Rudolf Westphal
Rudolf Westphal was a German classical scholar.
Life
Westphal was born at Obernkirchen in Schaumburg.He studied at Marburg and Tübingen, and was professor at Breslau and Moscow. He subsequently lived at Bückeburg, and died at Stadthagen in Schaumburg-Lippe on 10 July 1892. Westphal devoted his life in translating and interpreting the works of Aristoxenus. He then applied Greek theories of poetic meter to eighteenth- and nineteenth century music.
Westphal was a man of varied attainments, but his chief claim to remembrance rests upon his contributions on Greek music and metre.
His chief works were:
- Griechische Metrik
- System der antiken Rhythmik
- Hephaestion's De metris enchiridion
- Aristoxenus of Tarentum
- Die Musik des griechischen Altertums
- Allgemeine Metrik der indogermanischen and semitischen Volker