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Alfred Heuß
Alfred Valentin Heuß also Heuss (27 January 1877 – 9 July 1934) was a German musicologist, music critic and editor of music magazines. Life Born in Chur, after studying music in Stuttgart, Munich and Leipzig, Heuß received his doctorate in 1902 and was editor of the ''Zeitschrift der internationalen Musikgesellschaft'' from 1904 to 1914, and editor-in-chief of the ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'' from 1921 to 1929. As a music critic and music writer, Heuß published mainly on early music and on the music of the classical and romantic periods. Heuß was hostile to contemporary music, which he regarded as "un-German". Oliver Hilmes has described how Heuß developed the ''Zeitschrift für Musik'' during the Weimar Republic into a bulwark against the avant-garde and everything supposedly 'un-German'. The tendency of the ''Monatsblatt'', which can be seen especially in the reviews of contemporary works, was not based on differentiated analysis, but rather brought sweeping deval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Class
A master class is a Class (education), class given to students of a particular Academic discipline, discipline by an expert of that discipline—usually music, but also science, painting, drama, games, or on any other occasion where skills are being developed. "Masterclass" is also used in a figurative sense to describe a display of great skill in a context where education was not the primary intention; e.g., “his last few laps were a ''masterclass'' in overtaking” (referencing a race around a track). Around music The difference between a normal class and a ''master class'' is typically the setup. In a master class, all the students (and often spectators) watch and listen as the master takes one student at a time. The student (typically intermediate or advanced, depending on the status of the master) usually performs a single piece (music), piece which they have prepared, and the master will give them advice on how to play it, often including anecdotes about the composer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1877 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . * January 8 – Great Sioux War of 1876 – Battle of Wolf Mountain: Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry in Montana. * January 20 – The Conference of Constantinople ends, with Ottoman Turkey rejecting proposals of internal reform and Balkan provisions. * January 29 – The Satsuma Rebellion, a revolt of disaffected samurai in Japan, breaks out against the new imperial government; it lasts until September, when it is crushed by a professionally led army of draftees. * February 17 – Major General Charles George Gordon of the British Army is appointed Governor-General of the Sudan. * March – ''The Nineteenth Century (periodical), The Nineteenth Century'' magazine is founded in London. * Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WorldCat
WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries), in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC, Inc. Many of the OCLC member libraries collectively maintain WorldCat's database, the world's largest bibliographic database. The database includes other information sources in addition to member library collections. OCLC makes WorldCat itself available free to libraries, but the catalog is the foundation for other subscription OCLC services (such as resource sharing and collection management). WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the general public. , WorldCat contained over 540 million bibliographic records in 483 languages, representing over 3 billion physical and digital library assets, and the WorldCat persons dataset (Data mining, mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million people. History OCLC OCLC, Inc., doing bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Schnoor
Hans Schnoor (4 October 1893 – 15 January 1976) was a German musicologist, journalist and music critic. In the late 1950s, he attracted media attention with his denunciation of Arnold Schönberg's ''A Survivor from Warsaw''. living and work Career Born in Neumünster, Schnoor was the son of a student council. After studying musicology in Leipzig with Hugo Riemann and Karl Straube and completing his doctorate in musicology with Arnold Schering, Schnoor was initially music editor at the Leipzig ''Freie Presse''. Since January 1922 he was director of the feuilleton and music editor of the ''Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten'', before he changed as an editor to the '. In 1926, Schnoor returned to Dresden and was music editor of the '' Dresdner Anzeiger'' until 1945 and also lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. During this time he personally met Richard Strauss and Hans Pfitzner. In addition to his work as a music editor, Schnoor was also active as an au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Stege
Fritz Stege (11 April 1896 – 31 March 1967) was a German music journalist in the era of National Socialism and composer of accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ... music. Life Born in , Stege attended a Realgymnasium in Berlin and was drafted at the beginning of the First World War, in the war where he lost his father who had also been drafted.Michael H. Kater: ''Gewagtes Spiel'', 1998, From 1919 to 1923 he studied musicology with Jean Paul Ertel and Johannes Wolf (musicologist), Johannes Wolf at the University of Berlin and was awarded a doctorate with a dissertation on Constantin Christian Dedekind. During his student days, Stege composed Schlager, which he had to dismiss as a youthful sin during the period of National Socialism when he was a victim of int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Bosse
