Franz Theodor Magnus Böhme (11 March 1827 in Willerstedt – 18 October 1898 in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

) was a German academic,

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 m ...

, composer,

folksong Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has be ...

collector and writer on music history and folksong.

Biography

The son of a farmer, Böhme became a primary school teacher in Thuringia. He then studied at the Conservatory in Leipzig under Moritz Hauptmann and

Julius Rietz August Wilhelm Julius Rietz (28 December 1812 – 12 September 1877) was a German composer, conductor, cellist, and teacher. His students included Woldemar Bargiel, Salomon Jadassohn, Arthur O'Leary, and (by far the most celebrated) Sir Arthur ...

. From 1859 to 1878 he was a choirmaster and music teacher in Dresden, before teaching counterpoint and history of music at the

Hoch Conservatory Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium – Musikakademie was founded in Frankfurt am Main on 22 September 1878. Through the generosity of Frankfurter Joseph Hoch, who bequeathed the Conservatory one million German gold marks in his testament, a school for ...

in Frankfurt am Main from 1878 to 1885. After 1885 he returned as a professor to Dresden, where he continued to teach. Inspired by the example of

Ludwig Uhland Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet, philologist and literary historian. Biography He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest i ...

and

Ludwig Erk Ludwig Christian Erk (6 January 1807, Wetzlar Wetzlar () is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany. It is the twelfth largest city in Hesse with currently 55,371 inhabitants at the beginning of 2019 (including second homes). As an important ...

, he was an avid collector and publisher of folk tunes, and contributed greatly to the establishment of research into German folk music. Böhme died in 1898 in Dresden, and was buried at the Trinitatisfriedhof (Holy Trinity cemetery). Having died in the former DDR, a great part of his legacy, in particular his manuscripts on the history of dance and folk songs (many of which remain unpublished to this day) passed to the former Institute for folk music research in Weimar. These are now preserved in the University archive/Thuringian state music archive at Weimar (shelf-mark FMB). Another part of his legacy, about 16000 collected songs, as well as his own compositions (shelf-marks Mus.1-W-26, Mus.1-W-27 / Mscr.Dresd.App.2345) are to be found today in the state library of Saxony and state and university library of Dresden. A street is named after him in his birthplace, Willerstedt.

Selected works

Collections

*''Altdeutsches Liederbuch. Volkslieder der Deutschen nach Wort und Weise aus dem 12. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert'', 1877 (). *'' Deutscher Liederhort'', Neubearbeitung und Fortsetzung des Werkes von Ludwig Erk, 3 Bände, 1893/94 *''Volksthümliche Lieder der Deutschen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert'', 1895 (). *''Deutsches Kinderlied und Kinderspiel'', 2 Bände, 1870/97 ().

Books

*''Geschichte des Oratoriums'', 1861 *''Geschichte des Tanzes in Deutschland'', 1886

Bibliography (in German)

* Brockhaus, ''

Riemann Musiklexikon The Riemann Musiklexikon (RML), is a music encyclopedia founded in 1882 by Hugo Riemann. The 13th edition appeared in 2012. History The Riemann Musiklexikon is the last undertaking of an individual to write a comprehensive encyclopedia in the f ...

'' Vol. 1 (1998) , * Kurt Thomas: ''Bericht über einen Teilnachlaß von Franz Magnus Böhme im Institut für Volksmusikforschung Weimar'', Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung 38 (1993), S. 13–26. * Otto Holzapfel, together with Brigitte Emmrich and Heike Müns: ''Sammlung Franz Magnus Böhme in der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek in Dresden'', Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung 38 (1993), pp. 27–49 ur Wissenschaftsgeschichte und dem Entstehen des Erk-Böhme, ''Deutscher Liederhort'', 1893/94, und dem Nachlass Böhmes *

Horst Seeger Horst Seeger (6 November 1926 – 2 January 1999), pseudonyme ''Horst Schell'', was a German musicologist, music critic, dramaturg, librettist and opera director. Leben Born in Erkner, Seeger studied musicology at the Humboldt University of Ber ...

: ''Musiklexikon Personen A–Z'' / Deutscher Verlag für Musik

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 ...

(1981), Seite 102 ff. * E. Stockmann: ''Zum Nachlass Franz Magnus Böhmes'', Deutsches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde VIII, 1962 * *

External links

* * http://saebi.isgv.de/gnd/116220945

References

German music historians German folk-song collectors Academic staff of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts 19th-century German composers 1827 births 1898 deaths People from Weimarer Land Writers about music 19th-century German musicologists {{Germany-music-bio-stub