Munich, 1880 — El Cerrito, Califórnia, USA, 1952

 

Musicologist, music critic

 

A distant relation of Albert Einstein, he studied at the University of  Munich, won fame as an erudite musicologist and worked as critic for the Münchner Post until 1927, and later for the Berliner Tageblatt. With the rise of Nazism in 1933, he left Germany and six years later settled in the United States, where he taught at Smith College and other educational institutions. A profound scholar of music with a broad range of interests, he wrote biographies of the most important composers, of which that of Mozart is the most complete. He revised the catalogue of Mozart’s works organized by Köchel.

 

His relationship with Zweig began in London, before he moved to the USA, when he joined his circle of Musikfreunde, musical friends, together with the pastor, organist and philosopher Albert Schweitzer, who abandoned a promising musical career to study medicine and go to work at an improvised hospital in Gabon.

 

Address listed: 9 Harlow Avenue, Northampton, Mass.