Paul Stefan

{{Short description|Austrian music historian (1879–1943)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Paul Stefan

| image = Paul Stefan (1879–1943) © Wilhelm Willinger (1879–1943) ~1925.jpg

| birth_name = Paul Stefan Grünfeld

| birth_date = November 25, 1879

| birth_place = Brno, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)

| death_date = {{death date and age|November 12, 1943|November 25, 1879}}

| death_place = New York City, USA

| nationality = Austrian

| occupation = Music historian, critic

| notable_works = Editor of Musikblätter des Anbruch

}}

Paul Stefan, born Paul Stefan Grünfeld (25 November 1879, in Brno – 12 November 1943, in New York City) was an Austrian music historian and critic.

Born into an assimilated Jewish family,Klara Moricz (ed.), Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music, University of California Press (2008), p. 6 Paul Stefan came to live in Vienna in 1898.Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig, Gustav Mahler: new insights into his life, times and work, p. 31 He attended courses in law, philosophy and art history at the University of Vienna, before studying music theory with Hermann Graedener and possibly composition under Arnold Schoenberg.Henry-Louis de La Grange, Gustav Mahler: A new life cut short (1907–1911), Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 781 From 1922 to 1937 he edited the Austrian music journal Musikblätter des Anbruch (entitled simply Anbruch from 1929).[http://www.ripm.org/journals/ANB.php Musikblätter des Anbruch (ANB)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719135726/http://www.ripm.org/journals/ANB.php |date=2011-07-19 }}