Hans Hoffmann (26 January 1902 – 26 August 1949) was a German lyrical tenor,

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 ...

and municipal music director in Bielefeld.

Life

Born in

Prudnik Prudnik (, szl, Prudnik, Prōmnik, german: Neustadt in Oberschlesien, Neustadt an der Prudnik, la, Prudnicium) is a town in southern Poland, located in the southern part of Opole Voivodeship near the border with the Czech Republic. It is the ...

, Hoffmann first studied musicology at the universities of Breslau,

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 ...

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

and

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland ...

(with

Fritz Stein Friedrich Wilhelm Stein (17 December 1879 – 14 November 1961) was a German theologian, conductor, musicologist and church musician. He found in an archive in Jena the score of the so-called '' Jena Symphony'', which he published as possibly a wo ...

) and was awarded a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

''summa cum laude'' in Kiel on 17 May 1927. He also studied violin and singing (in Berlin with

Baptist Hoffmann Johann Baptist Hoffmann (9 July 18635 July 1937) was a German operatic baritone and voice teacher. A long-term member of the Staatsoper Berlin, Berlin Court Opera, he performed leading roles in Europe, such as Verdi's Rigoletto and Wagner's Dut ...

). From 1928, he made a name for himself as a concert singer, in oratorios and passions, but also as an art singer. At the

Wiener Musikverein The ( or ; ), commonly shortened to , is a concert hall in Vienna, Austria, which is located in the Innere Stadt district. The building opened in 1870 and is the home of the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra. The acoustics of the building's 'Great ...

in 1940 he sang the world premiere of Franz Schmidt cantata ' in the tenor part. Parallel to his singing career, Hoffmann also worked as a musicologist ( lecturer in Kiel and professor at the

University of Halle Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university in ...

). Following his move to Bielefeld, he worked there as a choirmaster and Kapellmeister at the

Theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

and finally as municipal music director. Hoffmann died in

Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Detmold and the ...

at the age of 47.

Publications

* ''Die norddeutsche Triosonate des Kreises um

Johann Gottlieb Graun Johann Gottlieb Graun (1702/1703 – 28 October 1771) was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist, born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was a singer and also a composer, and is the better known of the two. Johann Gottlieb ...

and

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and sec ...

''. ( Dissertation). Kiel, Delivered by W. G. Mühlau 1927, 188 p. * ''Heinrich Schütz und Johann Sebastian Bach: 2 Tonsprachen und ihre Bedeutung für die Aufführungspraxis'', Kassel : Bärenreiter-Verlag

940 Year 940 ( CMXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * The tribe of the Polans begins the construction of the following fortified settlements (Gi ...

79 . * ''Vom Wesen der zeitgenössischen Kirchenmusik''.''Vom Wesen der zeitgenössischen Kirchenmusik''
on WorldCat Kassel Basel : Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1949, 111 .

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoffmann, Hans German tenors 20th-century German musicologists 1902 births 1949 deaths People from Prudnik 20th-century German male singers Musicians from Bielefeld

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