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LEICHTENTRITT (Leichtentritt) Hugo (1 I 1874, Pleshev, near Poznan - 13 XI 1951, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) - German musicologist. He studied at the Higher Muses. school in Berlin, he studied the history of music in 1899-1901 at the University of Berlin at hand. O. Fleischer and M. Friedlander. In 1902-24 he taught the history of music and muses at the Klindworth Conservatory - Sharvenki. aesthetics, acted as a critic. In 1933 he emigrated to the United States, where in 1934-40 he was a professor at Harvard and New York Universities. From many musicological works of L. distinguished "History motet" ("Geschichte der Motette", Lpz., 1908), rich in valuable information and generalizations on the music of the Renaissance, from theoretical and analytical - widely conceived and developed from the standpoint of muses. aesthetics and psychology "The doctrine of musical form" ("Musikalische Formenlehre", Lpz., 1911, 1952),as well as the 2-volume work “Analysis of Chopin's Piano Works”. L. completed the 4th volume of the “History of Music” by A. Ambros (1909). The author is a comedian. the opera Sicilian (Freiburg, 1920), symphonies, instrur. concerts, strings. quartets, songs, etc.