Erich Moritz von Hornbostel

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Born	February 25, 1877 • Vienna • Austria
Died	November 28, 1935 (aged 58) • Cambridge • England
Subjects Of Study	music • musical instrument • primitive art

Egon Wellesz

Austrian composer and musicologist

Curt Sachs

German musicologist

Abraham Zevi Idelsohn

Russian composer

Dolmetsch, pen-and-ink drawing by Edmond X. Kapp, 1920; in a private collection

Arnold Dolmetsch

British musician

Alfred Einstein

German-American musicologist and critic

Sir John Stainer

British composer

Michael Praetorius

German musician

Charles Bordes

French composer

Thurston Dart

British musician

Guido Adler

Austrian musicologist

Heinrich Schenker

Austrian music theorist

Eduard Hanslick

Austrian music critic

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger

Austrian composer

Ignaz Xaver, Ritter von Seyfried

Austrian musician and composer

Hector Berlioz

French composer

Harry Smith

American filmmaker, painter, musicologist, ethnographer, collector, and mystic

Carl Maria von Weber

German composer and musician

Béla Bartók

Hungarian composer

Jean-Philippe Rameau

French composer

Charles Burney

British musician and historian

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