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Kurth, ErnstKurth, Ernst, b. Vienna, June 1, 1886, d. Berne, Switzerland, Aug. 2, 1946, musicologist and music theorist. Studied with G. Adler in Vienna, habilitated in Bern in 1912, taught at the University of Berne from 1920, Professor from 1927. Works: Die Voraussetzungen der theoretischen Harmonik, 1912/13; Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunktes, 1917; Romantische Harmonik und die Krise in Wagners Tristan, 1920; A. Bruckner, 2 vols., 1925; Musikpsychologie, 1931. Literature: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon; Neue Deutsche Biographie
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