Reinhard, Kurt
Reinhard, Kurt
Reinhard, Kurt , German ethnomusicologist; b. Giessen, Aug. 27, 1914; d. Wetzlar, July 18, 1979. He studied musicology and composition in Cologne (1933–35), and musicology and ethnology at the univs. in Leipzig and Munich under Huber, Ficker, and Ubbelohdé-Doering (1935–36); received a doctorate with a diss. on Burmese music (1938). He worked at the Staatliche Musikinstrumentensammlung in Berlin, then was director of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv (1948–68) and head of the dept. of music pedagogy at the Peterson Cons. (1947–52). In 1948 he began teaching at the Free Univ. in Berlin, where he completed a Habilitation on organology (1950); subsequently became prof. and head of the ethnomusicology dept. there (1957). His most important research focused on the folk and art music of Turkey.
Writings
Die Musik exotischer VÖlker (Berlin, 1951); Chinesische Musik (Kassel, 1956); Türkische Musik (Berlin, 1962); Einführung in die Musikethnologie (WÖlfenbuttel, 1968).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire