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19th-century musicologists

205 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Abraham Zevi IdelsohnPerson · Music memorabiliaAbraham Zevi Idelsohn (Avrohom Tzvi Idelsohn in Ashkenazi Hebrew; middle name also rendered Tzvi, Zvi, Zwi, or Zebi;
Abramo BaseviPerson · Music memorabiliaAbramo Basevi (December 1818 – November 1885) was an Italian musicologist and composer.
Albert LavignacPerson · Music memorabiliaAlexandre Jean Albert Lavignac (alɛksɑ̃dʁ ʒɑ̃ albɛʁ laviɲak; 21 January 1846 – 28 May 1916) was a French music scholar, known for his essays on theory, and a minor composer.
Alberto NepomucenoPerson · Music memorabiliaAlberto Nepomuceno (July 6, 1864October 16, 1920) was a Brazilian composer and conductor.
Alexander GlazunovPerson · Music memorabiliaAlexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (– 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period.
Alexander KoshetzPerson · Music memorabiliaAlexander Antonovich Koshetz (also transliterated as Oleksandr Antonovych Koshyts;
Alexander TcherepninPerson · Music memorabiliaAlexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Черепни́н, romanized: Aleksandr Nikolayevich Cherepnin;
Alexander VeprikPerson · Music memorabiliaAlexander Moiseyevich Veprik, also Weprik, (Олександр Мойсейович Веприк, Oleksandr Mojsejovyč Vepryk;
Alexander Wheelock ThayerPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Alfred EinsteinAuthor · BooksAlfred Einstein (December 30, 1880February 13, 1952) was a German-American musicologist and music editor.
Alois HábaPerson · Music memorabiliaAlois Hába (21 June 1893 – 18 November 1973) was a Czech composer, music theorist and teacher.
Amintore GalliPerson · Music memorabiliaAmyntor "Amintore" Flaminio Claudio Galli (12 October 1845 – 8 December 1919) was an Italian music publisher, journalist, historian, musicologist, and composer.
Anthony van HobokenPerson · Music memorabiliaAnthony van Hoboken (lang; 23 March 1887 – 1 November 1983) was a Dutch musical collector, bibliographer, and musicologist.
Antoine-François MarmontelPerson · Music memorabiliaAntoine François Marmontel (ɑ̃twan fʁɑ̃swa maʁmɔ̃tɛl; 18 July 1816 – 16 January 1898) was a French pianist, composer, teacher and musicographer.
Anton BrucknerPerson · Music memorabiliaJoseph Anton Bruckner (4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer and organist best known for his symphonies and sacred music, which includes Masses, Te Deum and motets.
Antonín DvořákPerson · Music memorabiliaAntonín Leopold Dvořák (8September 18411May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the…
Arnold SchoenbergPerson · Music memorabiliaArnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American modernist composer, music theorist, and teacher associated with developing variation, the…
Arthur De GreefPerson · Music memorabiliaArthur De Greef was a Belgian pianist, composer, musicologist, music educator and musician (1862–1940). He was born in Leuven and died in Brussels metropolitan area.
Arthur FootePerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Arthur Foote as a young man
Arthur HoneggerPerson · Music memorabiliaOscar-Arthur Honegger (lang; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six.
Arthur SullivanPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Sullivan in 1888
August HalmPerson · Music memorabiliaAugust Otto Halm (26 October 1869 – 1 February 1929) was a German music theorist, music educationist and composer.
August Wilhelm AmbrosPerson · Music memorabiliaAugust Wilhelm Ambros (17 November 1816 – 28 June 1876) was an Austrian music historian, critic and composer of Czech descent.
Béla BartókPerson · Music memorabiliaBartók Béla Viktor János
Bernard RogersPerson · Music memorabiliaBernard Rogers (4 February 1893 – 24 May 1968) was an American composer. His best known work is The Passion, an oratorio written in 1942.
Calixa LavalléePerson · Music memorabiliaCalixa Lavallée (kaliksa lavale; December 28, 1842 – January 21, 1891) was a Canadian musician and Union Army band musician during the American Civil War.
Carl OrffPerson · Music memorabiliaCarl Heinrich Maria Orff (10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator who is best known for composing the cantata Carmina Burana and formulating concepts of his…
Carlos ChávezPerson · Music memorabiliaCarlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican…
Charles GounodPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Gounod in 1860 soon after his greatest success, Faust
Charles KoechlinPerson · Music memorabiliaCharles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin (27 November 186731 December 1950), commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and musicologist.
