Samuel Baud-Bovy

Samuel Baud-Bovy (27 November 1906 – 2 November 1986) was a Swiss musician, ethnomusicologist, and college professor.

Baud-Bovy was director of the Geneva Conservatory of Music and a professor of Greek at the University of Geneva. He collected folk songs in the Dodecanese Islands in the 1930s, for his doctoral research. French linguist Hubert Pernot was his mentor. After World War II he made several music collecting tours in Crete. He was a member of the International Folk Music Council from 1948, and served on the group's executive council from 1977 to 1981.

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