Kurt Reinhard (27 August 1914 – 18 July 1979) was a German musicologist and ethnomusicologist who specialised in Turkish music.^[1]

Born in Gießen, Germany, he studied musicology and composition at the University of Cologne from 1933 to 1935, and ethnology at the Universities of Leipzig and Munich from 1935-1936. He took his doctorate at Munich doing his dissertation on Burmese music. In 1952–1968, he was a director of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv.

His chief area of interest in the field of ethnomusicology was the folk music of Turkey.^[1]

Selected publications

• Types of Turkmenian Songs in Turkey, Journal of the International Folk Music Council 9, 1956
• On the problem of pre-pentatonic scales: particularly the third-second nucleus, Journal of the International Folk Music Council 10, 1958
• Türkische Musik, Berlin, 1962
• "Türkische Musik", in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1966
• Musique de Turquie (in French, with Ursula Reinhard), Buchet/Chastel (Paris), 1996