Sven Hansell

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Sven Hansell
Born
Sven Hostrup Hansell

(1934-10-23)23 October 1934
University of Illinois (PhD)
OccupationMusicologist

Sven Hostrup Hansell (23 October 1934 – 6 March 2014) was an American musicologist and Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Iowa. He was a specialist in the music and performance practices of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as a harpsichordist and composer.[1][2]

Life and career

Hansell was born in

Johann Adolf Hasse
.

Hansell taught music history and harpsichord at

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, including the article on Hasse.[1][2][3]

At the time of his death Hansell was married to the German musicologist Marie-Agnes Dittrich [de]. He was formerly married to the musicologist and organist Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b University of Illinois Musicology Division. PhDs Completed in Musicology
  2. ^ a b Iowa City Press-Citizen (2 November 1993). "Early music concert will offer familiar, unfamiliar"
  3. ^ Dittrich, Marie-Agnes and Hansell, Kathleen Kuzmick (February 2015). "Sven Hostrup Hansell (1934–2014)". American Musicological Society Newsletter, Vol. 45, No. 1, p. 30.
  4. ^ New York Times (27 March 2014). Obituary: Sven Hostrup Hansell.