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Karl Geiringer (April 26, 1899 – January 10, 1989)〔Will Crutchfield, January 12, 1989, (Obituary of Karl Geiringer ). Retrieved 2013-08-10.〕 was an Austrian American musicologist, educator, and biographer of composers. He was educated in Vienna but at the beginning of the Nazi years he emigrated to England and ultimately the United States, where he had a lengthy and distinguished career at several universities. He was a noted authority on Brahms, Haydn, and the Bach family, and a prolific author. ==Life== Geiringer was born in Vienna, the son of Louis and Martha (''nee'' Wertheimer) Geiringer.〔http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/tomita/bachbib/review/bb-review_Freeman-Geiringer.html Published online on 17 May 2003〕〔Freeman et al. (1989)〕 He studied music history at the University of Vienna under Guido Adler and Curt Sachs, and studied composition under Hans Gál. He also studied at the University of Berlin under Curt Sachs.〔 He received his Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Vienna in 1923.〔 The topic of his doctoral thesis was the musical instruments appearing in Renaissance painting.〔 Following his degree he worked as an editor for Adler's journal ''Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich''; he remained on the editorial board of this publication for the rest of his life.〔 In 1930 he won a top position in the musicological field, as the curator of the archives at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, a position previously held by his mentor Eusebius Mandyczewski and other distinguished scholars.〔 The job gave Geiringer access to much valuable primary source material on Western music, which he used extensively in his scholarship. An unusual responsibility Geiringer bore at the Gesellschaft archives was the curatorship of Joseph Haydn's skull, which had been stolen from his grave in 1809. In the first English edition of his Haydn biography (1946), Geiringer reminisced about bringing forth Haydn's head to show to visitors. In 1938, Austria was incorporated into Nazi Germany in the Anschluss. With the Nazi occupation, the Gesellschaft was closed.〔Anonymous (1989)〕 Geiringer, although he had been baptized a Roman Catholic, was the child of Jewish parents;〔 hence he and his family were in grave danger, and they fled the country.〔 He first went to London, where he taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music and served as a broadcaster for the BBC. He also worked extensively as an editor for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; according to his later colleagues he was "in all but name a co-editor".〔 In 1940, Geiringer moved to America,〔 becoming an American citizen in 1945.〔 (bio on back cover)〕 He taught first for a year as a visiting professor at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y.〔 The following year he took up a professorial appointment at Boston University, where he directed the graduate program and remained for 21 years. Among his students was H. C. Robbins Landon.〔 His final academic appointment began in 1962, when he moved to the University of California at Santa Barbara, in order to establish the graduate program in musicology.〔 Throughout this time, he continued to publish extensively. In 1973 he became an emeritus professor, but continued to be very active: his colleagues said of him, "His 'retirement' ... proved to be more of a technicality than a reality—his teaching and research continued unabatedly and were interrupted only by death itself."〔 He died in Santa Barbara at the age of 89 of complications from injuries sustained in a fall.〔 Geiringer was twice married. His first wife, and longtime coauthor, was Irene Geiringer (1899–1983).〔〔Cole (2003, 436)〕〔(The Opera Quarterly )〕 He was later married to Bernice Geiringer (née Abrams, 1918–2001), a concert pianist and student of Arnold Schoenberg.〔(Cole (2003, 436); website of Arnold Schoenberg Center )〕 He had two sons, Martin and George.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karl Geiringer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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