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Joseph Müller-Blattau
Joseph Maria Müller-Blattau (21 May 1895 – 21 October 1976) was a German musicologist and Nazism, National Socialist cultural official. He is regarded as a "nestor of Saarbrücken musicology" but also as a "singer of a musical Adolf Hitler's rise to power, seizure of power"Wolfgang Müller''Zur Geschichte des Musikwissenschaftlichen Instituts an der Universität des Saarlandes.''retrieved on 6 July 2019 because of his activities in National Socialism. Life and career Müller-Blattau, son of a senior teacher, was born in Colmar. He took part to the First World War. He studied musicology with Friedrich Ludwig (musicologist), Friedrich Ludwig at the University of Strasbourg, studied composition and conducting with Hans Pfitzner and organ with Ernst Münch (musician), Ernst Münch. Later he studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg where Wilibald Gurlitt was his teacher. During his studies he became a member of the '' Wettina Freiburg'', later the ''Singererschaft Rhenan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Joseph Maria Müller-Blattau (21 May 1895 – 21 October 1976) was a German musicologist and Nazism, National Socialist cultural official. He is regarded as a "nestor of Saarbrücken musicology" but also as a "singer of a musical Adolf Hitler's rise to power, seizure of power"Wolfgang Müller''Zur Geschichte des Musikwissenschaftlichen Instituts an der Universität des Saarlandes.'' retrieved on 6 July 2019 because of his activities in National Socialism. Life and career Müller-Blattau, son of a senior teacher, was born in Colmar. He took part to the First World War. He studied musicology with Friedrich Ludwig (musicologist), Friedrich Ludwig at the University of Strasbourg, studied composition and conducting with Hans Pfitzner and organ with Ernst Münch (musician), Ernst Münch. Later he studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg where Wilibald Gurlitt was his teacher. During his studies he became a member of the '' Wettina Freiburg'', later the ''Singererschaft Rhena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Klee
Ernst Klee (15 March 1942, Frankfurt – 18 May 2013, Frankfurt) was a German journalist and author. As a writer on Germany's history, he was best known for his exposure and documentation of medical crimes in Nazi Germany, much of which was concerned with the Action T4 or involuntary euthanasia program. He is the author of ''"The Good Old Days": The Holocaust Through the Eyes of the Perpetrators and Bystanders'' first published in the English translation in 1991. Life and work Klee was first trained as a sanitary and heating technician. Afterwards, he caught up on his university entrance requirements and then studied theology and social education. As a journalist in the 1970s, he looked at socially excluded groups, such as the homeless, psychiatric patients and the disabled. During this period, he collaborated with Gusti Steiner, who laid the foundation for the federal German emancipatory movement of the disabled at that time. In 1997, he received the ''Geschwister-Scholl-Preis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reichsuniversität Straßburg
The Reichsuniversität Straßburg (RUS) was founded 1941 by the National Socialists in Alsace, annexed to Nazi Germany, while the regular University of Strasbourg moved to Clermont-Ferrand in 1940. The purpose was to create a continuity to the German character of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universität — as the University of Strasbourg was named from 1872 to 1918. In 1941, it was to the fore of German invaders to propagate the "pure German knowledge" of national socialistic character in the annexed Alsace-Lorraine. When the Allies arrived in Alsace in 1944, the Reichsuniversität was first transferred to Tübingen and then dissolved. Among the professors based at RUS were Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Rudolf Fleischmann, Walter Noddack as well as Nazi physician and war criminal August Hirt. It is at its ''Institut d'Anatomie Normale'' that he conducted his experiences of "racial anatomy" and planned the Jewish skull collection. See also * Natzweiler-Struthof References Citat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv
The German Broadcasting Archive (''Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv''; DRA) is a non-profit foundation supported by the ARD. It was founded in 1952 as "German sound archive". The DRA covers essential aspects of the development of German broadcasting. Today it has two locations: Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ... and Potsdam-Babelsberg (formerly Berlin-Adlershof). Further reading * See also * Rundfunk der DDR * Jahrbuch Medien und Geschichte * List of sound archives External links Official Site Television archives Sound archives in Germany Film archives in Germany 1952 establishments in West Germany {{film-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Spitta
Heinrich Arnold Theodor Spitta (19 March 1902 – 23 June 1972) was a German music educator, composer and musicologist. Life Born in Strasbourg, Spitta came from a family of musicians and theologians. His father was the theologian Friedrich Spitta and his uncle the musicologist and Bach biographer Philipp Spitta. Spitta studied with Arnold Mendelssohn and Hermann Grabner and was awarded a doctorate in 1927 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with a dissertation about Heinrich Schütz. In 1933, Spitta taught as a teacher at the Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin and was at the same time appointed to the cultural office of the Reichsjugendführer. He mainly composed choral works which were used in the celebrations of the Hitler Youth (e.g. ''Heilig Vaterland,'' 1934; ''Jahr überm Pflug,'' 1936). Due to this activity, he was partly included in the and Gottbegnadeten list during the war. From 1950 Spitta taught at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baritone
