Alfred Einstein (December 30, 1880 – February 13, 1952) was a German-American musicologist and music editor. He was noted as one of the widest-ranging music historians in the first half of the 20th century.
Einstein was born in Munich. Though he originally studied law, he quickly realized his principal love was music, and he acquired a doctorate at Munich University, focusing on instrumental music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, i...
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Alfred Einstein (December 30, 1880 – February 13, 1952) was a German-American musicologist and music editor. He was noted as one of the widest-ranging music historians in the first half of the 20th century.
Einstein was born in Munich. Though he originally studied law, he quickly realized his principal love was music, and he acquired a doctorate at Munich University, focusing on instrumental music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, in particular music for the viola da gamba. In 1918 he became the first editor of the Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft; slightly later he became music critic for the Münchner Post; and in 1927 became music critic for the Berliner Tageblatt. In this time he has been also a friend of the composer Heinrich Kaspar Schmid in Munich and Augsburg. In 1933, after Hitler's rise to power, he left Nazi Germany, moving first to London, then to Italy, and finally to the United States in 1939, where he held a succession of teaching jobs at universities...
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