taught harpsichord at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna until 1972. In 1968, she was also awarded the Austrian Cross of Merit for Science and Art. In Japan she received the high Imperial Japanese House Order Order of the Precious Crown in 1977. Since 1941, Eta Harich-Schneider has also translated literary works from several languages into German, especially English (Shakespeare's sonnets). Her harpsichord and clavichord students included Carla Henius, René Clemencic and Christiane Jaccottet. In her autobiography Charaktere und Katastrophen, she reports on her efforts to resist the increasing influence of Nazi-oriented functionaries and musicians on the Berlin Hochschule für Musik by constitutional means until 1941. In addition, the book gives a nuanced account of the situation in the circle of Germans in Japan from 1941 until after 1945, not excluding human error, intrigue and tactical followers. It also reports on the situation of the Japanese population during the war (air raids). But even at the university in Berlin she was only partially successful in the 1930s - in the end, as an anti-fascist-oriented Catholic, she was pushed aside by intrigues, which she describes in detail in her autobiography. After the war, she was one of the leading authorities on Japanese music, with close contacts to the Japanese imperial house. Harich-Schneider died in Vienna in 1986 at the age of 88. Her daughter Lili Harich (24 May 1916 - 1960) was a soprano and her younger daughter (5 February 1918 - 1950) a writer. Work Harich-Schneider wrote books on the technique of harpsichord playing and Japanese music. She has made recordings of Baroque music, such as the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 988 in 1973 and the two-and three-part Inventions BWV 772-786 and 787–801, as well as recordings East Asian music. During her time in Berlin, she raised the playing of early music to a new level: "One would probably have liked to leave the amateurs their joy in the undemanding playing of the rediscovered music of earlier centuries, but with almost religious fanaticism they forced their bawling opinions on professional musicians. Publications Die Kunst des Cembalo-Spiels, nach den vorhandenen Quellen dargestellt und erläutert, 4th edition, Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel, 1979 (first in 1939) The harpsichord: an introduction to technique, style and the historical sources, 2nd edition, Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1973 Charaktere und Katastrophen, Ullstein Verlag 1978 (Memoirs) A History of Japanese Music. Oxford University Press 1973 Musikalische Impressionen aus