Charles MalherbePerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Charles Malherbe
Charles-Émile PoisotPerson · Music memorabiliaCharles Poisot (7 July 1822 – 4 March 1904) was a French musician from the second half of the 19th century.
Christian SindingPerson · Music memorabiliaChristian August Sinding (11 January 18563 December 1941) was a Norwegian composer. He is best known for his lyrical work for piano Frühlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring, 1896).
Clarence Cameron WhitePerson · Music memorabiliaClarence Cameron White (August 10, 1880 – June 30, 1960) was an American neoromantic composer and concert violinist.
Constantin BrăiloiuPerson · Music memorabiliaConstantin Brăiloiu (13 August 1893 – 20 December 1958) was a Romanian composer and internationally known ethnomusicologist.
Curt SachsPerson · Music memorabiliaCurt Sachs (German: [zaks]; 29 June 1881 – 5 February 1959) was a German musicologist. He was one of the founders of modern organology (the study of musical instruments).
Daniel Alomía RoblesPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Alomía Robles c.
Daniel Gregory MasonPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Daniel Gregory Mason circa 1915
Dimitri ArakishviliPerson · Music memorabiliaDimitri Arakishvili (Georgian: დიმიტრი არაყიშვილი; 11 February 1873 – 13 August 1953) was a Soviet and Georgian composer and ethnomusicologist who is considered one of the founding fathers…
Donald ToveyPerson · Music memorabiliaSir Donald Francis Tovey (17 July 1875 – 10 July 1940) was a British music analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist.
Douglas MoorePerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Douglas Moore
Edgard VarèsePerson · Music memorabiliaEdgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (French: [ɛdɡaʁ viktɔʁ aʃil ʃaʁl vaʁɛz]; also spelled Edgar;
Eduard HanslickPerson · Music memorabiliaEduard Hanslick (11 September 1825 – 6 August 1904) was an Austrian music critic, aesthetician and historian.
Edward DannreutherPerson · Music memorabiliaEdward George Dannreuther (4 November 1844, in Strasbourg – 12 February 1905, in Hastings) was a pianist and writer on music, resident from 1863 in England.
Edward Joseph DentPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Dent at King's College, Cambridge, 1900
Egon KornauthPerson · Music memorabiliaEgon Kornauth (14 May 1891 – 28 October 1959) was an Austrian composer and music teacher. Kornauth was among the most important 20th-century composers active in Salzburg.
Egon PetriPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Egon Petri
Egon WelleszPerson · Music memorabiliaEgon Joseph Wellesz, CBE, FBA (21 October 1885 – 9 November 1974) was an Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music.
Émile WaldteufelPerson · Music memorabiliaCharles Émile Waldteufel (valtøfɛl; 9 December 1837 – 12 February 1915) was a French composer, pianist, and conductor known for his numerous popular salon pieces.
Émile-Joseph-Maurice ChevéPerson · Music memorabiliaÉmile-Joseph-Maurice Chevé (May 31, 1804 – August 25, 1864) was a French music theorist and music teacher.
Engelbert HumperdinckPerson · Music memorabiliaEngelbert Humperdinck (lang; 1 September 1854 – 27 September 1921) was a German composer of opera. He is best known for his opera Hansel and Gretel (1893).
Enric Roig i MasrieraAuthor · BooksEnric Roig Masriera (Barcelona, 1892 - ibid, 17 December 1962) was a violinist, poet and musicologist.
Ernst RichterPerson · Music memorabiliaErnst Friedrich Eduard Richter (24 October 1808 – 9 April 1879), was a German musical theorist and composer, born in Großschönau, Saxony.
Felip PedrellPerson · Music memorabiliaFelip Pedrell Sabaté (Spanish: Felipe) (19 February 1841 – 19 August 1922) was a Catalan composer, guitarist and musicologist.
Felix MendelssohnArtist · PaintingsJakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), simply known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic…
Felix WeingartnerAuthor · BooksIllustration — Weingartner c.
Ferdinand PfohlPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Ferdinand Pfohl, Pastell by Anton Klamroth, 1892
Ferruccio BusoniPerson · Music memorabiliaFerruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.
Filaret KolessaPerson · Music memorabiliaFilaret Mykhailovych Kolessa (17 July 18713 March 1947) was a Ukrainian composer, ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist and literary critic.
Florent SchmittPerson · Music memorabiliaFlorent Schmitt (28 September 187017 August 1958) was a French composer. He was part of the group known as Les Apaches.
