Carl Dahlhaus

He spent the bulk of his career as head of Technische Universität Berlin's musicology department, which he raised to an international standard.

Active as a historian, analyst, editor and organizer, he was massively influential and his work has since incited considerable discussion and debate.

[3] That year he completed his a work for his Habilitation, Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der harmonischen Tonalität (Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality), published in 1968.

[5] After working at Saarland University for less than a year, he was hired in 1967 to succeed Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt as the head of the TU Berlin's musicology department.

[3] He would remain there until his death,[4] gradually expanding and developing the university's previously minuscule musicology program to one of international renown.

[4] Dahlhaus was honored with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Grand Cross with Star), a Blue Max, and accepted into the German Academy.

[4] Towards the end of his life, Dahlhaus was the most eminent and influential musicologist of his generation, with his works continuing to incite considerable discourse, discussion and controversy.

J. Bradford Robinson gives "systematic musicology, institutional history [and] salon music" as examples of newly accepted topics due to his influence.