A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek (), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C (i.e. F2–F4) in choral music, and from the second A below middle C to the A above middle C (A2 to A4) in operatic music, but the range can extend at either end. Subtypes of baritone include the baryton-Martin baritone (light baritone), lyric baritone, ''Kavalierbariton'', Verdi baritone, dramatic baritone, ''baryton-noble'' baritone, and the bass-baritone. History The first use of the term "baritone" emerged as ''baritonans'', late in the 15th century, usually in French sacred polyphonic music. At this early stage it was frequently used as the lowest of the voices (including the bass), but in 17th-century Italy the term was all-encompassing and used to describe the averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reinhold Hammerstein
Reinhold Hammerstein (9 April 1915 – 22 April 2010) was a German musicologist. Life and career Hammerstein was born in , Hessen, son of the rektor August Hammerstein. After his Abitur, he studied musicology, history and German studies at the University of Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1940 he obtained the Academic Degree of Dr. phil. In addition he completed an education in piano and singing. During the Second World War he served as a soldier in Russia, but was dismissed from military service as incurably ill due to a severe dysentery. He spent the end of the war in 1944/45 in Tengen at Lake Constance. In 1946 he was assigned lecturer of music history at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, a position he held until 1958. In 1954 his habilitation qualified him as private lecturer of musicology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, where he was appointed extraordinary professor in 1962. Between 1955 and 1956 he also held a visiting scholar positi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenor
A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The low extreme for tenors is widely defined to be B2, though some roles include an A2 (two As below middle C). At the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to the second F above middle C (F5). The tenor voice type is generally divided into the ''leggero'' tenor, lyric tenor, spinto tenor, dramatic tenor, heldentenor, and tenor buffo or . History The name "tenor" derives from the Latin word ''wikt:teneo#Latin, tenere'', which means "to hold". As Fallows, Jander, Forbes, Steane, Harris and Waldman note in the "Tenor" article at ''Grove Music Online'': In polyphony between about 1250 and 1500, the [tenor was the] structurally fundamental (or 'holding') voice, vocal or instrumental; by the 15th century it came to signify the male voice that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Metz
Friedrich may refer to: Names *Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich'' *Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich'' Other *Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' War * ''Friedrich'' (novel), a novel about anti-semitism written by Hans Peter Richter *Friedrich Air Conditioning, a company manufacturing air conditioning and purifying products *, a German cargo ship in service 1941-45 See also *Friedrichs (other) *Frederick (other) *Nikolaus Friedreich Nikolaus Friedreich (1 July 1825 in Würzburg – 6 July 1882 in Heidelberg) was a German pathologist and neurologist, and a third generation physician in the Friedreich family. His father was psychiatrist Johann Baptist Friedreich (1796–1862) ... {{disambig ja:フリードリヒ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gesellschaft Für Musikforschung
The ''Gesellschaft für Musikforschung'' (GfM) is a professional association of musicologists and institutes active in study, research and teaching in Germany. It has over 1600 members. The association is based in Kassel, Hesse. History The society was founded in 1946, continuing the work of a predecessor institution. It deals with questions of historical musicology, ethnomusicology and systematic musicology. The society also promotes musicological research in dialogue with other disciplines. In addition, it sees itself as an organ for communicating findings from the field of music to the public. The society publishes the scholarly journal ''Die Musikforschung'' by Bärenreiter-Verlag and also collaborates with the publishers Breitkopf & Härtel, Henle, Laaber, Georg Olms, and Schott. Every year a scientific conference with symposia, lectures and events of the specialist groups is organized; every four years another one is held as the "International Congress of the Society fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph-Hellmut Mahling
Christoph-Hellmut Mahling (25 May 1932 – 13 February 2012) was a German musicologist and lecturer at various universities. Life and career Born in Berlin, Mahling studied musicology by Walter Gerstenberg, Georg Reichert, Joseph Müller-Blattau, and Walter Salmen at the University of Tübingen and the Saarland University (Saarbrücken) from 1957 to 1962. In 1962 he obtained his doctorate of phil. (Dissertation: ''Studien zur Geschichte des Opernchors'') and became assistant at the Musicological Institute of the Saarland University in 1963. In 1972, he won his habilitation there with Walter Wiora for the subject Musicology (Habil.-Schrift: ''Orchester und Orchester-Musiker in Deutschland von 1700 bis 1850''). In the same year he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor. Since 1981 he had a professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; until March 2000 he was director of the musicological institute there. From 1987 to 1992 Mahling was president of the Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was of the (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of the Holocaust. As a member of a reserve battalion during World War I, Himmler did not see active service, and did not fight. He studied agriculture in university, and joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and the SS in 1925. In 1929, he was appointed by Adolf Hitler. Over the next 16 years, he developed the SS from a 290-man battalion into a million-strong paramilitary group, and set up and controlled the Nazi concentration camps. He was known for good organisational skills and for selecting highly competent subordinates, such as Reinhard Heydrich in 1931. From 1943 onwards, he was both Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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