Francesco FlorimoPerson · Music memorabiliaFrancesco Florimo (12 October 1800 – 18 December 1888) was an Italian composer, music historian and critic.
Francesco Paolo TostiPerson · Music memorabiliaSir Francesco Paolo Tosti KCVO (9 April 1846, Ortona, Abruzzo – 2 December 1916, Rome) was an Italian composer and music teacher.
Francisco Salvador-DanielPerson · Music memorabiliaFrancisco Salvador-Daniel (Bourges 17 February 1831 - Paris 24 May 1871) was a French composer and ethnomusicologist of Spanish origin.
Franco AlfanoAuthor · BooksFranco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his operas Risurrezione (1904), Sakùntala (1921), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1936), and…
Franz BrendelPerson · Music memorabiliaKarl Franz Brendel (26 November 1811 – 25 November 1868) was a German music critic, journalist and musicologist born in Stolberg, the son of a successful mining engineer named Christian…
Frederick OuseleyPerson · Music memorabiliaSir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, 2nd Baronet (12 August 18256 April 1889), was an English composer, organist, musicologist and priest.
Friedrich ChrysanderAuthor · BooksLeopold von Kalckreuth (1901)
Friedrich HögnerPerson · Music memorabiliaFriedrich Johannes Paul Högner (11 July 1897 − 26 March 1981) was a German organist and church musician.
Fritz JödePerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Fritz Jöde, 1932
Gabriel FauréPerson · Music memorabiliaGabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher.
Gavino GabrielPerson · Music memorabiliaGavino Gabriel (Tempio Pausania, 1881 – Rome, 1980) was an Italian composer, ethnomusicologist scholar of Sardinian music, especially that of Gallura, and has written and published many…
George Alexander MacfarrenPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — George Alexander Macfarren
George EnescoPerson · Music memorabiliaGeorge Enescu (– 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, teacher and statesman.
Germaine TailleferrePerson · Music memorabiliaMarcelle Germaine Tailleferre (French: [ʒɛʁmɛn tɑjfɛʁ]; née Taillefesse; 19 April 1892 – 7 November 1983) was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as…
Giuseppe AdamiPerson · Film memorabiliaIllustration — Portrait of Giuseppe Adami
Giuseppe MartucciPerson · Music memorabiliaGiuseppe Martucci (6 January 1856, in Capua – 1 June 1909, in Naples) was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher.
Gordon JacobPerson · Music memorabiliaGordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE (5 July 18958 June 1984) was an English composer and teacher.
Hamish MacCunnPerson · Music memorabiliaHamish MacCunn, né James MacCunn (22 March 18682 August 1916) was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher.
Hans von KoesslerPerson · Music memorabiliaHans von Koessler (1 January 1853 – 23 May 1926) was a German composer, conductor and music teacher. In Hungary, where he worked for 26 years, he was known as János Koessler.
Heinrich Eduard JacobAuthor · BooksHeinrich Eduard Jacob (7 October 1889 – 25 October 1967) was a German and American journalist and author.
Heinrich ReimannPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Heinrich Reimann
Heinrich SchenkerPerson · Music memorabiliaHeinrich Schenker (19 June 1868 – 14 January 1935) was an Austrian music theorist whose writings have had a profound influence on subsequent musical analysis.
Heitor Villa-LobosPerson · Music memorabiliaHeitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in…
Hendrik AndriessenPerson · Music memorabiliaHendrik Franciscus Andriessen (17 September 1892 – 12 April 1981) was a Dutch composer and organist.
Henri BüsserPerson · Music memorabiliaPaul Henri Büsser (16 January 1872 – 30 December 1973) was a French classical composer, organist, conductor and teacher.
Henry CowellPerson · Music memorabiliaHenry Dixon Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, and music teacher.
Henry Edward KrehbielAuthor · BooksHenry Edward Krehbiel (10 March 1854 – 20 March 1923) was an American music critic and musicologist who was the chief music critic of The New York Tribune for more than forty years.
Hermann AbertPerson · Music memorabiliaHermann Abert (lang; 25 March 1871 – 13 August 1927) was a German historian of music.
Hermann KellerPerson · Music memorabiliaHermann Keller (20 November 1885 – 17 August 1967) was a German Protestant church musician and musicologist.
Hermann ScherchenPerson · Music memorabiliaHermann Scherchen (21 June 1891 – 12 June 1966) was a German conductor, who was principal conductor of the city orchestra of Winterthur from 1922 to 1950.
