Hans-Heinz Dräger (6 December 1909 – 9 November 1968), complete name Hans-Heinz Gerhard Kurt Dräger, was a German-American

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 ...

. He died in November 1968 at age 58.

Life and career

Born in Stralsund, Dräger attended the secondary school in Stralsund from 1920 to 1931. From 1931 to 1937, he studied musicology at the

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

with

Friedrich Blume Friedrich Blume (5 January 1893, in Schlüchtern, Hesse-Nassau – 22 November 1975, in Schlüchtern) was professor of musicology at the University of Kiel from 1938 to 1958. He was a student in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig, and taught in the las ...

Curt Sachs Curt Sachs (; 29 June 1881 – 5 February 1959) was a German musicologist. He was one of the founders of modern organology (the study of musical instruments). Among his contributions was the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which he created with Er ...

Arnold Schering Arnold Schering (2 April 1877 in Breslau, German Empire – 7 March 1941 in Berlin) was a German musicologist. He grew up in Dresden as the son of an art publisher. He learned violin at the from which he graduated in 1896. Thereafter he studied ...

Georg Schünemann Georg Schünemann (13 March 1884 – 2 January 1945) was a German musicologist. Life Born in Berlin, Schünemann, the son of a rector, was awarded a doctorate after studying music in 1907 with his dissertation on the ''history of conducting''. ...

and

Erich Schumann Erich Schumann (5 January 1898 – 25 April 1985) was a German physicist who specialized in acoustics and explosives, and had a penchant for music. He was a general officer in the army and a professor at the University of Berlin and the Technic ...

. In addition, he studied art history with and , philosophy with

Max Dessoir Maximilian Dessoir (8 February 1867 – 19 July 1947) was a German philosopher, psychologist and theorist of aesthetics. Career Dessoir was born in Berlin, into a German Jewish family, his parents being Ludwig Dessoir (1810-1874), "Germany's ...

and

Nicolai Hartmann Paul Nicolai Hartmann (; 20 February 1882 – 9 October 1950) was a Baltic German philosopher. He is regarded as a key representative of critical realism and as one of the most important twentieth-century metaphysicians. Biography Hartmann was ...

and German literature with Herrmann. After obtaining his doctorate in 1937, he was offered a post as an assistant at the

State Institute for Music Research The State Institute for Music Research (german: Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung or ''SIMPK'') is a musicological research facility in Berlin, Germany for the study of Musical Instruments, Music History, Music Theory and Music technology. ...

. In 1938, he became assistant to the director of the Berlin Musical Instrument Museum. In 1939, he was appointed acting director of the museum. After the Second World War, he went to the University of Kiel where he was habilitated in 1946. In 1947, he was appointed professor at the University of Greifswald, after which he taught at the

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until 1949. Afterwards he was professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin until 1953. Then he left the

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and was professor at the

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until 1961. In 1955, he was employed by RIAS as a music specialist and expert in musicology. From September 1955 to May 1956, he was a visiting professor at Stanford University as part of the

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. In 1961, he accepted a visiting professorship at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...

. There he took over the chair for systematic musicology in 1963. In 1966, Draeger received the Citizenship of the United States. He was chairman of the Texan section of the American Musicological Society. Draeger's main subject was description and musical instrument classification. For this purpose, he developed a set of tables in his habilitation thesis, in which all musical instruments were to be sorted according to a constant sequence of questions. Dräger died in

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at age 58.

Work

* ''Die Entwicklung des Streichbogens und seine Anwendung in Europa.'' (Promotion) Bärenreiter, Kassel 1937 * Article ''Amati, Blasinstrumentenbau, Bogen, Buhle, Casals, Dräger, Drehleier, Dynamik, Fidel, Gagliano Familie, Gasparo da Salò, Geige, Familie Grancino, Groblicz, Hackbrett, Instrumentenkunde, Janko, Kontrabaß, Mersenne, Monochord, Musette, Musik-Ästhetik A, Psalterium A'' and ''Tourte'' in

(ed.): ''

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik (MGG)'' is one of the world's most comprehensive encyclopedias of music history and musicology, on account of its scope, content, wealth of research areas, and reference t ...

''. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1949–1966 * ''Prinzip einer Systematik der Musikinstrumente.''''Prinzip einer Systematik der Musikinstrumente.''
on WorldCat Bärenreiter, Kassel 1948

Literature

* ''Dräger, Hans-Heinz''. In ''

Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie The ''Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie'' (''DBE'') is a biographical dictionary published by Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (from the third to fourth volume), the first edition of which was published from 1995 to 2003 in 13 volumes by K. ...

.'' K. G. Saur, Berlin, Boston 2011. (

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9 August 2015). * Michael S. Morawski: ''Draeger, Hans-Heinz.'' In Laurie E. Jasinski (ed.): ''Handbook of Texas Music.'' Texas A&M University Press, 2012, ,
Google Books
. * University of Texas (Publ.): ''In memoriam Hans-Heinz Draeger.'' Austin 1968,
Online
PDF).

References

External links

Hans-Heinz Dräger
on Texas State Historical Association {{DEFAULTSORT:Drager, Hans-Heinz Musicologists from Berlin 20th-century German musicologists Academic staff of the University of Greifswald Academic staff of the University of Rostock University of Texas at Austin faculty Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin 1909 births 1968 deaths People from Stralsund German emigrants to the United States