Decsey, Ernst Pseudonym Franz Heinrich#
b. Hamburg (Germany), April 13, 1870, d. Vienna, March 12, 1941. Legal scholar, music critic and author in Graz and Vienna, pupil of A. Bruckner. Wrote numerous biographies of musicians/composers (A. Bruckner, H. Wolf, J. Strauss, etc.), plays (Der Musikant Gottes, 1926) and 2 opera librettos; promoted Austria as the country of music in his writings.