Paul Stefan, born Paul Stefan Grünfeld (25 November 1879 – 12 November 1943) was an Austrian music historian and critic.
Born into an assimilated Jewish family,Klara Moricz (ed.), Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music, University of California Press (2008), p. 6 Stefan came to live in Vienna in 1898.Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig, Gustav Mahler: new insights into his life, times and work, p. 31 He attended courses in law, philosophy, and art history at the University of Vienna before studying music theory with Hermann Graedener and possibly composition under Arnold Schoenberg.Henry-Louis de La Grange, Gustav Mahler: A new life cut short (1907–1911), Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 781 From 1922 to 1937, he edited the Austrian music journal Musikblätter des Anbruch (entitled simply Anbruch from 1929 onward).Musikblätter des Anbruch (ANB)
Works Gustav Mahler; eine studie über persönlichkeit und werk, Münich: R. Piper & Co., 1910. Translated to English as Gustav Mahler: a study of his personality and work, 1913. Arturo Toscanini, 1927 Anton Dvořák, 1939 Verdi, the man in his letters, 1942
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