Hilarión EslavaPerson · Music memorabiliaMiguel Hilarión Eslava y Elizondo (21 October 1807 – 23 July 1878) was a Spanish composer and pedagogue.
Hubert ParryPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Hubert Parry in The Musical Quarterly, c.
Hugo LeichtentrittPerson · Music memorabiliaHugo Leichtentritt (1 January 1874, Pleschen, Pleszew, nearby Posen, Province of Posen13 November 1951, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a German-Jewish musicologist and composer who spent…
Hugo RiemannAuthor · BooksKarl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann (18 July 1849 – 10 July 1919) was a German musicologist and composer who was among the founders of modern musicology.
Ignacy Jan PaderewskiPerson · Music memorabiliaIgnacy Jan Paderewski (6 November 1860 [or 1859] – 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer, philanthropist, and statesman.
Ivan ZajcPerson · Music memorabiliaIvan von Zajc (also Ivan plemeniti Zajc, Giovanni de Zaytz; pron; August 3, 1832 – December 16, 1914) was a Croatian composer, conductor, director, and teacher who dominated Croatia's…
Jaap StotijnPerson · Music memorabiliaJacob Hendrik "Jaap" Stotijn (The Hague, 22 September 1891 – The Hague, 5 April 1970) was a Dutch oboist. He was also active as a pianist and conductor.
Jabbar GaryaghdiogluPerson · Music memorabiliaJabbar Garyagdioglu or Garyaghdyoglu (Cabbar Qaryağdıoğlu pronounced) (31 March 1861 – 20 April 1944) was an Azerbaijani folk singer (khananda).
Jacques IbertPerson · Music memorabiliaJacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of classical music.
Jan MaklakiewiczPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Jan Maklakiewicz
Jean AbsilPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Jean Absil
Jean-Baptiste ArbanPerson · Music memorabiliaJoseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban (28 February 1825 – 8 April 1889) was a cornetist, conductor, composer, pedagogue and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet à piston or valved cornet.
Jean-Georges KastnerPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Jean-Georges Kastner (1867)
Jeanne LeleuPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Jeanne Leleu
Johan SvendsenPerson · Music memorabiliaJohan Severin Svendsen (30 September 184014 June 1911) was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist.
John LomaxPerson · Music memorabiliaJohn Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 – January 26, 1948) was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist, and a folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk music.
José BruyrAuthor · BooksIllustration — A photo of José Bruyr and his wife Berthe Bunel, taken in 1922.
José SerranoPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Statue of Serrano in València
José Vianna da MottaPerson · Music memorabiliaJosé Vianna da Motta (modern spelling as Viana da Mota; 22 April 1868 – 1 June 1948) was a Portuguese pianist, teacher, and composer. He was one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt.
Josef HellmesbergerPerson · Music memorabiliaJoseph Heinrich Georg Hellmesberger Jr. (9 April 1855 – 26 April 1907), also known as Pepi Hellmesberger, was an Austrian composer, violinist and conductor.
Josef LhévinnePerson · Music memorabiliaJosef Lhévinne (13 December 18742 December 1944) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher.
Josef Matthias HauerPerson · Music memorabiliaJosef Matthias Hauer (March 19, 1883 – September 22, 1959) was an Austrian composer and music theorist.
Josef RheinbergerPerson · Music memorabiliaJosef Gabriel Rheinberger (17 March 1839 – 25 November 1901) was a composer and organist from Liechtenstein, residing in Bavaria for most of his life.
Joseph FischhofPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Joseph Fischhof, lithograph by Andreas Staub, ca.
Joseph MarxAuthor · BooksJoseph Rupert Rudolf Marx (11 May 1882 – 3 September 1964) was an Austrian composer, teacher and critic.
Joseph SchillingerPerson · Music memorabiliaJoseph Moiseyevich Schillinger (Russian: Ио́сиф Моисе́евич Ши́ллингер; 1 September [O.S. 20 August] 1895 (other sources: 31 August [O.S.
Józef KofflerPerson · Music memorabiliaHe was the first Polish composer living before the Second World War to apply the twelve-tone composition tec
Jules MassenetPerson · Music memorabiliaJules Émile Frédéric Massenet (12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.
Julián CarrilloPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Julián Carrillo in Paris, September 4th, 1899
Julien TiersotPerson · Music memorabiliaJulien Tiersot (5 July 1857 in Bourg-en-Bresse (Rhône-Alpes) – 10 August 1936 in Paris), was a French musicologist, composer and a pioneer in ethnomusicology.

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