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Karl Geiringer April 26, — January 10, [ 1 ] was an Austrian-American musicologist , educator, and biographer of composers. He was educated in Vienna but at the beginning of the Nazi years he emigrated to England and ultimately the United States, where he had a lengthy and distinguished career at several universities. He was a noted authority on Brahms , Haydn , and the Bach family , and a prolific author.

He also studied at the University of Berlin under Curt Sachs. In he won a top position in the musicological field, as the curator of the archives at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, a position previously held by his mentor Eusebius Mandyczewski and other distinguished scholars. An unusual responsibility Geiringer bore at the Gesellschaft archives was the curatorship of Joseph Haydn 's skull, which had been stolen from his grave in In the first English edition of his Haydn biography , Geiringer reminisced about bringing forth the skull to show to visitors; see Haydn's head.

In , Austria was incorporated into Nazi Germany in the Anschluss. With the Nazi occupation, the Gesellschaft was closed. He also worked extensively as an editor for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ; according to his later colleagues he was "in all but name a co-editor". In , Geiringer moved to America, [ 3 ] becoming an American citizen in Among his students was H.

Robbins Landon. In he became an emeritus professor , but continued to be very active: his colleagues said of him, "His 'retirement' Geiringer was twice married.