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Eduard Krüger (music Historian)
Eduard Krüger (9 December 1807 – 8 November 1885) was a German musicologist, composer and philologist. Life Born in Lüneburg, Krüger received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1830 and then continued his studies in Berlin. In 1832 he obtained a position as assistant teacher at the Gymnasium in Emden, where he soon became headmaster, interrupted by a brief appointment at the Alte Gymnasium in Göttingen. From 1838 he corresponded with Robert Schumann, who appreciated him as a skilful writer and won him as a collaborator for his ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik''. The correspondence ended abruptly after Krüger criticised Schumann's opera ''Genoveva'' in 1851. In the public dispute between Oswald Lorenz, pseudonym Hans Grobgedakt, on the subject of "organ tone and organ playing" with the main question of "pliability of the organ tone" or of a "need for essential changes in the organ tone"", Krüger took sides with Lorenz, whom he did not know personally but who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicologist
Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, formal sciences and Computational musicology, computer science. Musicology is traditionally divided into three branches: music history, systematic musicology, and ethnomusicology. Historical musicologists study the history of musical traditions, the origins of works, and the biographies of composers. Ethnomusicologists draw from anthropology (particularly field research) to understand how and why people make music. Systematic musicology includes music theory, aesthetics, Music education, pedagogy, musical acoustics, the science and technology of Organology, musical instruments, and the musical implications of physiology, psychology, sociology, philosophy and computing. Cognitive musicology is the set of phenomena surrounding the cognitive m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Gottfried Gervinus
Georg Gottfried Gervinus (20 May 1805 – 18 March 1871) was a German literary and political historian. Biography Gervinus was born in Darmstadt. He was educated at the gymnasium of the town, and intended for a commercial career, but in 1825 he became a student of the university of Giessen. In 1826 he went to Heidelberg, where he attended the lectures of the historian Schlosser, who became henceforth his guide and his model. In 1828 he was appointed teacher at a private school at Frankfort-on-Main, and in 1830 ''Privatdozent'' at Heidelberg. In this period he became a friend of the young historian Karl von Hegel (the son of the Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) and of the jurist Georg Beseler. A volume of his collected ''Historische Schriften'' procured him the appointment of professor extraordinarius; while the first volume of his ''Geschichte der poetischen Nationallitteratur der Deutschen'' (History of the poetical national literature of the Germans; 1835–1842, 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1807 Births
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Academic Staff Of The University Of Göttingen
An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece. The Royal Spanish Academy defines academy as scientific, literary or artistic society established with public authority and as a teaching establishment, public or private, of a professional, artistic, technical or simply practical nature. Etymology The word comes from the ''Academy'' in ancient Greece, which derives from the Athenian hero, '' Akademos''. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe". In these gardens, the philosopher Plato conversed with followers. Plato developed hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century German Musicologists
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Staehelin
Martin Staehelin (born 25 September 1937) is a Swiss musicologist and university lecturer. Life Born in Basel, Staehelin first studied ancient languages, history, school music and flute. In 1967, he received his doctorate in musicology and ancient languages as minor subjects. After his Zurich habilitation on the composer Heinrich Isaac, Staehelin first became director of the Beethoven Archive and Beethoven House in Bonn before being appointed professor of musicology at the University of Göttingen in 1983. In 2013, he gave the laudation for the award of the Lichtenberg Medal to Joshua Rifkin. Other roles * Since 1987: Member of the philological-historical class of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities * Since 1993: Honorary director of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen * Since 1993: Member of the Academia Europaea in London * Since 1998: Member of the advisory board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin Publications * ''Die mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Boetticher
