death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
berkeley , california 17 december 1955 oldenburg , german empire 27 march 1910 manfred bukofzer
 manfred bukofzer
manfred bukofzer

manfred bukofzer -lrb- march 27 , 1910 -- december 7 , 1955 -rrb- was a german-american musicologist and humanist .
he studied at heidelberg university and the stern conservatory in berlin , but left germany in 1933 , going to basle , where he received his doctorate .
in 1939 he moved to the united states where he remained , becoming a u.s. citizen .
he taught at the university of california , berkeley from 1941 until his premature death .
bukofzer is best known as a historian of early music , particularly of the baroque era .
his book `` music in the baroque era '' is still one of the standard reference works on the topic , though some modern historians assert that it has a germanic bias , for instance in minimizing the importance of opera -lrb- italian by origin -rrb- during the development of musical style in the 17th century .
in addition to baroque music , he was a specialist in english music and music theory of the 14th through 16th centuries .
his other scholarly interests included jazz and ethnomusicology .
among his influential students were leonard ratner .
