Alfred Einstein

Alfred Einstein (December 30th 1880 - February 13rd 1952) was a German-American musicologist and an editor of music. It was famous to be one of the largest historians of the music in first half of the XXe century.

Einstein was born with Munich. Although he studied the right initially, he realized quickly that its principal love was the music, and he acquired a doctorate with the Université of Munich, focusing himself on the instrumental music of the Renaissance and the beginning of the era baroque, in particular the music for the Viola da gamba. In 1918 he became the first editor of the Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft ; shortly after it became critical musical for the Münchner Post ; and in 1927 it became critical musical for the Berliner Tageblatt . In 1933, after the accession with the capacity of Hitler, it left the Nazi Germany, moving initially with London, then in Italy, and finally in the United States in 1939, where it obtained a succession of uses of teaching in universities including the Smith College, the Université of Columbia, the Université of Princeton, the Université of Michigan, and the Hartt School off Music with Hartford, Connecticut.

Einstein not only made research and wrote the works detailed on specific subjects, but he wrote also popular stories of the music, including the Short History off Music ( Courte history of the music , 1917), and the Greatness in Music ( Size in music , 1941). Moreover, it published a revision of the catalogs music of Mozart of Köchel (1937), and a complete whole in 3 volumes The Italian madrigal ( Italian Madrigal , 1949) on the secular Italian form, the first detailed study of the subject. Its volume of 1945 Mozart: His Character, His Work ( Mozart: Its character, his work ) was an influential study of Mozart and is perhaps his most known work.

Possible relationship with Albert

Although a sizeable source lists Alfred like a cousin of the scientist Albert Einstein, another clâme that no relationship was checked. Some Internet sites clâment that they descended all the 2 from Moyses Einstein, 7 generations behind, consequently which they were cousins with the 6th degree.

Einstein in the popular culture

In the film Bill and Ted' S Excel Adventure , Alfred Einstein is mentioned, probably badly by the way for Albert Einstein. That the realizers had realized there is an open-ended question. The same thing occurred for the film Kingpin .

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