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Alfred Einstein (December 30, 1880 – February 13, 1952) was a German American musicologist and music editor. Events 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. 1816 - The Treaty of St Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. German Americans ( German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States of Ethnic German ancestry Musicology ( Greek: μουσική = "music" and λόγος = "word" or "reason" is the scholarly study of Music He was noted as one of the widest-ranging music historians in the first half of the 20th century. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on

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Biography

Einstein was born in Munich. Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. 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. The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München also known as LMU, is a University in Munich and with more Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 - 1600 Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750. The viol (also called viola da gamba) is any one of a family of bowed, Fretted stringed Musical instruments developed in the 1400s 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 including Smith College, Columbia University, Princeton University, the University of Michigan, and the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately Machtergreifung ( is a German word meaning "seizure of power" Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton Massachusetts. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research The Hartt School is a school of performing arts located in West Hartford Connecticut, primarily providing postsecondary programs in music dance and theatre

Einstein not only researched and wrote detailed works on specific topics, but wrote popular histories of music, including the Short History of Music (1917), and Greatness in Music (1941). In addition, he published a revision of the Köchel catalog of Mozart's music (1937), and a comprehensive, three-volume set The Italian Madrigal (1949) on the secular Italian form, the first detailed study of the subject. Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Ritter von Köchel (ˈkœçəl (January 14 1800 – June 3 1877 was a Musicologist, writer composer Botanist and publisher This is a complete list of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, listed chronologically. A madrigal is a type of Secular vocal music composition written during the Renaissance and early Baroque eras His 1945 volume Mozart: His Character, His Work was an influential study of Mozart and is perhaps his best known book.

Relationship to Albert

While one respected source lists Alfred as a cousin of the scientist Albert Einstein,[1] another claims that no relationship has been verified. Albert Einstein ( German: ˈalbɐt ˈaɪ̯nʃtaɪ̯n; English: ˈælbɝt ˈaɪnstaɪn (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955 was a German -born theoretical [2] Some Web sites claim they were both descended from a Moyses Einstein seven generations back, hence were sixth cousins. [3]

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Einstein in popular culture

In the film Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Alfred Einstein is mentioned, presumably as a malapropism of Albert Einstein. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure ( 1989) is an American comedy / Science fiction Movie in which two Slackers A malapropism (also called a Dogberryism) is the substitution of an incorrect word for a word with a similar sound usually to comic effect Whether the filmmakers were aware that Alfred Einstein had in fact been a living scholar is an open question. The same happens in the movie Kingpin. Kingpin is a 1996 Farrelly brothers film starring Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, and Bill Murray

References

  1. ^ Article "Alfred Einstein", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. , 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
  2. ^ The Concise Edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th ed. Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky. New York, Schirmer Books, 1993. ISBN 0-02-872416-X
  3. ^ Descendants of Baruch Moyses Einstein at Family Tree Maker Online.
  4. ^ Detail taken from a copy of the Cassell Publication (London) Mozart: His Character. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. His work which was translated by Arthur Mendel and Nathan Broder a third edition published in 1957
Arthur Mendel ( June 6, 1905 &ndash October 14, 1979) was an American Musicologist.
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