Information: Curt Sachs, author of books about music and dance.

Curt Sachs was a German musicologist. He was one of the founders of modern organology. Among his contributions was the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which he created with Erich von Hornbostel.

In 1933, because he was a Jew, Sachs was dismissed from all his academic positions and was compelled to leave Germany. He went first to Paris, where he joined André Schaeffner at the ethnological museum (now the Musée de l'Homme) and was a visiting professor at the Sorbonne. The next year he began to make the series of recordings known as L'Anthologie Sonore, which served as an invaluable guide to the actual sound of early music. In 1937 he resettled in the United States, teaching at New York University (1937–53) and serving as consultant at the New York Public Library.

Curt Sachs died Feb. 5, 1959.