Gustav Bosse (6 February 1884 – 27 March 1943) was a German music publisher. Life Born in Vienenburg/Harz as son of the sugar factory director and music publisher Fritz Bosse, he founded the for music books in Regensburg in 1912. Already the programme of the publication series ''Deutsche Musikbücherei'' showed a strictly anti-modernist, German-national orientation. Since 1919 he had a friendship with the book illustrator Hans Wildermann who illustrated many of his printed products. He published the ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'' in 1929 until his death in 1943. In 1939 he was appointed honorary senator of the University of Cologne because of his merits for the Anton Bruckner movement. Since May 1, 1933, Bosse had been a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, NSDAP (membership number 2.530.992). He was also leader of the artificial circle of the NS-community Kraft durch Freude. On 19 March 1938 Bosse gave the following autobiographical information in response ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Musik
''Die Musik'' was a German music magazine established in 1901 by Bernhard Schuster (1870–1934). It was published semimonthly by Schuster & Loeffler from Berlin and Leipzig. Schuster was its editor-in-chief from inception until July 1933, when the publication was taken over by the Third Reich. The final publication, under the name ''Die Musik,'' was February 1943. History First published on Septembere 20, 1901, ''Die Musik'' ran semimonthly through September 1915, suspended publication due to World War I. In 1922, the publisher, Schuster & Loeffler, merged with the Stuttgart firm Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (de); and in October 1922, ''Die Musik'' (Vol. 25, Issue 1) resumed with Schuster as editor. A leaflet attached to the June 1933 issue marked its beginning as the official music journal of the Nazi Party. The publication continued through 1943, changing its name in 1943 to ''Musik im Kriege'' ''(Music in War)'' and continued through 1944. ''Die Musik'' was the first German mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Heuss
Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975-) South African Film Producer * Alice Henson Ernst (1880-1980), American writer and historian * Britta Ernst (born 1961), German politician * Cornelia Ernst, German politician * Edzard Ernst, German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine * Emil Ernst, astronomer * Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), former District Judge in Walker County, Texas * Eugen Ernst (1864–1954), German politician * Fabian Ernst, German soccer player * Gustav Ernst, Austrian writer * Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Moravian violinist and composer * Jim Ernst, Canadian politician * Jimmy Ernst, American painter, son of Max Ernst * Joni Ernst, U.S. Senator from Iowa * K.S. Ernst, American visual poet * Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933) * Ken Ernst, U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Heuß (historian)
Alfred Valentin Heuß also Heuss (27 January 1877 – 9 July 1934) was a German musicologist, music critic and editor of music magazines. Life Born in Chur, after studying music in Stuttgart, Munich and Leipzig, Heuß received his doctorate in 1902 and was editor of the ''Zeitschrift der internationalen Musikgesellschaft'' from 1904 to 1914, and editor-in-chief of the '' Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'' from 1921 to 1929. As a music critic and music writer, Heuß published mainly on early music and on the music of the classical and romantic periods. Heuß was hostile to contemporary music, which he regarded as "un-German". Oliver Hilmes has described how Heuß developed the ''Zeitschrift für Musik'' during the Weimar Republic into a bulwark against the avant-garde and everything supposedly 'un-German'. The tendency of the ''Monatsblatt'', which can be seen especially in the reviews of contemporary works, was not based on differentiated analysis, but rather brought sweeping dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prussian Academy Of Arts
The Prussian Academy of Arts (German: ''Preußische Akademie der Künste'') was a state arts academy first established in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and later king in Prussia. After the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome and the Académies Royales in Paris, the Prussian Academy of Art was the oldest institution of its kind in Europe, with a similar mission to other royal academies of that time, such as the Real Academia Española in Madrid, the Royal Society in London, or the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. The academy had a decisive influence on art and its development in the German-speaking world throughout its existence. For an extended period of time it was also the German artists' society and training organisation, whilst the Academy's Senate became Prussia's arts council as early as 1699. It dropped 'Prussian' from its name in 1945 and was finally disbanded in 1955 after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
