Arnold Feil (2 October 1925 – 30 March 2019) was a German

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

and academic scholar.

Life

Feil was born in Mannheim, but grew up in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. He studied music (piano and

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) at the

Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim The Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim is a Hochschule, a university for music and performing arts in Mannheim, Germany, of the state Baden-Württemberg History The Hochschule dates back to the 1762 ''Academie ...

and the

as well as

musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

, Latin

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

of the Middle Ages, history (Middle Ages), philosophy and

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, which he completed with a doctorate in 1954. From 1954 to 1958, he worked as a music commissioner at the cultural office of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. From 1959 to 1982, he was a lecturer for musicology at the

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; at the same time he was a lecturer for musicology at the Fachhochschule für Bibliothekswesen Stuttgart. He habilitated at the

Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Eberhard is an old Germanic name meaning the strength or courage of a wild boar. People First name *Eberhard of Friuli (815–866), Duke and key figure in the Carolingian Empire *Eberhard of Béthune (died 1212), Flemish grammarian *Eberhard I, Du ...

in 1965 and was an associate professor of musicology there from 1972. After serving as professor of music history at the

Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (german: Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, italics=unset, abbreviated to HMTMH) is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating ...

in 1977 and 1978, he was professor of musicology again in

Tübingen Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in thr ...

from 1979 to 1988. In 1965, he was one of the founders of the International

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...

Society, which published the

New Schubert Edition Franz Schubert (1797–1828): New Edition of the Complete Works (), commonly known as the New Schubert Edition (NSE), or, in german: Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (NSA), is a complete edition of Franz Schubert's works, which started in 1956 and is schedu ...

, in which Feil played a major role until his retirement. On the occasion of Feil's 90th birthday, the University of Tübingen hosted a ceremony on 13 October 2015 with greetings from Jürgen Leonhardt and Thomas Schipperges. The keynote speech entitled "Arnold Feil: 60 Years of Music Research" was given by

Walther Dürr Walther Dürr (27 April 1932 – 6 January 2018) was a German musicologist. He is especially known for his research of the work of Franz Schubert. From 1965 to 1997 Dürr was editor of the '' Neue Schubert-Ausgabe'', with particular responsibility ...

, and musical contributions were made by Jörg Büchler, Andreas Flad and Naomi Kautt. Feil died in TübingenTodesanzeige Prof. Dr. Arnold Feil
In ''

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'', 3 April 2019 at the age of 93.

Publications

Books

* ''Satztechnische Fragen in den Kompositionslehren von Friedrich Erhard Niedt, Joseph Riepel and

Heinrich Christoph Koch Heinrich Christoph Koch (10 October 1749 – 19 March 1816) was a German music theorist, musical lexicographer and composer. In his lifetime, his music dictionary was widely distributed in Germany and Denmark; today his theory of form and syntax ...

'', Diss. Heidelberg 1955.
''Studien zu Schuberts Rhythmik''
Munich 1966, 2nd edition. Hildesheim 1997 (Habilitationsschrift). * ''Franz Schubert.

Die schöne Müllerin ' (,"The Fair Maid of the Mill", Op. 25, D. 795), is a song cycle by Franz Schubert from 1823 based on 20 poems by Wilhelm Müller. It is the first of Schubert's two seminal cycles (preceding ''Winterreise'')'','' and a pinnacle of ''Lied'' re ...

Winterreise ''Winterreise'' (, ''Winter Journey'') is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert ( D. 911, published as Op. 89 in 1828), a setting of 24 poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller. It is the second of Schubert's two song cycles on Müller' ...

'', Stuttgart 1975, 2nd edition 1996. * Edited together with Werner Aderhold, Walther Dürr and Christa Landon: ''

Otto Erich Deutsch Otto Erich Deutsch (5 September 1883 – 23 November 1967) was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition pub ...

. Franz Schubert. Thematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke in chronologischer Folge'', Kassel 1978. * with Walther Dürr: ''Reclams Musikführer Franz Schubert'', Stuttgart 1991. * ''Metzler Musik Chronik vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart'', Stuttgart and Weimar 1993, 2nd, expanded edition 2005.. * ''Über Musik als Wirklichkeit. Ausgewählte Aufsätze und Vorträge'', edited by Jörg Büchler, Wilhelmshaven 2019 (Taschenbücher zur Musikwissenschaft Bd. 171).

Editions

* ''Franz Schubert. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke'', published by the Internationalen Schubert-Gesellschaft: ** together with Christa Landon: Bd. V/1: ''Sinfonien Nr. 1-3'', Kassel 1967. ** Bd. VI/1: ''Oktette und Nonett'', Kassel 1969. ** Bd. VI/7: ''Werke für Klavier und mehrere Instrumente'', Kassel 1975. ** together with Douglas Woodfull-Harris: ''Sinfonien Nr. 4-6'', Kassel 1999.

Articles

* '' Mozarts Duett "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen". Periodisch-metrische Fragen'', in ''Festschrift Walter Gerstenberg zum 60. Geburtstag'', edited by

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and Andreas Holschneider, Wolfenbüttel und Zürich 1964, * ''Volksmusik und Trivialmusik. Bemerkungen eines Historikers zu ihrer Trennung'', in ''Die Musikforschung'' 26 (1973), . * ''Zur Genesis der Gattung Lied, wie sie Franz Schubert definiert hat'', in ''Muzikološki zbornik'' 11 (1975), . * ''Über Musik als Wirklichkeit'', in ''Festschrift Georg von Dadelsen zum 60. Geburtstag'', edited by Thomas Kohlhase and Volker Scherliess, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1978, . * ''Die Musikkultur des Mittelmeerbeckens und die abendländische Polyphonie'', in ''Report of the Twelfth Congress (IGMW) Berkeley 1977'', Kassel 1981, . * ''Goethes und Schuberts Erlkönig'', in ''Festschrift Rudolf Bockholdt zum 60. Geburtstag'', edited by Norbert Dubowy and Sären Meyer-Eller, Pfaffenhofen 1990, . * ''Zum Rhythmus der Wiener Klassiker'', in ''Internationaler Musikwissenschaftlicher Kongreß zum Mozartjahr 1991 Baden-Wien. Bericht'', vol. 1, edited by Ingrid Fuchs,

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1993, . * ''Überlegungen zur Instrumentalmusik und zur instrumentalen Komposition in der älteren abendländischen Musikgeschichte'', in Traditionen – Neuansätze. Für Anna Amalie Abert (1906-1996)'', edited by Hortschansky, Tutzing 1997, .

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Feil, Arnold German publishers (people) 20th-century German musicologists Schubert scholars Members of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Academic staff of the University of Tübingen Academic staff of the University of Stuttgart 1925 births 2019 deaths Writers from Mannheim