Nathan Notowicz

After the Machtergreifung by the Nazis, he emigrated to Amsterdam in 1933, where he studied with Willem Andriessen and Stefan Askenase and worked as a music teacher and musician.

In 1950, he became professor of music history and vice-rector of the newly founded Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in East Berlin.

Along with the founding rector of the university, Georg Knepler, his professorial colleague Harry Goldschmidt, the editor-in-chief of the journal Musik und Gesellschaft, Eberhard Rebling, and the professor of music sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Ernst Hermann Meyer, Notowicz was one of the leading Marxist musicologists of the young GDR.

[2] In the Musikrat der DDR [de] founded on 9 May 1962, Notowicz was elected Secretary General; the President was Hanns Eisler.

His wife Ann Notowicz was a staff member of the Women's International Democratic Federation and later chairman of the Komitee der Antifaschistischen Widerstandskämpfer [de] in Berlin-Köpenick.