Curt Sachs
Musicologist, Author
1881 – 1959
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Who was Curt Sachs?
Curt Sachs was a German-born but American-domiciled musicologist. He was one of the founders of modern organology, and is probably best remembered today for co-authoring the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme of musical instrument classification with his fellow scholar Erich von Hornbostel.
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- Born
- Jun 29, 1881
Berlin - Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Lived in
- Berlin
- Died
- Feb 5, 1959
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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