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WELLES (Wellesz) Egon (b. 21 X 1885, Vienna) - Austrian musicologist and composer. Doctor of Philosophy (1908). He studied in Vienna with G. Adler (musicology) and C. Frühling (fp., Harmony) at the university, as well as A. Schoenberg (counterpoint, composition). In 1911-15 he taught the history of music at the New Conservatory, from 1913 - at the University of Vienna (since 1929 professor). After the capture of Austria by Nazi Germany, from 1938 he lived in England. He was a teacher. and scientific. work in the king. musesCollege in London, at Cambridge, Oxford (led by studies of Byzantine music), University of Edinburgh, as well as at Princeton University (USA). V. is one of the largest researchers of the Byzantine. music founder of the Institute of Byzant. music at the nat. b-ke (1932), participated in the work of Byzant. will be investigated. Institute at Dumbarton Oaks (USA). One of the founders of the monument. the publication “Monuments of Byzantine Music” (“Monumenta musicae Byzantinae”), many volumes of which he independently prepared.