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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theodor W. Adorno | Theodor W. Adorno | 1903 | 1969 | German | philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno |
| Mickey Hart | Mickey Hart | 1943 | n/a | American | percussionist and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Hart |
| Michael Nyman | Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE | 1944 | n/a | English | composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nyman |
| Alfred Einstein | Alfred Einstein | 1880 | 1952 | German | musicologist and music editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Einstein |
| Richard Taruskin | Richard Filler Taruskin | 1945 | n/a | American | musicologist and music critic who is among the leading and most prominent music historians of his generation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Taruskin |
| Otto Erich Deutsch | Otto Erich Deutsch | 1883 | 1967 | Austrian | musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Erich_Deutsch |
| Egon Wellesz | Egon Joseph Wellesz | 1885 | 1974 | null | Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Wellesz |
| Joel Rubin | Joel Rubin | null | null | American | clarinetist, Klezmer musician, Ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Jewish music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Rubin |
| Curt Sachs | Curt Sachs | 1881 | 1959 | German | musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Sachs |
| Manfred Bukofzer | Manfred Fritz Bukofzer | 1910 | 1955 | German | musicologist and humanist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Bukofzer |
| Guido Adler | Guido Adler | 1855 | n/a | Bohemian | musicologist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Adler |
| Alan W. Pollack | Alan W. Pollack | null | null | null | musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_W._Pollack |
| Isaac Rice | Isaac Leopold Rice | 1850 | 1915 | German | Jewish businessman, investor, musicologist, author, and chess patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Rice |
| Hans Gál | Hans Gál OBE | 1890 | 1987 | Austrian | composer, pedagogue, musicologist, and author, who emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gál |
| Isaac Nathan | Isaac Nathan | 1864 | n/a | English | composer, musicologist, journalist and self-publicist, who has been called the "father of Australian music" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Nathan |
| Arthur Jacobs | Arthur David Jacobs | 1922 | 1996 | English | musicologist, music critic, teacher, librettist and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Jacobs |
| Robert Greenberg | Robert M. Greenberg | 1954 | n/a | American | composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Greenberg |
| Bob Brozman | Bob Brozman | 1954 | 2013 | American | guitarist and ethnomusicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Brozman |
| Georgina Born | Georgina Emma Mary Born | null | null | British | academic, anthropologist, musicologist and musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgina_Born |
| Vladimir Jankélévitch | Vladimir Jankélévitch | 1903 | 1985 | French | philosopher and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Jankélévitch |
| Ernst Hermann Meyer | Ernst Hermann Ludimar Meyer | 1905 | 1988 | German | composer and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Hermann_Meyer |
| Adolf Bernhard Marx | Friedrich Heinrich Adolf Bernhard Marx [A. B. Marx] | 1795 | 1866 | German | music theorist, critic, and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Bernhard_Marx |
| Karl Geiringer | Karl Geiringer | 1899 | 1989 | Austrian | musicologist, educator, and biographer of composers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Geiringer |
| Sergei Slonimsky | Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky | 1932 | 2020 | Russian | composer, pianist and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Slonimsky |
| Ernst Levy | Ernst Levy | 1895 | 1981 | Swiss | musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Levy |
| Erich von Hornbostel | Erich Moritz von Hornbostel | 1877 | 1935 | Austrian | ethnomusicologist and scholar of music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Hornbostel |
| Malcolm Bilson | Malcolm Bilson | 1935 | n/a | American | pianist and musicologist specializing in 18th- and 19th-century music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Bilson |
| Abraham Zevi Idelsohn | Abraham Zevi Idelsohn | 1882 | 1938 | null | prominent Jewish ethnologist, musicologist and composer, who conducted several comprehensive studies of Jewish music around the world | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Zevi_Idelsohn |
| Michael Asch | Michael I. Asch | null | null | null | anthropologist and ethnomusicologist in Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Asch |
| Gerald Abraham | Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham | 1904 | 1988 | English | Jewish musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Abraham |
| Ernest Borneman | Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann | 1915 | 1995 | German | crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, psychoanalyst, sexologist, communist agitator, jazz musician and critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Borneman |
| Wilibald Gurlitt | Wilibald Gurlitt | 1889 | 1963 | German | musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilibald_Gurlitt |
| Mark Kopytman | Mark Kopytman | 1929 | 2011 | null | composer, musicologist and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kopytman |
| Felix Salzer | Felix Salzer | 1904 | 1986 | Austrian | music theorist, musicologist and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Salzer |
| Robert Levin (musicologist) | Robert David Levin | 1947 | n/a | American | classical pianist, musicologist and composer, and served as the artistic director of the Sarasota Music Festival from 2007 to 2017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Levin_(musicologist) |
| Siegfried Borris | Siegfried Borris | 1906 | 1987 | German | composer, musicologist and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Borris |
