!!!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.



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