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Born March 10, 1841 • Brussels • Belgium
Died June 17, 1924 (aged 83) • Belgium
Subjects Of Study music • musical instrument • acoustics • classification
Curt Sachs
German musicologist
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
French art dealer and publisher
Lonnie G. Bunch III
Lonnie G. Bunch III
American museum director
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
American museum curator
Vincent d’Indy
French composer
Archytas of Tarentum
Greek mathematician
John Philip Sousa.
John Philip Sousa
American composer
Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer
Erich Moritz von Hornbostel
Austrian musicologist
Dolmetsch, pen-and-ink drawing by Edmond X. Kapp, 1920; in a private collection
Arnold Dolmetsch
British musician
S.H. Kress
American businessman
Theobald Boehm
German woodwind maker
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon
French artist
Frederic Ward Putnam.
Frederic Ward Putnam
American anthropologist
André Philidor
French musician and composer
Bastian
Adolf Bastian
German ethnologist
Praetorius, Michael
Michael Praetorius
German musician
Komitas
Komitas
Armenian composer
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake
British painter