Hedwig Salzer (née Lemberger [Lindtberg])
born Vienna, 1904; died New York, 2000
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Second wife of Felix Salzer.
Hedwig Lemberger-Lindtberg Salzer was the sister of the film and theater director Leopold Lindtberg. (He settled in Switzerland in the 1930s; the family name was originally Lemberger).
She and Felix Salzer married in 1939 (Salzer having separated from his first wife in 1934), and emigrated with him to the USA, living in New York. She assisted Salzer in preparing, with Hans Wolf, the German translation of Structural Hearing. She served on the Board of Governors of the Mannes School of Music, from which she received an honorary doctorate in 1987.
Bibliography:
- Strukturelles Hören: Der tonale Zusammenhang in der Musik (Wilhelmshaven: O. H. Noetzel, 1960) [Ger. transl. of Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in Music, 2 vols (New York: Charles Boni, 1952; Dover Publications, 1962)]
Contributor:
- Hedi Siegel