Eta (Margarete) Harich-Schneider (née Schneider; 16 November 1894 – 10 January 1986) was a German harpsichordist, musicologist, Japanologist and writer. Life Born in Oranienburg, Harich-Schneider later gave her year of birth as 1897, whereas her gravestone in Vienna-Hietzing reads "1894". Harich-Schneider graduated from high school in 1915 and married the writer the same year (1888 - 1931), but she left him in 1922 (divorce). Harich-Schneider raised her daughters Lili and Susanne alone. Since the early 1920s, (the Proust translator) and Klabund were among her friends. She studied piano in Berlin with Conrad Ansorge. When she was already an established pianist, she took lessons with Wilhelm Klatte (1870-1930). In 1924, she made her debut at the first performance of Paul Hindemith's Suite 1922 at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. But she only moved finally from Frankfurt (Oder) to Berlin in 1927. From about 1929, she studied harpsichord with Günther Ramin in Leipzig and then until 1935 with Wanda Landowska in Paris (summer courses). In 1930, she first performed publicly as a harpsichordist in Berlin. In 1930, she founded a fortnightly concert series of collegium for early music and began to study sources in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, which led to her later book Die Kunst des Cembalo-Spiels. From 1932 to 1940, she was professor and head of the harpsichord class at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where she also taught stylistics and chamber music. In 1940 she was dismissed there (as a catholic antifascist) in connection with politically motivated conflicts. In 1941, Harich-Schneider took advantage of an invitation to go to Tokyo in order to escape the grip of Nazi power. There she gave concerts and taught. Some time later she began to study Japanese language, writing and music. She had a love affair with the "master spy" Richard Sorge, whose activities she knew. After the war, she taught in Tokyo both at the US Army College and in the Court Music Department of the Imperial House of Japan (1947 to 1949). She published two standard works on Japanese music. In 1949, she went to New York, where she attended Japanese Studies at Columbia University and Sociology at The New School for Social Research. She received an award for her master's thesis The relations of foreign and native elements in the development of Japanese music - a case study. 1955 - she became a Guggenheim Fellow in that year - she