Ernst Kurth
Swiss music theorist
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Ernst Kurth's Degrees
- PhD Musicology University of Zurich
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ernst Kurth was a Swiss music theorist of Austrian origin. Career Kurth studied musicology with Guido Adler in Vienna, and earned his Ph.D. with a thesis about Christoph Willibald Gluck's operatic style. In a relatively short publishing career of about 15 years, Kurth wrote four enormously influential works: Grundlagen des Linearen Kontrapunkts , Romantische Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners "Tristan" , Bruckner, and Musikpsychologie. Since the 1940s, Kurth was gradually eclipsed by other theorists . However, his concept of "developmental motif" has remained influential. A developmental motif is one which gradually changes or grows, becoming a structural carrier of formal developments. An example is the triadic motif heard at the beginning of the first movement of Beethovens' third symphony which only becomes a closed theme at the culminating closing of the movement. Unfortunately, only a small selection of excerpts from Kurth's writings was translated into English by Lee A. Rothfarb.
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