Karl Geiringer
Karl Geiringer ( born April 26, 1899 in Vienna, † January 10, 1989 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an American musicologist Austrian descent.
Family
Geiringer comes from the family of the Hungarian textile manufacturer Ludwig Geiringer († 1932) and his wife Martha nee Wertheimer. His siblings were later obtained his doctorate Ernst Geiringer, who later became a mathematician and lecturer Hilda Geiringer (1893-1973) and later the engineer Peter Geiringer.
Life
Karl Geiringer studied at the Vienna University of Music History at Guido Adler and his then assistant Wilhelm Fischer, as well as Curt Sachs and John Wolf in Berlin and received his doctorate in Vienna in 1923. By Hans Gál he was informed in composition.
Geiringer first worked at the Vienna Philharmonic Publishing and in 1930 librarian of the collections of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna. He published at this time already a leading musicologist and music editor significant works to life German composer and discovered previously unknown compositions of great masters, such as the eight Polonaises (1828 ) by Robert Schumann.
After the "Anschluss " of Austria in 1938 he had to leave as a Jew Austria and fled to London. Here he worked for the BBC and worked for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, as well as a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music. In 1940 he übersiedlelte in the United States and received in the same year an apprenticeship at Hamilton College in New York. In 1942 he was appointed professor at the Boston University ( Schoool of Fina and Applied Arts), where he was the next 21 years working. In 1962 he accepted a professorship at the University of California, where he retired in 1972.
His sister, Hilda Geiringer (1893-1973) was a mathematician and high school teacher.