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© 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107217 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007214 lived close by, and they had become acquainted in Europe in around 1930. PVB: TheywerebothAmericans, but they studied inVienna? BN: Yes. PVB: Were theirPh.D.s fromVienna? BN: Yes. I don’t think theywere actually advisees technically ofAdler’s, but they studied with him. You know it’s interesting, if you read Adler’s autobiography,hereallydoesn’ttalkabouthisstudentsverymuch,except inthecaseofacouplewhendiscussingthepossibilityofbeingsucceeded, or cooperating on somekind ofmajor event.Hedidn’t say, as you or I might, “Well, letme tell you aboutmy students,” and then list them. I thinkittellsyousomethingaboutthekindofrelationshipsthatprofessors had inCentralEurope, as compared tonow. PVB: Itmaywellbethecasetoday inCentralEurope. Idon’tknowthatthereis that much Doktorvater–Doktorkind relationship. That’s also relevant whenwe even think about the questionof influences. Iwonder, Bruno, howyouthinkabout theareasof influencehere,onthediscussionpages weprepared: 1) thegenealogy,which iswherewebegan; 2) then there’s thiskindofintellectualdebt,wherethere’sabodyofliterature–whatkind of influences?; 3) and then there’s institutional influence.That’s some- thing that influences the twoofus, inpartbecauseofourowninterest in intellectualhistory.It’sveryinterestingthatsomeonelikeGlenHaydonin somewaysplaysaninterestingroleintheintellectualhistoryofAmerican musical studies in a fairly Central Europeanway. I don’t knowwhether youagreewith that. BN: Oh, sure.Hisbook, Introduction toMusicology, is verymuchbasedon Adler’sMethodederMusikgeschichte.12Curiously, itwas intendedtobe a textbook for musicology in the United States, but then, when Glen Haydonwasovertakenbyalltheseimmigrants,theydidn’tusehisbook. I don’t think the book was very much used by people like Manfred Bukofzer13 (1910–1955), Edward Lowinsky14 (1908–1985), or Karl Library.Amonghismanyaccomplishmentswas that of founding theMusic LibraryAsso- ciation. 12 GlenHaydon:IntroductiontoMusicology.ASurveyoftheFields,SystematicandHistorical, ofMusicalKnowledgeandResearch.ChapelHill:UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress1941; GuidoAdler:MethodederMusikgeschichte.Leipzig:BreitkopfundHärtel 1919. 13 ManfredBukofzerwasaGermanAmericanmusicologistwhostudiedinHeidelberg, fledthe Nazisin1933,andestablishedmusicologyattheUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,wherehe taught in the1940sand1950s.Hispublications focused largelyonmedievalmusic. 14 EdwardLowinskywasaGermanAmericanmusicologistof Jewishheritage,whostudied in Stuttgart andHeidelberg and fledGermany in1933.Hewas the founding figure formusi- Adler inAmerica–AConversation 209 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0