Carl Ferdinand Pohl

Anton Carl Ferdinand Pohl was a German-Austrian music historian, archivist, and composer.

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Carl Ferdinand Pohl, a German writer, studied under Sechter in Vienna before serving as organist of the Protestant church at Gumpendorf, Vienna, from 1849 to 1855. He later spent three years in London, from 1863 to 1866, diligently researching materials related to Mozart and Haydn, a period that culminated in his two-volume work, Mozart und Haydn in London, published in Vienna in 1867 (Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1886). This work is noted in A Description and History of the Pianoforte (1896) for its detail on Shudi’s “Venetian swell” harpsichord. In 1866, Pohl became the librarian for the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. His Die Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde und ihr Conservatorium in Wien (1871) is cited in Dictionary of Music (1896) as a source for Beethoven’s letters. Pohl also embarked on a comprehensive biography of Joseph Haydn, with the first volume appearing in Berlin in 1875, though the work was completed by E. v. Mandyczewski after Pohl’s death in 1887, as recorded in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). Beyond these major works, Pohl composed some pianoforte music and contributed extensively to periodical literature, including Grove’s “Dictionary of Music” (Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1886). He also co-authored a “Bibliographic der Musiksammelwerke des 16. u. 17. Jahrh.s” with Robert Eitner and others (A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1900).