Hugo Leichtentritt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hugo Leichtentritt

German-Jewish musicologist and composer

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1874

Place of Birth: Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 13-Nov-1951

Profession: composer, musicologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Hugo Leichtentritt (1 January 1874, Pleschen, Polish: Pleszew, nearby Posen, Province of Posen – 13 November 1951, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a German-Jewish musicologist and composer who spent much of his life in the USA.
His pupils include composers Leroy Robertson and Erich Walter Sternberg.