Carner, Mosco (1904–1985)

British critic and writer of Austrian origin. He studied at the New Vienna Conservatory and studied musicology at the university under Adler, taking a Ph.D. degree there in 1928. He then became opera conductor in Vienna, Troppau, and Danzig until 1933, when he settled in London, later becoming naturalized. He worked as a critic and music correspondent to foreign journals and published books, including A Study of 20th-Century Harmony, Of Men and Music, Puccini, a Critical Biography, Alban Berg, chapters on Schubert, Dvořák, etc.