A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Eitner, Robert

by Franz Gehring

EITNER, Robert, born at Breslau, Oct. 22, 1832, now living in Berlin; founder in 1868 of the 'Gesellschaft für Musikforschung,' and contributor to the valuable historical periodical 'Monatshefte für Musikgeschichte.' He edited a 'Verzeichniss neuer Ausgaben alter Musikwerke … bis zum Jahre 1800' (Berlin 1871), which though singularly defective as regards the English ^[1]School, is a useful catalogue. More recently he edited, in conjunction with Haberl, Langerberg, and C. F. Pohl, a valuable 'Bibliographic der Musik-Sammel-werke des 16 und 17 Jahrhunderts ' (Berlin 1877). His papers on Peter Sweelinck (Berlin 1870) and Arnold Schlick are of importance. [App. p.626 "he has edited Sweelinck's organ works and other things for the Maatschappij tot bevordering der Toonkunst. [See Vereeniging, vol. iv. p. 255 a.]"]

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1. He omits all mention of the collections of Barnard (1641). Boyce (1776), and Arnold (1790), as well as Morley's Triumphs of Oriana 1601).