| Arthur Loesser | Arthur Adolph Loesser | 1894 | 1969 | American | classical pianist, musicologist, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Loesser |
| Hugo Leichtentritt | Hugo Leichtentritt | 1874 | 1951 | German | Jewish musicologist and composer who spent much of his life in the USA. His pupils include composers Leroy Robertson and Erich Walter Sternberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Leichtentritt |
| Peter Stadlen | Peter Stadlen | 1910 | 1996 | Austrian | pianist, musicologist and critic, specialising in the study and interpretation of Beethoven and the composers of the Second Viennese School | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stadlen |
| Herman Berlinski | Herman Berlinski | 1910 | 2001 | German | composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Berlinski |
| Józef Koffler | Józef Koffler | 1896 | n/a | Polish | composer, music teacher, musicologist and musical columnist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Koffler |
| Mosco Carner | Mosco Carner | 1904 | 1985 | Austrian | musicologist, conductor and critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosco_Carner |
| Théodore Reinach | Théodore Reinach | 1860 | 1928 | French | archaeologist, mathematician, lawyer, papyrologist, philologist, epigrapher, historian, numismatist, musicologist, professor, and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Théodore_Reinach |
| Joseph Yasser | Joseph Yasser | 1893 | 1981 | Russian | organist, music theorist, author, and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Yasser |
| Georg Knepler | Georg Knepler | 1906 | 2003 | Austrian | pianist, conductor and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Knepler |
| Hedi Stadlen | Hedi Stadlen | 1916 | 2004 | Austrian | Jewish philosopher, political activist, and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedi_Stadlen |
| Hankus Netsky | Hankus Netsky | null | null | American | multi-instrumentalist, composer, and ethnomusicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hankus_Netsky |
| Tamar Halperin | Tamar Halperin | 1976 | n/a | Israeli | harpsichordist, pianist and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamar_Halperin |
| Rodolphe d'Erlanger | Baron Rodolphe d'Erlanger | 1872 | 1932 | French | painter and musicologist, specializing in North Africanic music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolphe_d'Erlanger |
| Richard Specht | Richard Specht | 1870 | 1932 | Austrian | lyricist, dramatist, musicologist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Specht |
| Walter Kaufmann (composer) | Walter Kaufmann | 1907 | 1984 | null | composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, librettist and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kaufmann_(composer) |
| Helmut Kallmann | Helmut Max Kallmann | 1922 | 2012 | Canadian | musicologist, music educator, librarian, and scholar of Canadian music history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Kallmann |
| Elkan Naumburg | Elkan Naumburg | 1835 | 1924 | null | New York City merchant, banker, philanthropist and musicologist, best remembered for his sponsorship of the arts in Manhattan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkan_Naumburg |
| Danielle Cohen-Levinas | Danielle Cohen-Levinas | 1959 | n/a | French | philosopher, musicologist, and a specialist of Jewish philosophy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Cohen-Levinas |
| Bracha Zefira | Bracha Zefira | 1910 | 1990 | null | pioneering Israeli folk singer, songwriter, musicologist, and actress of Yemenite Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracha_Zefira |
| Judith Kaplan Eisenstein | Judith Kaplan | 1909 | 1996 | null | author, musicologist, composer, theologian and the first person to celebrate a bat mitzvah publicly in America (see below) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Kaplan_Eisenstein |
| Oleg Timofeyev | Oleg Vitalyevich Timofeyev | 1963 | n/a | American | musicologist, specializing in lute and Russian guitar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Timofeyev |
| Judy Feld Carr | Judith Feld Carr | 1938 | n/a | Canadian | musicologist and human rights activist known for secretly bringing to freedom thousands of Jews out of Syria over a period of 28 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Feld_Carr |
| Ernst Oster | Ernst Oster | 1908 | 1977 | German | pianist, musicologist, and music theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Oster |
| Joachim Stutschewsky | Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky | 1891 | 1982 | null | Ukraine-born Austrian cellist, composer, musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Stutschewsky |
| Ernest H. Sanders | Ernest Helmut Sanders | 1918 | 2018 | German | musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_H._Sanders |
| Judith R. Cohen | Judith Rita Cohen | 1949 | n/a | Canadian | ethnomusicologist, music educator, and performer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_R._Cohen |
| Erich Katz | Erich Katz | 1900 | 1973 | German | musicologist, composer, music critic, musician and professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Katz |
| Harry Oster | Dr. Harry Oster | 1923 | 2001 | American | folklorist and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Oster |
| Nikolay Kaufman | Nikolay Yankov Kaufman | 1925 | 2018 | Bulgarian | musicologist, folklorist and composer, sometimes cited as Bulgaria's foremost scholar in his field | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Kaufman |
| Ida Halpern | Ida Halpern | 1910 | 1987 | Canadian | ethnomusicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Halpern |
| Paul Pisk | Paul Amadeus Pisk | 1893 | 1990 | Austrian | composer and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pisk |
| Heinrich Jalowetz | Heinrich Jalowetz | 1882 | 1946 | Austrian | musicologist and conductor, who settled in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Jalowetz |
| Edwin Seroussi | Edwin Seroussi | 1952 | n/a | Israeli | musicologist of Uruguayan origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Seroussi |
