Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1B1-354597.html" title="Facts and informations about Guido Adler">Guido Adler</a>

Give this article a thumbs-up on StumbleUpon

Guido Adler

From: Encyclopedia Britannica | Date: 2007 | Copyright information

(born Nov. 1, 1855, Eibenschütz, Moravia, Austrian Empire—died Feb. 15, 1941, Vienna, Austria) Austrian musicologist. After studying music theory and composition at the Vienna Conservatory, he studied music history at the University of Vienna under Eduard Hanslick (1825–1904), whom he succeeded as professor. He worked with Philipp Spitta (1841–94) and Friedrich Chrysander in founding musicology as an academic discipline. Among his distinguished students were Karl Geiringer (1899–1989), Knud Jeppesen (1892–1974), Anton Webern, and Egon Wellesz (1885–1974).For more information on Adler, Guido, visit Britannica.com.

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

MLA
Chicago
APA

"Guido Adler." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 8 Jan. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

"Guido Adler." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (January 8, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1B1-354597.html

"Guido Adler." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2007. Retrieved January 08, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1B1-354597.html

Learn more about citation styles

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	Seeking Growth, Coral Gables, Fla., Seafood Importer Casts Net Afar.(Originated from The Miami Herald) Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 8/5/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...were extremely proud of Suram's sales that first year, said Guido Adler, founder and president. We've come a long way since then...International University who is vice president of finance -- and Guido Adler's wife. Adler didn't come from a family of business owners... Read more
	Elisabeth Le Guin. Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology.(Book review) Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...intellectual practice and as a department of the modern research university, musicology is a young discipline. Not until 1885 did Guido Adler attempt to define its areas and methods of study; not until the 1930s did American universities begin to produce doctoral... Read more
	(book reviews) Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...been a cornerstone of seventeenth-century keyboard music and was published in the Denkmaler der Tonkunst in Osterreich, ed. Guido Adler, 1897-1903 (reprinted 1959). That edition is still quite serviceable, although it presents the movements of suites in an inauthentic... Read more
	Sharing Wisdom, Building Values: Letters from Family Business Owners to Their Successors Magazine article from: Family Business Review; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; Sharing Wisdom, Building Values: Letters from Family Business Owners to Their Successors by Denise H. Kenyon-Rouvinez, Gordon Adler, Guido Corbetta, and Gianfilippo Cuneo. Marietta, GA: Family Enterprise Publishers, 2002. 151 pp., $ 79.00 hardcover. As a third... Read more
	Weighing Walton Magazine article from: Musical Times; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...of these vignettes, from the final sentences of Michael Kennedy's Portrait of Walton (1989), is haunting. The scholar being Guido Adler, father of musicology, pupil of Bruckner, friend of Mahler and successor to Hanslick, it is almost as though Schenker himself... Read more
	Das Bach-Bild Philipp Spittas: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Bach-Rezeption im 19. Jahrhundert.(Review) Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...1885-94), and Friedrich II von Preussen: Musikalische Werke (1889). He was also cofounder (with Friedrich Chrysander and Guido Adler) of the Vierteljahrsschrift fur Musikwissenschaft and a major force behind the Leipzig Bach-Verein, established in 1875 for... Read more
	Mahler's musical secret. Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 5/12/2004; 700+ words ; ...a circle of modern thinkers (Klimt, Schoenberg, Freud), replacing all his fusty old friends, with one stubborn exception. Guido Adler, who grew up in the same small town as Mahler, clung to him like a college scarf. Adler founded an institute of musicology... Read more
	Money: Collecting - Classic chance for those who know the score Music manuscripts Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 5/2/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...a tragic tale behind it. It is a song called "Ich bin der Welt" and was presented to the composer's friend and fellow Jew, Guido Adler, in 1905. After Adler died, his daughter Melanie tried to preserve his library but was murdered by the Nazis. "This is probably... Read more
	GUSTAV MAHLER: Volume 4: A New Life Cut Short (1907-1911) Magazine article from: Fanfare; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Mahler the man, with copious excerpts from Alma's famous memoirs, personal recollections by friends and colleagues such as Guido Adler, Bruno Walter, Arnold Schoenberg, Theodore Spiering (concertmaster of the NYPO), and Swiss-French critic William Ritter; not... Read more
	Antiques/collecting: Original Stravinsky manuscript set to fetch record auction price.(Features) Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 5/15/2004; 700+ words ; ...itself represents a poignant memorial to the friendship between the composer and the great Austrian musicologist, Professor Guido Adler to whom Mahler had dedicated it. After the professor's death the manuscript disappeared. Mahler had died in 1911. Adler died... Read more

For more facts and information, see all related premium articles

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

	Adler, Guido Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Adler, Guido ( b Eibenschütz, Moravia, 1855; d Vienna, 1941). Austrian critic and musicologist. Prof. of mus. history, Prague Univ., 1885... Read more
	(Karl Franz) Friedrich Chrysander Book article from: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ...published studies of folk song (1853). One of the founders of the discipline of musicology (with Philipp Spitta and Guido Adler ), he wrote on a wide range of subjects, but his great project was the first edition of the complete works of George... Read more
	Webern, Anton Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...at Klagenfurt with Edwin Komauer, composing first works in 1899. Entered Vienna Univ. 1902, studying musicology with Guido Adler . Studied comp. with Pfitzner but became pupil of Schoenberg 1904–8. Ed. works of 15th-cent. Dutch composer Heinrich... Read more
	Anton Webern Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...he devoted himself more intensely to studies in harmony and counterpoint, as well as to courses in musicology under Guido Adler. A typical piece of this period is a ballade with orchestral accompaniment, Jung Siegfried, which shows the influence... Read more

See all related entries

Find thousands of answers for hundreds of subjects at Smart QandA.

This new site verifies all answers with trusted sources at Encyclopedia.com.

For students and teachers!

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including: