Sol Babitz
American musicologist and violinist (1911-1982) · United States · Musicians · Died at 70
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Something wrong?Sol Babitz was an American violinist, musicologist, teacher, editor, and writer. A pioneer of historically informed performance, Babitz specialized in researching 17th- and 18th-century Western music practices and was the co-founder of the Early Music Laboratory in Los Angeles.
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Sol Babitz was an American violinist, musicologist, teacher, editor, and writer. A pioneer of historically informed performance, Babitz specialized in researching 17th- and 18th-century Western music practices and was the co-founder of the Early Music Laboratory in Los Angeles. A controversial figure in mid-20th-century music circles, his radical ideas challenging established approaches to Baroque and Classical period music literature; his arrogant and flamboyant personality received mixed and sometimes heated reactions from his contemporaries. Despite his place as a controversial personality, eventually the majority of Babitz's ideas and research into pre-1850 performance practices were accepted as accurate. He was the author of several books and academic papers on historically informed performance, and a longtime editor of the American Federation of Musicians's journal International Musician (1941-1962).
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