Kurt Reinhard

Kurt Reinhard (August 27, 1914 – July 18, 1979) was a German musicologist and ethnomusicologist. Specialist in Turkish music.

Born in Gießen, Germany, he studied musicology and composition at the University of Cologne from 1933-1935, and ethnology at the Universities of Leipzig and Munich from 1935-1936. He took his doctorate at Munich doing his dissertation on Burmese music.

His chief area of interest in the field of ethnomusicology was the folk music of Turkey.

Partial bibliography:

*"Types of Turkmenian Songs in Turkey", Journal of the International Folk Music Council 9, 1956
*On the problem of pre-pentatonic scales: particularly the third-second nucleus, Journal of the International Folk Music Council 10, 1958
*"Türkische Musik", Berlin, 1962
*"Türkische Musik", in "Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart", 1966
*"Musique de Turquie" (in French, with Ursula Reinhard), Buchet/Chastel (Paris), 1996