Egon Wellesz
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Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist (1885-1974)
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Egon Wellesz was a male composer, musicologist, and teacher. He worked in the fields of music and classical music. His professional roles included serving as a teacher and a music professor.
He held nationalities in Great Britain, Austria, the United States, and Germany. Wellesz spoke German and English. He was born in 1885 and died in 1974. His body of work consists of two compositions.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1885
- Died
- 1974
- Works
- 88
Top works
- Ancient and oriental music
- Die Struktur des serbischen Oktoechos ...
- Epilegomena zu den "Eastern elements in Western chant."
- L'inno acatisto in onore della Madre di Dio
- Music in the treatises of Greek gnostics and alchemists
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,347
- Total plays
- 15,375
Tags
Egon Joseph Wellesz (October 21, 1885 – November 9, 1974) Austrian composer, teacher and musicologist, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and student of Byzantine music. Left Austria for England in the wake of the Anschluss — more specifically, as noted in a review of the recent recording of songs and orchestral works on the Capriccio label — probably quoting their program notes — was in the Netherlands at the time by good fortune. Wrote nine symphonies and an equal number of string quartets <a href="ht
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Naturalistic inquiry
· 1985 · cited 34,704x
- Criteria for assessing the trustworthiness of naturalistic inquiries
· 1981 · cited 2,720x
- But is it rigorous? Trustworthiness and authenticity in naturalistic evaluation
· 1986 · cited 2,264x
- IX. On the problem of the most efficient tests of statistical hypotheses
· 1933 · cited 1,994x
- TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access
· 2019 · cited 1,905x
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Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1885–1974
- Nationality
- GB, AT, US, DE
- Role / Field
- Teachers, Musicologists, Composers, Teacher, Profesores de musica, Muzikologija
- Language
- ger, eng, deu
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 34 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Egon
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- University of Vienna
- Employer
- University of Vienna
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- German
- Student of
- Guido Adler
- Field of work
- Byzantine music
- Genre
- classical music
- Image
- Egon Wellesz (1885–1974) 1927 © Georg Fayer (1892–1950).jpg
Show 8 more facts
- member of
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- name in native language
- Egon Wellesz
- birth name
- Egon Joseph Wellesz
- Commons category
- Egon Wellesz
- place of burial
- Vienna Central Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1885-10-21
- date of death
- 1974-11-09
- P8168
- Arco
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Egon Wellesz, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana