Kurt Zachs -Wikipedia

Kurt Zachs （ Curt Sachs , June 29, 1881 -February 5, 1959) is an American musician from Germany. One of the founders of modern musical instruments, it is known for devising the instrument classification method called Zachs -Hermbostel, along with Erich von Holmbostel.

From Berlin. He studied piano, music theory, and composition from an early age, but at the University of Berlin, he majored in art history and obtained a Ph.D. in 1904 in a paper on the sculpture of Andrea Del Verocchio. Initially, he worked as an art historian, but immediately turned into music and was appointed director of the historical instrument collection of the National Music Academy. He began his career as an instrument scholar to restore the instrument.

In 1913, he published a musical instrument dictionary. This is the most comprehensive study of musical instruments for 200 years. The following year, with Erich von Holumbostel, he published a new system in the “ethnic journal” (Zeitschrift Für Ethnology). This is the Zachs -hornbostel classification. Although the Zachs -hornbostel classifications have been revised frequently, they are still the most widely used classification of music and musical instruments.

In 1933, when the Nazi administration was established, Zax was expelled from the public office because he was a Jew. He escaped from Paris to the United States. In the United States, from 1937 to 1953, he was on the podium of New York University, and was also a member of the New York Public Library.

In 1940, he published the History of Musical Instruments. This is one of the most important books as a comprehensive study of the world’s musical instruments. He also has books on rhythm, dance, and ancient music. These are substituted in several ways, but they are still indispensable for research.

In 1956, he was given an honorary Ph.D. from Berlin Jiyu University. His name was named in the concert hall of the Berlin Museum Museum.

He died in New York in 1959. In 1983, the American Musical Instrument Association founded the Kurt Zachs Award.

Japanese translated work [ edit ]

• “Comparative Music Science” (all music score publisher, 1953)
• “History of Musical Instruments” (all music score publishers, 1965)
• “Origin of Music -Production of Music in the East and West Ancient World” (Music Nobuyosha, 1969)
• “Source of Music -Ethnic Music Study” (Music Nobuyosha, 1970)
• “World Dance History” (Music Yunosha, 1972)
• “Rhythm and Tempo” (Music Nobuyosha, 1979)
• “Musical Instruments and Production” (Aidel Institute, 2000)

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• Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann: Short -caught sound artist Lexicon . Gustav Bosse, Regensburg 1936.
• Stanley Sadie (Hrsg.): The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians . Macmillan, London 1980.
• Gabriele Busch-Salmen: Musician in portrait . C. H. Beck, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-406-08454-0.
• Darryl Lyman: Great Jews in Music . Jonathan David Publishers, New York 1986, ISBN 0-8246-0315-X.