!!!Hornbostel, Erich b. Vienna, Feb. 25, 1877, d. Cambridge (United Kingdom), Nov. 28, 1935, musicologist and ethnologist; grandson of Theodor von Hornbostel. In 1900 he moved to Berlin and turned to the study of C. Stumpf's psychology of sound; 1905/1906 assistant of Stumpf, 1906-1933 head of the Berlin phonogram archives, afterwards professor in New York (1933), London and Cambridge (1934). Regarded as the founder of the "Berlin School" of musicology. !Works History of the phonogram archives of the Federal University of Music in Berlin, 1926; editor of the anthology of comparative musicology, 1922ff (together with C. Stumpf), various essays on the psychology of sound. !Literature S. Klotz (ed.), "Vom toenenden Wirbel menschlichen Tuns". E. M. v. H. als Gestaltpsychologe, Archivar und Musikwissenschaftler, 1998; B. Stangl, Ethnologie im Ohr. Die Wirkungsgeschichte des Phonographen, 2000; OeBL; NDB. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Hornbostel,_Erich|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]