Background
Wellesz, Egon Joseph was born on October 21, 1885 in Vienna, Austria. Son of S. Wellesz and Ilona.
Wellesz, Egon Joseph was born on October 21, 1885 in Vienna, Austria. Son of S. Wellesz and Ilona.
Doctor of Philosophy, U. Vienna, 1908. Fellow Lincoln College. Doctor of Music (honorary), University of Oxford, 1932.
Harvard visiting scholar, Dumbarton Oaks, 1954, 56-57.
Privat dozent U. Vienna, 1913-1929, professor, 1929-1938. Lecturer, reader faculty of music University of Oxford, 1938-1956. Lecturer Yale, Columbia, University of California, University of Southern California, 1954, Princeton, Library Congress, 1957.
Vice president Consociation International Musicae Sacrae, 1964.
Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy, British Academy.
Married Emmy Stross, August 23, 1908. Children: Magda Pole, Elizabeth Maria Kessler.