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Frieder Zschoch
Frieder Zschoch (30 March 1932 – 3 March 2016) was a German musicologist. Life Zschoch was born in Großenhain as the second son of the Lutheran pastor Reinhold Zschoch and his wife Hildegard. He grew up in a musical home and received piano and trumpet lessons. In the autumn semester of 1950, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig for the subject musicology. His teachers there were Walter Serauky, Hellmuth Christian Wolff, Richard Petzoldt and Rudolf Eller. In addition, he studied Germanistics from 1950 to 1952 and was a guest student at the Humboldt University of Berlin with Hans-Heinz Dräger for the subject of systematic musicology. In May 1954, he passed the Staatsexamen for musicology in Leipzig. He wrote his diploma thesis on the subject ''Die Verwendung der Trompete in Oper und Sinfonik des Barockzeitalters unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Georg Friedrich Händels'' (The use of the trumpet in opera and symphonic music of the baroque age with special reference t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieder Zschoch
Frieder Zschoch (30 March 1932 – 3 March 2016) was a German musicologist. Life Zschoch was born in Großenhain as the second son of the Lutheran pastor Reinhold Zschoch and his wife Hildegard. He grew up in a musical home and received piano and trumpet lessons. In the autumn semester of 1950, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig for the subject musicology. His teachers there were Walter Serauky, Hellmuth Christian Wolff, Richard Petzoldt and Rudolf Eller. In addition, he studied Germanistics from 1950 to 1952 and was a guest student at the Humboldt University of Berlin with Hans-Heinz Dräger for the subject of systematic musicology. In May 1954, he passed the Staatsexamen for musicology in Leipzig. He wrote his diploma thesis on the subject ''Die Verwendung der Trompete in Oper und Sinfonik des Barockzeitalters unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Georg Friedrich Händels'' (The use of the trumpet in opera and symphonic music of the baroque age with special reference t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Schneider (music Historian)
Max Schneider (20 July 1875 – 5 May 1967) was a German music historian. Life Born in Eisleben, Schneider studied musicology at the University of Leipzig with Hermann Kretzschmar and Hugo Riemann and composition with Salomon Jadassohn. After his time as second Kapellmeister in Halle from 1897 to 1901, he continued his studies of music history with Kretzschmar. In 1904, he moved to Berlin, where he worked from 1905 to 1915 as a "scientific assistant" at the Alte Bibliothek. At the Royal Music Institute of Berlin, Schneider learnt orchestration and received the title of professor in 1913. In 1915, he accepted a professorship at the University of Breslau; two years later he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the beginnings of the basso continuo. From 1927, he was director of the in Breslau. In 1928, he succeeded Arnold Schering as professor for musicology at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg. After 1933, Schneider was member of the organizations Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Births
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Editors
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymologically, the term derives from Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In spite of this, the term has also been applied to spoken or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as well as the second most populous city in the area of the former East Germany after (East) Berlin. Together with Halle (Saale), the city forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle Conurbation. Between the two cities (in Schkeuditz) lies Leipzig/Halle Airport. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (known as Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster River (progression: ) and two of its tributaries: the Pleiße and the Parthe. The name of the city and those of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medieval trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Sasse
Konrad Sasse (3 October 1926 – 22 July 1981) was a German musicologist and Handel scholar. Life Sasse was born in Wernigerode. After completing his Abitur in 1946 at the Fürst-Otto-Gymnasium in Wernigerode in the Harz, he studied musicology among others with Max Schneider and Walther Siegmund-Schultze at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg from 1948 to 1954, which he completed with the Staatsexamen and obtained his doctorate with a thesis on Robert Franz (1962). The work was revised and edited by Edwin Werner in 1986. From 1954 to 1956, Sasse was secretary at the Handel Festival, Halle. From 1956 to 1981 he was director of the Handel House in Halle. At the same time he was in charge of the .Sasse Konrad on Grove Music Online In 1959, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Rehm
Wolfgang Rehm (3 September 1929 – 6 April 2017) was a German musicologist active mostly in music publishing, especially the ''Neue Mozart-Ausgabe''. He was on the board of its editorial team for decades, and personally edited operas and piano music. While he worked on it for Bärenreiter in Kassel, he was responsible for the program of the Kasseler Musiktage festival, and after he moved for further work to Salzburg, he shaped the program of the Mozartwoche. He was also a member of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres from 1959 to 1985, and also a founding member and treasurer of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales data base. Career Born in Munich, Rehm studied musicology from 1948 to 1952 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (subsidiary subjects: modern German literary history and medieval history) and graduated in 1952 with a work on the chanson work of the Franco-Flemish composer Gilles Binchois. From 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Siegmund-Schultze
Walther Siegmund-Schultze (6 July 1916 – 6 March 1993) was a German musicologist. He was the elder brother of musicologist Hella Brock. Biography Siegmund-Schultze was born in Schweinitz (Elster). In July 1940 he was promoted to Dr. phil. at the Philosophical Faculty of Universität Breslau with ''Mozarts Vokal- und Instrumentalmusik in ihren motivisch-thematischen Beziehungen'' under Franz Arnold Schmitz. Siegmund-Schultze was co-founder of the Halle Handel Festival in 1952 and in 1955 of the .Prof. em. Dr. sc. Walther Siegmund-Schultze at magdeburg.de From 1965 to 1970 he was Professor of Musicology in Leipzig. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Engelmann
George Engelmann, also known as Georg Engelmann, (2 February 1809 – 4 February 1884) was a German-American botanist. He was instrumental in describing the flora of the west of North America, then very poorly known to Europeans; he was particularly active in the Rocky Mountains and northern Mexico, one of his constant companions being another German-American, the botanical illustrator Paulus Roetter. Biography Origins George Engelmann was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the oldest of thirteen children, nine of whom reached maturity. His father, Julius Bernhardt Engelmann, was a member of a family from which for several successive generations were chosen ministers for the Reformed Church at Bacharach-on-the-Rhine. Julius was a graduate of the University of Halle, and was also educated for the ministry, but he devoted his life to education. He established a school for young women in Frankfurt, which was rare at the time. George Engelmann's mother, Julie Antoinette, was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Vötterle
Karl Vötterle (12 April 1903 – 29 October 1975) was a German music publisher. Life Vötterle was born in Augsburg. With the intention of printing song sheets for the members of the musical youth movement, he founded the Bärenreiter-Verlag in Augsburg in 1923 (since 1927 in Kassel), which he made into one of the major music publishers worldwide. The rediscovery of Heinrich Schütz was decisive for the success of the publishing house in the first years. With the publication of the Quempas in 1930 he again stimulated new advent and Christmas musical singing customs. In Munich he became involved in the youth movement reformed ''Hochschulgilde Werdandi''. The association magazine ''Der deutsche Bursch'' of the appeared about this contact in the youth movement-oriented Bärenreiter publishing house. Early on Vötterle published contemporary composers like Hugo Distler, Ernst Pepping and Willy Burkhard. Promoting the music of the present has always been one of the publisher's gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
