Kreissle von Hellborn, Heinrich

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Kreissle von Hellborn, Heinrich

Kreissle von Hellborn, Heinrich, Austrian writer on music; b. Vienna, Jan. 19, 1822; d. there, April 6, 1869. He studied law; was a Dr.Juris, and secretary in the Ministry of Finance in Vienna. A passionate admirer of Schubert, he publ. Franz Schubert, Eine biographische Skizze (1861), followed in 1865 by the exhaustive biography Franz Schubert (condensed Eng. ed. by Wilberforce, 1866; full tr. by A.D. Coleridge, 1869).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire

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