Harich-Schneider, This

This Harich-Schneider ( German Eta Harich-Schneider , full name of Margaret Elfried Bert , German Margarethe Elfriede Berta ; November 16, 1897 , Oranienburg - January 10, 1986 , Garching ) is a German harpsichordist . The wife of the writer Walter Harih .

She studied at the Berlin High School of Music as a pianist, then studied with Wanda Landovsky . She debuted as a concert performer in 1924 with the premiere performance of the piano suite by Paul Hindemith . She taught harpsichord at the Berlin Conservatory until 1941, when she went on a concert tour of Japan. The tour was a great success, and Harih was offered an eight-year contract. She not only performed with concerts, but also taught at the Japanese imperial court, in the early 1940s she was friends with Richard Sorge . In the postwar years, she taught at the American Military College in Tokyo .

In 1949, Harih-Schneider moved to New York , studied Japanese studies at Columbia University, and sociology at the New School of Social Research . In the second half of her life, Harih-Schneider was primarily a major expert in Japanese music, the author of the monographs “Rhythmic models of Gagaku and Bugaku ” ( Eng. The Rhythmical Patterns in Gagaku and Bugaku ; 1954) and “The History of Japanese Music” ( Eng. A History of Japanese Music ; 1973, Oxford University Press). In 1955–1961, she taught the harpsichord at the Vienna Academy of Music . In 1978 she released her autobiography "Characters and Disasters" ( German: Charaktere und Katastrophen ).