Willi Kahl


Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Willi Kahl was a German musicologist.

Life

Born in Saverne. Afterwards he worked as a music critic for the . In 1923 he habilitated with his dissertation Studien zur Geschichte der Klaviermusik des 18. Jahrhunderts and joined the library service in the same year. In 1928 he became library councillor at the and at the same time received an extraordinary professorship at the University of Cologne. He retired in 1958 and died in Cologne at the age of 69.
The focal points of his academic work are the history of piano music, Schubert research, as well as the music history of the Rhineland and the music bibliography.
Kahl had been married to Katharina Maria Elisabeth Poppelreuter since 1923. He died at the age of 69 in a Cologne hospital.

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