Wolfgang Boetticher (19 August 1914 – 7 April 2002) was a German musicologist and longtime lecturer at the University of Göttingen. Born in Bad Ems, Boetticher was arranger and editor of numerous works by the composer Robert Schumann, especially for the publishing house G. Henle in Munich.Ernst Klee: ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945.'' S. Fischer, Frankfurt, 2007, . Life Boetticher, son of a chemist in the civil service, studied musicology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin after a pianistic education with Arnold Schering, Georg Schünemann, Curt Sachs, Hans Joachim Moser, Friedrich Blume and Helmuth Osthoff.Wolfgang Boetticher: ''Boetticher, Wolfgang.'' In ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart vol. 02'', Bärenreiter-Verlag 1952, , CD-Rom edition p. 8638. Already during his studies he was active in the National Socialist German Students' League since 1934. In the Reichsstudentenführung he worked since 1937 in the music department. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Von Winterfeld
Carl Georg Vivigens von WinterfeldBernhard Stockmann MGG 2016 (28 January 1784 – 19 February 1852) was a German lawyer and musicologist. He studied music from the 16th to 18th centuries, and was instrumental in reviving it, especially the music by Heinrich Schütz. Life Winterfeld was born in Berlin. His parents were Karl Friedrich Gotthilf von Winterfeldt (17 May 1757 - 14 September 1824) and his wife Sophie Elisabeth Helene Wilhelmine von Köhler (28 March 1754 – 13 April 1821). Winterfeld studied law at the University of Halle from 1803, and was appointed as a judge in Breslau in 1816. After his return to Berlin in 1832, he was appointed Obertribunalrat, and in 1839 became an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. Winterfeld was a founding member of the Bach-Gesellschaft and since 1835 a member of the Gesetzlose Gesellschaft zu Berlin. Winterfeld is credited with the rediscovery of Heinrich Schütz, publishing works by Schütz in his work about Gabrieli in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Prüfer
Hermann Bernhard Arthur Prüfer (7 July 1860, Leipzig – 3 June 1944, Würzburg) was a German musicologist. He was a son of a businessman and later studied musicology in Leipzig and Berlin, especially under Philipp Spitta. Prüfer was the musicology instructor for the Polish composer and conductor, :pl:Mateusz Gliński, Mateusz Gliński, during his teachings the Leipzig University, Leipzig Conservatory. As a musicologist, his noticeable contribution was the 1909 publication, the Work of Bayreuth (''Das Werk von Bayreuth''), that contains thoughts and ideas through the musical compositions by Richard Wagner. Bibliography * ''Untersuchungen über den ausserkirchlichen Kunstgesang in den evangelischen Schulen des 16. Jahrhunderts.'' Dissertation Leipzig 1890. * ''Johann Hermann Schein'', 1895 (Reprint 1989, ISBN 3-7618-0936-0) * ''Johann Hermann Schein und das weltliche Lied des 17. Jahrhunderts'', 1903 * ''Das Werk von Bayreuth'' (Sammlung von Vorträgen über die Bayreuther Festsp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Chrysander
Karl Franz Friedrich Chrysander (8 July 1826 – 3 September 1901) was a German music historian, critic and publisher, whose edition of the works of George Frideric Handel and authoritative writings on many other composers established him as a pioneer of 19th-century musicology. Biography Born at Lübtheen, in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Chrysander was the son of a miller. He earned a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Rostock in 1853. He then focused his studies on music, and in an obituary for Chrysander in October 1901, the '' Musical Times'' said of him that :"From the beginning he assumed the role of an historian in rigorously defending the right and claims of musical masterpieces of a distant past to a legitimate and faithful reproduction, i.e., without modernising, and without instrumental or vocal additions." Chrysander is also credited with rediscovering the autograph score of Johann Sebastian Bach's '' Mass in B Minor,'' which he then sold to the Royal Libra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel ( ; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti. Born in Halle, Germany, Handel spent his early life in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition and by composers of the Italian Baroque. In turn, Handel's music forms one of the peaks of the "high baroque" style, bringing Italian opera to its highest development, creating the genres of English oratorio and organ concerto, and introducing a new style into English church music. He is consistently recognized as one of the greatest composers of his age. Handel started three commercial opera companies to supply the English nobility with Italian opera. In 1737, he had a physical breakdown, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
