestra of the 18th Century in 1981. He has also conducted many major European orchestras, … - H. C. Robbins Landon
Howard Chandler Robbins Landon (born March 6, 1926) is a musicologist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and studied music at Swarthmore College and Boston University. He subsequently moved to Europe where he worked as a music critic. From 1947 he did research in Vienna on Joseph Haydn, a composer on whom he would become a noted expert. His book "Symphonies of Joseph Haydn" was published in 1955, … - Don Michael Randel
Don Michael Randel (born December 9, 1940) is a prominent American musicologist, the fifth president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a member of the editorial board of Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has previously served as the twelfth president of the University of Chicago, as Provost of Cornell University, and as Dean of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. In his academic work, Randel specializes in the music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. - Colin McPhee
Colin McPhee was a Canadian composer and musicologist. He is primarily known for being the first Western composer to make an ethnomusicological study of Bali, and for the quality of that groundbreaking work. He also composed music influenced by that of Bali and Java decades before such world music–based compositions became widespread. - Alan Tyson
Alan Walker Tyson (October 27, 1926 - November 10, 2000) was a British musicologist who specialized in studies of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. He was Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. One of his most celebrated publications was "Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores," whose chapters detailed the study of watermarks in Mozart's autographs as a method of dating the scores. - John Deathridge
John Deathridge (born in Birmingham, 21 October 1944) is an English musicologist, regarded as one of the world's foremost Wagner experts and a noted authority on Beethoven. He is King Edward VII Professor of Music at King's College London as well as the Head of the prestigious Department of Music, and has been active as a conductor, … - Davitt Moroney
Davitt Moroney (born 1950) is a British-born musicologist, harpsichordist and organist. His parents were Irish and Italian. He performed his undergraduate and graduate studies in musicology at King's College London, the faculty of which included Thurston Dart, a great influence on the world of early music. Moroney later pursued advanced harpsichord studies with Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt. - Joscelyn Godwin
Joscelyn Godwin (born 16 January 1945 at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England) is a musicologist, writer and translator. He was educated as a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, then at Radley College (Music Scholar), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (Music Scholar; B.A., 1965, Mus. B., 1966, M.A. 1969). He moved to the USA in 1966 to undertake post-graduate work in musicology at Cornell University, … - François-Joseph Fétis
François-Joseph Fétis, Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher. He was one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century, and his enormous compilation of biographical data in the "Biographie universelle des musiciens" remains an important source of information today. He was born in Mons, Hainaut, and was trained as a musician by his father, who followed the same calling. His talent for composition manifested itself at the age of seven, … - Gerhard Kubik
Born in Vienna on December 10th, 1934, Gerhard Kubik studied ethnology, musicology and African languages at the University of Vienna. He published his doctoral dissertation in 1971 and achieved habilitation in 1980. Gerhard has made many publications since 1959, especially on the music, dance and oral traditions of Africa and of African-Americans based on his field research in 15 African countries as well as Venezuela and Brazil. - Deryck Cooke
Deryck Cooke was a British musicologist who was born in Leicester. He studied at Cambridge University and spent two stints working for the BBC music department (1947-59 and 1965-76). He prepared (in association with Berthold Goldschmidt, David Matthews and Colin Matthews) a "performing version" of the unfinished draft of Mahler's 10th Symphony, … - Julianne Baird
Julianne Baird is an American soprano best known for her singing in Baroque works, in both opera and sacred music. She has nearly 100 recordings to her credit and is a well-traveled recitalist and soloist with major symphony orchestras. She is also a noted teacher of voice. Baird studied voice and musicology at the Eastman School of Music, a Diploma in Performance Practice from the Salzburg Mozarteum, … - Herbert Eimert
Herbert Eimert was a German music theorist, musicologist, journalist, music critic, editor, radio producer, and composer. - Marina Karaseva
Marina Karaseva (born August 8 1958, Moscow) is a Russian musicologist, Professor of Moscow Conservatory, Department of Music Theory, Grand Doctor in Art, Ph.D. in Musicology, Member of Russian Composers Union, Fulbright Scholar.
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