| Robert Lachmann | Robert Lachmann | 1892 | 1939 | German | ethnomusicologist, polyglot (German, English, French, Arabic), orientalist and librarian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lachmann |
| Velvel Pasternak | Velvel Pasternak | 1933 | 2019 | null | musicologist, conductor, arranger, producer, and publisher specializing in Jewish music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvel_Pasternak |
| Jeanne Behrend | Jeanne Behrend | 1911 | 1988 | American | pianist, music educator, musicologist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Behrend |
| Ottalie Mark | Ottalie Mark | 1896 | 1979 | American | musicologist, copyright consultant, composer, and music editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottalie_Mark |
| Françoise Atlan | Françoise Atlan | null | null | French | singer and ethnomusicologist, born in a Sephardic Jewish family in Narbonne, France on 27 July 1964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Françoise_Atlan |
| Moisei Beregovsky | Moisei Iakovlevich Beregovsky | 1892 | 1961 | Soviet | Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist from Ukraine, who published mainly in Russian and Yiddish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisei_Beregovsky |
| Harry Brauner | Harry Brauner | 1908 | 1988 | null | ethnomusicologist, composer, and professor of music from Romania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Brauner |
| Ruth Katz | Ruth Katz | 1927 | n/a | Israeli | musicologist, a pioneer of academic musicology in Israel, professor emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Katz |
| James Simon (composer) | James Simon | 1880 | 1944 | German | composer, pianist and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Simon_(composer) |
| Abramo Basevi | Abramo Basevi | 1818 | 1885 | Italian | musicologist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramo_Basevi |
| Eleanor Mlotek | Eleanor Chana Mlotek | 1922 | 2013 | null | musicologist, specializing in Yiddish folklore | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Mlotek |
| Konrad Wolff | Konrad Wolff | 1907 | 1989 | German | pianist and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Wolff |
| Francesco Lotoro | Francesco Lotoro | 1964 | n/a | Italian | pianist, composer and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Lotoro |
| Astrith Baltsan | Astrith Baltsan | null | null | Israeli | concert pianist and musicologist, known for her Beethoven interpretation, her unique concert style reaching out for larger audiences worldwide and her research of Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrith_Baltsan |
| Leo Levi | Leo Levi | 1912 | 1982 | Italian | musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Levi |
| Sylvan Kalib | Sylvan (Sholom) Kalib | 1929 | n/a | American | music theorist, musicologist, cantor, conductor, pedagogue and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvan_Kalib |
| Alphons Silbermann | Alphons Silbermann | 1909 | 2000 | German | Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphons_Silbermann |
| Zvi Keren | Zvi Keren | 1917 | 2008 | null | New York-born Israeli pianist, musicologist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvi_Keren |
| Hugo Botstiber | Hugo Botstiber | 1875 | 1941 | Austrian | Jewish musicologist, who studied under Robert Fuchs and Guido Adler | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Botstiber |
| Dragan Plamenac | Dragan Plamenac | 1895 | 1983 | Croatian | Jewish composer and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragan_Plamenac |
| Kathinka Rebling | Kathinka Rebling | 1941 | 2020 | German | violinist and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathinka_Rebling |
| Arno Nadel | Arno Nadel | 1878 | 1943 | Lithuanian | musicologist, composer, playwright, poet, and painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Nadel |
| Kurt Singer (musicologist) | Kurt Singer | 1885 | 1944 | German | neurologist, musicologist, conductor and chairman of the Jüdischer Kulturbund | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Singer_(musicologist) |
| Avraham-Yehoshua Makonovetsky | Avraham-Yehoshua Makonovetsky | 1872 | n/a | Russian | Jewish Klezmer violinist who acted as a key informant to the Soviet Ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky in the 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham-Yehoshua_Makonovetsky |
| Max Leon | Max M. Leon | 1904 | 1984 | null | impresario, radio producer, conductor, musicologist, opera manager, referee, and businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Leon |
| Walter Dullo | Walter Andreas Dullo | 1902 | 1978 | German | musicologist and lawyer who migrated to Australia, where he became best known as a chocolate maker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dullo |
| Yitzhak Isaac Levy | Yitzhak Isaac Levy | null | null | Israeli | singer-songwriter, musicologist and composer in Judeo-Spanish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Isaac_Levy |
| Ludwig Czaczkes | Ludwig Czaczkes | 1898 | 1992 | Austrian | composer, musicologist and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Czaczkes |
| Lev Barenboim | Lev Aronovich Barenboim | 1906 | 1985 | Soviet | pianist and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Barenboim |
| Leoš Firkušný | Leoš Firkušný | null | null | Czech | musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leoš_Firkušný |
| Fritz Berend | Fritz Berend | 1889 | 1955 | null | German, later an English conductor, theater and music director as well as Kapellmeister, composer and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Berend |
| Hirsch Nissan Golomb | Hirsch Nissan Golomb | 1853 | 1934 | Russian | Hebrew writer, musicologist, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_Nissan_Golomb |
| Viktor Zuckerkandl | Viktor Zuckerkandl | 1896 | 1965 | Austrian | Jewish musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zuckerkandl |
| Judith Cabaud | Judith Cabaud | 1941 | n/a | American | writer and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Cabaud |