Paul Stefan

 ( 1879 Births ) 

Paul Stefan, born Paul Stefan Grünfeld (25 November 1879 in Brno – 12 November 1943 in New York City) 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 Paul 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). Musikblätter des Anbruch (ANB)

• 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