Manfred Bukofzer

Manfred Bukofzer
Born	March 27, 1910(1910-03-27) Oldenburg, Germany
Died	December 17, 1955(1955-12-17) (aged 45)
Nationality	Germany, United States
Ethnicity	Jewish
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Heidelberg University
Occupation	Musicologist
Employer	University of California, Berkeley
Spouse	Ilse Kämmerer[1]

Manfred Bukofzer (March 27, 1910 – December 7, 1955) was a German-American musicologist and humanist. He studied at Heidelberg University and the Stern conservatory in Berlin, but left Germany in 1933, going to Basle, where he received his doctorate. In 1939 he moved to the United States where he remained, becoming a U.S. citizen. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1941 until his premature death.

Bukofzer is best known as a historian of early music, particularly of the Baroque era. His book Music in the Baroque Era is still one of the standard reference works on the topic, though some modern historians assert that it has a Germanic bias, for instance in minimizing the importance of opera (Italian by origin) during the development of musical style in the 17th century.

In addition to Baroque music, Bukofzer was a specialist in English music and music theory of the 14th through 16th centuries. His other scholarly interests included jazz and ethnomusicology.

Further reading

• Manfred Bukofzer, Music in the Baroque Era. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1947. ISBN 0-393-09745-5

References

• Sydney Robinson Charles. "Manfred F. Bukofzer", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan, 1980), iii, 429-430.

Footnotes

1. ^ http://www.ams-net.org/newsletter/AMSNewsletter-2008-8.pdf

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Name	Bukofzer, Manfred
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Date of birth	March 27, 1910
Place of birth	Oldenburg, Germany
Date of death	December 17, 1955
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