Kurt Blaukopf

[1] Blaukopf was born in Czernowitz (then Austria-Hungary, now Ukraine), but the family soon left Bukovina for Vienna where he studied law and political science.

After the Anschluss in 1938, he had to leave Austria and continued to work in Paris, and in 1940 he moved to Jerusalem.

Blaukopf never completed his studies, and he worked as a freelance musicologist and music critic since 1947.

[2][3] Kurt Blaukopf was in contact with numerous influential intellectuals of the pre-war and post-war periods, such as Hanns Eisler, Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Popper.

He was married to the Mahler researcher Herta Blaukopf [de] (née Singer), with whom he co-published several works.