A. Landau, 88; Musicologist and Teacher

Anneliese Landau, a musicologist known for her lectures and writings in both Europe and the United States, died Saturday in St. Vincent’s Hospital.

Miss Landau, whose doctoral thesis on the art songs of Conradin Kreutzer brought her to the attention of German musical scholars in the early 1930s, was 88.

She had intended to become a music critic in her native Germany, but that proved impossible because of her sex. Instead, she began to announce broadcast performances of the Berlin Symphony while lecturing over the Leipzig-Dresden radio network.

She also became director of the lecture department of the Jewish Culture Alliance, a group designed to encourage the artistic pursuits of German Jews.

But by then the Nazis had come to power and Miss Landau and thousands of other Jews began fleeing or were expelled. She came to the United States in 1940 and began a series of lectures for the War Emergency Fund under the auspices of B’nai B’rith.

Eventually she came to the Westside Jewish Community Center, where she began a project she called Musicians in the Making. Its alumni include Andre Previn, Myra Kestenbaum, Arnold Steinhardt, Daniel Pollock and Victor Steinhardt.

She retired to complete work on a long-envisioned book that her teaching and lecturing had not left time for: “The Lied: The Unfolding of Its Style.” That examination of poetry and music from Mozart to Britten was published in 1980.

There are no immediate survivors.