Who invented music therapy?

Question

Who invented music therapy?

Answer 1

Might be here on this site

Answer 2

Chinese Chi Kung medical science has the record before 4000

Answer 3

i wish i knew, because it is fabulous!

Answer 4

This (unreferenced and biased) Wiki article talks about the history of various music therapy organizations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_thera...

"music hath charms to soothe the savage breast"  is a line from a 17th century poem.  Music certainly has been used to relax people for thousands of years.

"Musicophillia" by neurologist Oliver Sacks details some of it's uses in stroke recovery, for example, as well as lots of his usual weird stories with a musical theme this time around.

Severely autistic people sometimes have savant musical talents.