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Karl Gustav Fellerer (7 July 1902 – 7 January 1984) 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 m ...
. His works include more than 600 scientific publications on catholic
church music
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History
Early Christian music
The on ...
,
Italian music The term ''Italian music'' is ambiguous and may refer to several topics:
*The music of Italy
*The folk, popular, classical (especially opera) musics of Italy and the Italian people
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from 1600 to the beginning of the 20th century, and music history of the 19th century. He wrote
monographs on
Palestrina
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,
Handel,
Mozart, and
Max Bruch
Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a prominent staple of the standard ...
and was editor of several musical journals. He published the ''Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch'' (Church Music
Almanac
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) for 46 years, from 1930 until 1976. Fellerer was president of several musicology societies, including 16 years of the
Joseph Haas
Joseph Haas (19 March 1879 – 30 March 1960) was a German late romantic composer and music teacher.
Biography
He was born in Maihingen, near Nördlingen to teacher Alban Haas from his second marriage, being half-brother to the theologian a ...
Society.
Career
Fellerer was born on 7 July 1902 in
Freising
Freising () is a university town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the Freising ''Landkreis'' (district), with a population of about 50,000.
Location
Freising is the oldest town between Regensburg and Bolzano, and is located on the ...
, Bavaria. He studied in
Regensburg, then in
Munich
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, where Joseph Haas was among his teachers, and in Berlin where in 1925 he gained a
Ph.D.
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Following his
habilitation, he then taught as
Privatdozent at the
University of Münster
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With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of stud ...
and the
University of Fribourg
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The roots of the university can be traced back to 1580, when the notable Jesuit Peter Canisi ...
where he gained full
professor
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ship in 1934. In 1939, he received a call to the
University of Cologne
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and became the director of its (Institute of Musicology).
From 1956 until 1958, Fellerer was
dean
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Titles
* ...
of the
Faculty of
Philosophy; from 1967 until 1968 he was the university's
rector
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*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
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. He became
professor emeritus
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in 1970.
Aged 81, he died on 7 January 1984 in
München Hauptbahnhof when he returned from a meeting on church music in
Innsbruck.
Honours
Fellerer was member of several academies of science, including those in London, Brussels, and Copenhagen. He was awarded the
Mozart Medal, the Great Cross of the
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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, the Austrian
Cross of Honour for Science and Art (in 1977)
and the Commander's Cross of the Papal
Order of St. Gregory the Great
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The order is one of ...
. He was honoured with two
Festschrift
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en, one on each of his 60th and 70th birthdays.
References
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1902 births
1984 deaths
People from Freising
Mozart scholars
Academic staff of the University of Cologne
Rectors of the University of Cologne
Academic journal editors
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
Knights Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great
20th-century German historians
20th-century Austrian composers
20th-century Austrian male musicians
20th-century German musicologists
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy