Werner Danckert (22 June 1900 – 5 March 1970) was a German folk song researcher.
Life
Born in
Erfurt
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, Danckert trained as a concert pianist after graduating from high school in 1917. He studied
musicology with the subsidiary subjects
philosophy and
physics
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. In 1923 he received his doctorate in
Erlangen
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(''summa cum laude''); the
habilitation followed at the
University of Jena
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The un ...
in 1926.
In 1937 Danckert became a member of the
NSDAP
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported t ...
and professor at the
Musikhochschule Weimar.
Ernst Klee
Ernst Klee (15 March 1942, Frankfurt – 18 May 2013, Frankfurt) was a German journalist and author. As a writer on Germany's history, he was best known for his exposure and documentation of medical crimes in Nazi Germany, much of which was concer ...
: ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Who was what before and after 1945.'' S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, , . Danckert became a member of the ''Hauptstelle Musik'' at the
Amt Rosenberg. At the
Reichsmusiktage in Düsseldorf (1938). Danckert gave a lecture on ''Volkstum, Stammesart, Rasse im Lichte der Volkstumsforschung''.
In 1939 he published the book ''Die ältesten Spuren germanischer Volksmusik''.
In 1943 he was given a chair in Graz and an apl. professorship in Berlin as successor of .
After the end of the Second World War he did not return to any university,
but published further books on folk music and other musical topics.
Danckert died in
Krefeld
Krefeld ( , ; li, Krieëvel ), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, i ...
at age 69.
Publications
* ''Geschichte der Gigue'', Leipzig 1924
* ''Ursymbole melodischer Gestaltung'', Kassel 1932
* ''Beiträge zur Bachkritik'', Kassel 1934
* ''Grundriss der Volksliedkunde'', Berlin 1939
* ''Das Europäische Volkslied'', Berlin 1939, dto, 2. improved and extended edition Bonn 1970
* ''Claude Debussy'', Berlin 1950
* ''Goethe, der mystische Urgrund seiner Weltschau'', Berlin 1951
* ''Offenes und geschlossenes Leben, zwei Daseinsaspekte in Goethes Weltschau'', Bonn 1963
* ''Unehrliche Leute. Die verfemten Berufe'', Bern and Munich 1963
* ''Das Volkslied im Abendland'', Bern and Munich 1960
* ''Tonreich und Symbolzahl in Hochkulturen und Primitivenwelt'', Bonn 1966
* ''Symbol, Metapher und Allegorie im Lied der Völker'', four volumes, issued from the estate of Hannelore Vogel, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1976–78
* ''Musik und Weltbild'',
''Musik und Weltbild : Morphologie der abendländischen Musik''
on WorldCat
Discontinued volumes
* ''Bach und Händel''
* ''Musik und Musikstile Polynesiens''
* ''Studien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte ostasiatischer Musik''
* ''Musik im indopazifischen Raum''
* ''Musikwissenschaft und Kulturkreislehre''
References
External links
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20th-century German musicologists
Nazi Party members
1900 births
1970 deaths
Writers from Erfurt