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Hugo Leichtentritt (1 January 1874 – 13 November 1951) was a German-Jewish musicologist and composer who spent much of his life in the USA.
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As a lecturer at Harvard, Leichtentritt tried to establish musicology as a legitimate field of study, but general disinterest and his strong emotions prevented a successful implementation into the Harvard curriculum. – Wikipedia
At Harvard, when Leichtentritt tried
To get musicology offered,
His proposal was curtly denied
When fervent objections were proffered.
It’s a challenge to get a new course
Accepted by old academics
Who’ll dissent with the negative force
Of stuffy old-fashioned polemics.
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