LEICHTENTRITT, HUGO

LEICHTENTRITT, HUGO
LEICHTENTRITT, HUGO (1874–1951), musicologist and composer. Born in Pleschen, Poland, from 1905 he taught at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin and was also music critic for the Vossische Zeitung. In 1933 he left Germany and became lecturer at Harvard University. His writings include Haendel (Ger., 1924); Music, History and Ideas (1938); Music of the Western Nations (1956); and a widely used handbook, Musical Form (1911, 1952; augmented English edition, 1951). His editions of early music appeared, among others, in the Denkmaeler deutscher Tonkunst. Leichtentritt composed a symphony, a comic opera, chamber music, an opera Esther (a dramatic legend), and a cantata The Song of Solomon.

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