Wilibald Nagel
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Wilibald Nagel (also ''Willibald Nagel'', (12 January 1863 – 17 October 1929) 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 mu ...
and
music critic ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of mus ...
.


Life and career

Born in
Mülheim an der Ruhr Mülheim, officially Mülheim an der Ruhr () and also described as ''"City on the River"'', is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen, Oberhausen and Ratingen. It is home to many compan ...
Nagel, son of the
Lieder In Western classical music tradition, (, plural ; , plural , ) is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music. The term is used for any kind of song in contemporary German, but among English and French sp ...
and oratorio singer Siegfried Nagel (d. 1874), studied German studies and musicology with
Philipp Spitta Julius August Philipp Spitta (27 December 1841 – 13 April 1894) was a German music historian and musicologist best known for his 1873 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach. Life He was born in , near Hoya, and his father, also called Phil ...
and
Heinrich Bellermann Johann Gottfried Heinrich Bellermann (10 March 1832 – 10 April 1903) was a German music theorist. He was the author of ''Der Contrapunkt'' ("Counterpoint"), 1862, (Berlin, Verlag von Julius Springer—2nd ed., 1877; 3rd ed., 1887; 4th ed., ...
at the
Humboldt University of 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 ...
. In 1888 he
habilitated Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...
and accepted a position at the
University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...
for musicology and taught there as a
lecturer Lecturer is an List of academic ranks, academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. T ...
at the faculty of philosophy until 1894. After that he lived in England for study purposes until 1896 and after his return to Germany he worked as a music writer in . In 1898 Nagel was appointed as a lecturer in musicology at the
Technical University Darmstadt Technical may refer to: * Technical (vehicle), an improvised fighting vehicle * Technical analysis, a discipline for forecasting the future direction of prices through the study of past market data * Technical drawing, showing how something is co ...
, in 1905 he was appointed professor. at the there he gave piano lessons and directed the Academic Singing Association. From 1913 to 1917 he lived as a writer in Zurich. From 1917 to 1921 Nagel was editor and editor of the bi-monthly '' Neue Musik-Zeitung''. In 1921 he became teacher for piano,
music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (ke ...
and history at the Württembergische Hochschule für Musik and took over the music department at the ''
Süddeutsche Zeitung The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat. History ...
''. Nagel became known among other things through his co-authorship of the three-volume work ''General History of Music'' by Richard Batka. His research on Mozart is also acknowledged in Karl Storck's ''Mozart - His Life and Work'' (1908). His treatises on ''Die Nürnberger Musikgesellschaft'' (1588-1629) are quoted in several subsequent music-historical works. His
nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...
-
reactionary In political science, a reactionary or a reactionist is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the ''status quo ante'', the previous political state of society, which that person believes possessed positive characteristics abse ...
attitude and his aesthetic politicization of the term
Worldview A worldview or world-view or ''Weltanschauung'' is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and point of view. A worldview can include natural p ...
as a journalist is evident, among other things, in his position on the Pfitzner-Bekker controversy to "musical impotence" and in articles like ''Der Futurismus – eine undeutsche Erscheinung'', in which he resorts to polemical expressions such as "mindless ridiculousness" and turns against the composers of
New Music New music may refer to: Musical styles and movements Pre-20th century * Ars nova, musical style in 14th-century France and the Low Countries * '' Le nuove musiche'', collection of monody by Giulio Caccini * New German School, music style in late 1 ...
- among others
Ferruccio Busoni Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary ...
,
Arnold Schönberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...
,
Josef Matthias Hauer Josef Matthias Hauer (March 19, 1883 – September 22, 1959) was an Austrian composer and music theorist. He is best known for developing, independent of and a year or two before Arnold Schoenberg, a method for composing with all 12 notes of th ...
. Nagel was a member of the Berlin
masonic lodge A Masonic lodge, often termed a private lodge or constituent lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry. It is also commonly used as a term for a building in which such a unit meets. Every new lodge must be warranted or chartered ...
since 1897 ''Friedrich Wilhelm zur Morgenröthe''. Nagel died in Stuttgart at age 66.


