Ida Halpern, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ida Halpern

Austrian-Canadian ethnomusicologist

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1910

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1987

Profession: anthropologist, musicologist, ethnomusicologist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Ida Halpern (née Ruhdörfer; July 17, 1910 – February 7, 1987) was a Canadian ethnomusicologist. Halpern was born in Vienna, Austria.
She arrived in Canada in order to flee Nazism in her native country, becoming a Canadian citizen in 1944.
She worked among Native Americans of coastal British Columbia during the mid-20th century, collecting, recording, and transcribing their music and documenting its use in their cultures.
Many of these recordings were released as LPs, with extensive liner notes and transcriptions.
More recently, her collection has also been released digitally.