Ernest Helmut Sanders (4 December 1918 – 13 January 2018) was a German-born American musicologist.
[1] Sanders was admitted to the Juilliard School and studied under pianist Irwin Freundlich from 1947 to 1950.
Sanders then attended Columbia University, where he met Paul Henry Lang, among others.
He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1965, two years after receiving his doctorate, and subsequently appointed a full professor in 1972.
Anonymous 4 member Susan Hellauer credited Sanders with inspiring much of the group's early work.