Publications

*''Die deutsche Idylle im 18. Jahrhundert.'' A. Stutz, Wädensweil o. J. (1887). *''Die neueren dramatisch-musikalischen Bearbeitungen der Genovefa-Legende. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Oper.'' Habilitations text at the University of Zürich. Albert Unflad, Zürich/Leipzig 1888. *''Johannes Brahms als Nachfolger Beethoven's.'' Gebr. Hug, Leipzig 1892. *''Annalen der englischen Hofmusik von der Zeit Heinrichs VIII. bis zum Tode Karls I. (1509–1649).'' Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1894. *''Geschichte der Musik in England, I.'' Trübner, Strassburg 1894–97. *''Die Entwickelung der Musik in Frankreich und England.'' Habilitationsschrift an der Technische Hochschule zu Darmstadt. Reuther & Reichard, Berlin 1898. *''Goethe und Beethoven.'' Lecture, held in the assembly hall of the Grand Ducal Technical University in Darmstadt on the importance of the Goethe Monument. Beyer, Langensalza 1902. *''Beethovens „Heiligenstädter Testament“.'' In ''Die Musik.'' (1901/1902), Heft 12 = 1. Beethoven-Heft, . *''Goethe und Mozart.'' Vortrag. Beyer, Langensalza 1904. *''Gluck und Mozart.'' Vortrag. Beyer, Langensalza 1905. *''Die Musik im täglichen Leben. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der musikalischen Kultur unserer Tage.'' Beyer, Langensalza 1907. *''Studien zur Geschichte der Meistersänger.'' Beyer & Söhne, Langensalza 1909. Musikalisches Magazin issue 27. *''Beethoven und seine Klaviersonaten.'' 2 volumes. Beyer & Söhne, Langensalza 1903–1905. (2. erw. Publisher: Beyer & Söhne, Langensalza 1923/24) *''Kleine Mitteilungen zur Musikgeschichte aus Augsburger Akten.'' In ''Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft.'' Vol. 9. (1907–1908) . *''Zur Lebensgeschichte August Eberhard Müllers.'' In ''Die Musik.'' 9, issue 4, 1909/10, . *''Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik.'' 3 volumes. With Richard Batka. Grüninger, Stuttgart 1909–1915. *''Geschichte der Musik im Umriß.'' With .
Breitkopf & Härtel Breitkopf & Härtel is the world's oldest music publishing house. The firm was founded in 1719 in Leipzig by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf. The catalogue currently contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works and 15,000 music editions or books on ...
, Leipzig 1910. *''Kleine Beethoveniana.'' In ''Sammelbande der Internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft.'' Volume 12 (1910–1911) . *''
Christoph Graupner Christoph Graupner (13 January 1683 – 10 May 1760) was a German composer and harpsichordist of late Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel. Life Born in Hartmannsdorf ...
als Sinfoniker. Zusammenfassende Bemerkungen (nebst thematischem Kataloge der Sinfonien).'' Beyer, Langensalza 1912. *''Die Musik als Mittel der Volkserziehung. Wesen und Bedeutung der Programm-Musik.'' Vorträge, geh. im Württembergischen Goethe-Bunde zu Stuttgart. Beyer, Langensalza 1912. *''Mozart und die Gegenwart.''''Mozart und die Gegenwart.''
on WorldCat Beyer, Langensalza 1912. *''
Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...
.'' Vortrag, gehalten im Hess. Goethe-Bund in Darmstadt. Beyer, Langensalza 1913. *''Über die Strömungen in unserer Musik. Kritische Randbemerkungen zur modernen Kunst.'' Beyer, Langensalza 1913. *''Über den Begriff des Hässlichen in der Musik. Ein Versuch.'' Beyer, Langensalza 1914. *''Die Klaviersonaten von Joh. Brahms. Techn.-ästhet. Analysen.'' Grüninger, Stuttgart 1915. *''Ferruccio Busoni als Ästhetiker.'' In ''Neue Musik-Zeitung.'' 15, 1917. *''.''
Universal Edition Universal Edition (UE) is a classical music publishing firm. Founded in 1901 in Vienna, they originally intended to provide the core classical works and educational works to the Austrian market (which had until then been dominated by Leipzig-base ...
, Vienna 1919. *''Paul Hindemith ''
Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen ''Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen'' (''Murderer, Hope of Women'') is an opera in one act by Paul Hindemith, written in 1919 on a German libretto by Oskar Kokoschka which he based on his play of 1907. The opera was the first in a triptych of expressi ...
Das Nusch-Nuschi ''Das Nusch-Nuschi'' (''The Nusch-Nuschi''), Op. 20, is an opera in one act by Paul Hindemith, with a German libretto by Franz Blei. Subtitled ''A Play for Burmese Marionettes in One Act'' (Ein Spiel für burmanische Marionetten in einem Akt), i ...
''. Zwei Opern Einakter. Uraufführung im Württ. Landestheater zu Stuttgart am 4. Juni.'' In ''Neue Musik-Zeitung.'' 19, 1921. *''Johannes Brahms.'' J. Engelhorns Nachf., Stuttgart 1923. *''Beethoven Romantiker?'' In ''1. Kongreßbericht. Beethoven-Zentenarfeier Wien, 26. bis 31. März 1927.'' Veranstaltet von Bund und Stadt, unter dem Ehrenschutz des Herrn Bundespräsidenten Dr. Michael Hainisch. Internationaler Musikhistorischer Kongress. Universal-Edition, Vienna 1927.


Literature

*
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 last ...
(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 ...
''. Volume 9, p. 1248f.
Bärenreiter Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it also ...
, Kassel 1961. * Karin Steinbeck:
Nagel, Willibald
'. In '' online''.


References


External links

*
Werke von Wilibald Nagel
im Bibliothekskatalog des
Beethoven House The Beethoven House (German: ''Beethoven-Haus'') in Bonn, Germany, is a memorial site, museum and cultural institution serving various purposes. Founded in 1889 by the Beethoven-Haus association, it studies the life and work of composer Ludwig van ...
Bonn. (retrieved 14 May 2020). {{DEFAULTSORT:Nagel, Wilibald 19th-century German musicologists 20th-century German musicologists German music critics German music historians Academic staff of the University of Zurich German Freemasons 1863 births 1929 deaths People from Mülheim