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Kurt Blaukopf
Austrian music sociologist
Kurt Blaukopf (15 February 1914 – 14 June 1999) was an Austrian music sociologist. Blaukopf established music sociology as a subject at the Vienna Musikhochschule.
He founded the Institute of Music Sociology and the MEDIACULT Institute.[1]
Life and career
Blaukopf was born in Czernowitz (then Austria-Hungary, now Ukraine), but the family soon left Bukovina for Vienna where he studied law and political science.
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After the Anschluss in 1938, he had to leave Austria and continued to work in Paris, and in 1940 he moved to Jerusalem. Blaukopf never completed his studies, and he worked as a freelance musicologist and music critic since 1947.
From 1962 until his retirement in 1984, he first lectured at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna where he became an honorary professor in 1974 and Austria's first and only full professor of music sociology in 1977.
In 1994 Blaukopf was awarded an honorary doctorate by the U