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Biography of Hermann Abert: – German musicologist. His interest in music stems from the influence exerted on him by his father, also a musician and author of operas, seven symphonies and different musical works. From 1890 to 1895 he studied classical and contemporary music in Berlin under the supervision of H. Bellermann, Fleischer and Friedlaender. He obtained his doctorate in Berlin in 1897 with a dissertation on the music of
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