Born in
Ivancice, he taught musicology at Vienna University from 1881
(professor 1898) and is regarded as one of the founders of modern
musicology. He founded and edited a leading musicological quarterly
from 1884 to 1894. Thanks to him Vienna was one of the great centers
of musicological research. Adler was honorary president of the
International Society of Musicology, which he helped to establish.
In 1894 he founded the journal Denkmaeler der Tonkunst in
Oesterreich and was its editor in chief until removed by the Nazis
in 1938. He remained in Vienna until his death. Among his
writings were books on Wagner and Mahler.
Bibliography:
ADLER, Guido, ed. Handbuch der
Musikgeschichte, unter mitwirkung von fachgenossen herausgegeben von
Guido Adler; mit vielen Notenbeispielen und Abbildungen zur
Geschichte der Notenschrift, der Musikinstrumente, der
Operndarstellung und mit wiedergaben von Autographen.
2., vollstaendig durchgesehene und stark ergaenzte Aufl Vols. 2.
Berlin-Wilmersdorf: H. Keller, 1930.
ADLER, Guido. Wollen und Wirken: aus dem
Leben eines Musikhistorikers. Pp. viii, 127. Wien:
Universal-Edition, 1935.
ADLER, Guido. Richard Wagner, Vorlesungen gehalten an der Universitaet zu Wien. 2.
durchgesehene Aufl. Pp. x, 382. Muenchen: Drei Masken Verlag, 1923.
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