His brother Dimitry Markevitch became a noted musicologist and cellist. Herbert Eimert was a composer, musicologist, and journalist. The musicologist and historian Hans Redlich mistakenly allocates Magli to the role of Orfeo. His grandfather was a well-known musicologist and violinist in Riga. He was also an acclaimed poet, singer, and a musicologist. The Neopythagorean mathematician and musicologist Nicomachus likewise expanded on Pythagorean numerology and music theory. His maternal grandfather was conductor and musicologist Elliot Forbes. Seeger was the brother of Charles Seeger, a noted American pacifist and musicologist. Smith is considered to be the first Englishman to be a serious antiquarian and musicologist. Paul-Gilbert Langevin, who became a renowned musicologist. Dr David Skinner is a British musicologist and choir director. The musicologist and Schubert expert Rita Steblin has said that he was "chasing women". Musicologist David Rothenberg has endorsed this information. This sonority, musicologist Richard Taruskin points out, is essentially Germanic in effect. Adorno's reputation as a musicologist has been in steady decline since his death.