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Egert Pöhlmann, born in Nuremberg, studied in Munich and Erlangen (Germany), where he was Professor for Classic Philology from 1980 until his retirement in 2001. He is one of the most important scholars in the field of Ancient Greek Music.

He wrote about 200 contributions on Greek and Latin Literature, Ancient Theatre, Ancient Greek Music, History of the Church Organ, among which there are eight books (including the first repertoire of ancient musical fragments, first published in 1970 and then, in the updated version, in 2001, in collaboration with Martin L. West). In 2004 he obtained the title of Dr. Phil. h.c. from the Kapodistrian University in Athens, and in 2011 he was received as Corresponding Member by the Academy of Athens. As a recognition of his long and remarkable career, in 2018 he was appointed as Honorary Member of MOISA.