ABSTRACT
German psychologist, born in Wiesentheid. He earned a doctorate in 1870, and was a professor at Würzburg in 1873. Later he taught in Prague, Halle, and Munich. In 1893 he established the Psychological Institute at the University of Berlin for research into musical perception. He was also interested in the music of other cultures, which led him to make a cylinder recording of the court orchestra of Siam, as they visited Berlin in 1900. He deposited this and other records in the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv, established by him in 1905. He died in Berlin.
