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Ernst C. Krohn
Ernst Christopher Krohn (December 23, 1888-March 21, 1975) was a piano teacher, musicologist, composer, and music educator who was active in St Louis, Missouri during the first half of the 20th century.

Ernst Krohn was born December 23, 1888, in New York City. His father, Ernst Ludwig Krohn, was a composer and musician who moved his family to St. Louis in 1897. Because of his family's financial problems, Krohn's formal education ended early in his first year of high school, and he resolved to educate himself. He eventually realized that his best career path would be as a music teacher, and he built on the piano training he has received from his father. Krohn took a job in the music store of Adam Shattinger and studied piano with J.C. Eisenberg, Louis Hammerstein, and finally with Ottmar Moll. Krohn also took on private students, and eventually became Ottmar Moll's first assistant, teaching in his studio beginning in 1923 and inheriting his studio furnishings and many of his students when Moll died in 1934.

Krohn's work at Shattinger's advanced from order clerk to an associate editor for the company's publications. He continued his program of self-education, and amassed a large library of books, scores, and journals for that purpose. Krohn began publishing articles and essays, and by 1924 considered himself to have been accepted in the musical scholarly community as a musicologist.

The Depression caused Krohn to lose many students, and he resolved to begin lecturing on music. His initial ten-lecture course attracted forty students, and he gradually increased its size to 105 lectures. This prompted an invitation in 1939 to teach in Washington University's University College, which he did until 1953. In that year he accepted an invitation from Saint Louis University to head its music department, teaching there until his retirement in 1963. He also served as an advisor for the University's project to microfilm the Vatican Library.

Krohn's Op. 1, Sunset on the River, was published by the Oliver Ditson Company in 1917. He subsequently composed many pieces for piano, often with a pedagogical focus. In addition to his edidorial work with Shattinger, Krohn edited and annotated piano works published by the Art Publication SocietyArt Publication Society, including his own Valse romantique and A little waltz.

After Krohn retired from Saint Louis University, he did what he described as "bibliographical work" at the Saint Louis Public Library and the Gaylord Music Library of Washington University from 1964 until 1974. Krohn's extensive library was purchased by Washington University in 1966, and Krohn was appointed honorary curator of the collection. Part of that work involved integrating his sheet music collection into that owned by the Gaylord Music Library. Much of Krohn's sheet music had been salvaged from discards from the Saint Louis Public Library's collection.

From the 1960s, Krohn lived in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, with his sister and niece. The family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1974, where Krohn died on March 21, 1975.