About Franz Espagne
Lived 1828 – 1878 (aged 50). Franz Espagne was a musicologist.
Franz Espagne (21 April 1828 – 24 May 1878) was a German musicologist and librarian.
Life Born in Münster, Espagne was a student of the 19th-century musicologist Siegfried Dehn in Berlin. In 1858 he was music director in Bielefeld for a short time. In the same year, after the untimely death of Dehn, he took over the management of the music department of the Königliche Bibliothek in Berlin. He held this office until his death.
Publications Verzeichnis sämmtlicher Werke Dr. Carl Loewe's ("Catalogue of the complete works of Dr. Carl Loewe"), Berlin 1870
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Who was Franz Espagne?
German musicologist
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Franz Espagne was born on 21 April 1828 in Münster.
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Franz Espagne died on 24 May 1878 in Berlin.
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Franz Espagne was a musicologist.
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