Eduard Krüger (9 December 1807 – 8 November 1885) was a German
musicologist
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, composer and
philologist
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.
Life
Born in
Lüneburg
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, Krüger received his doctorate from the
University of Göttingen
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in 1830 and then continued his studies in Berlin. In 1832 he obtained a position as assistant teacher at the Gymnasium in
Emden
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, where he soon became headmaster, interrupted by a brief appointment at the Alte Gymnasium in Göttingen.
From 1838 he corresponded with
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...
, who appreciated him as a skilful writer and won him as a collaborator for his ''
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
The New Journal of Music (, and abbreviated to NZM) is a music magazine, co-founded in Leipzig by Robert Schumann, his teacher and future father-in law Friedrich Wieck, Julius Knorr and his close friend Ludwig Schuncke. Its first issue appe ...
''. The correspondence ended abruptly after Krüger criticised Schumann's opera ''
Genoveva
''Genoveva'', Op. 81, is an opera in four acts by Robert Schumann in the genre of German Romanticism with a libretto by Robert Reinick and the composer. The only opera Schumann ever wrote, it received its first performance on 25 June 1850 at ...
'' 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 also wrote articles for the ''
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
The New Journal of Music (, and abbreviated to NZM) is a music magazine, co-founded in Leipzig by Robert Schumann, his teacher and future father-in law Friedrich Wieck, Julius Knorr and his close friend Ludwig Schuncke. Its first issue appe ...
''.
From 1852 to 1859, Krüger was chief inspector of education for the whole of
East Frisia
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in
Aurich
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.
Biography
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In 1859, he found employment as an "assistant worker" at the library of the University of Göttingen
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and eventually received a professorship there in 1862, teaching "Theory and History of Music". His most important student was Hugo Riemann
Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann (18 July 1849 – 10 July 1919) was a German musicologist and composer who was among the founders of modern musicology. The leading European music scholar of his time, he was active and influential as both a mus ...
, who received his doctorate from him in 1873. Here he also began in 1876, in collaboration with his colleague and the pastor , the publication of the journal ''Siona. Monatschrift für Liturgie und Kirchenmusik''.
Work
* ''De Musicis graecorum organis circa Pindari tempora Florentibus'', Diss. phil. Göttingen 1830
* ''Grundriß der Metrik antiker und moderner Sprachen'', Emden 1838
* ''Beiträge für Leben und Wissenschaft der Tonkunst'', Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel
Breitkopf & Härtel () is a German Music publisher, music publishing house. Founded in 1719 in Leipzig by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, it is the world's oldest music publisher.
Overview
The catalogue contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works ...
1847
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* ''System der Tonkunst'', Leipzig 1866
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* ''Musikalische Psychologie nach Anleitung von Gervinus’ Buch 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, H ...
und Shakespeare
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'', Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1868
* ''Musikalische Briefe aus der neuesten Zeit'', Münster 1870
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Further reading
* 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 p ...
, ''E. Krüger’s Musikalische Briefe aus der neuesten Zeit'', in: ''Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung'', Jg. 5 (1870), pp. 4f.
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* Arthur Prüfer (ed.), ''Briefwechsel zwischen Carl von Winterfeld and Eduard Krüger'', Leipzig: Seemann 1898 (with portrait)
* Uwe Martin, ''Ein unbekanntes Schumann-Autograph aus dem Nachlaß E. Krügers'', in ''Die Musikforschung'', Jg. 12 (1959),
* Kurt Hoppenrath, ''E. Krüger (1807–1885). Leben und Wirken eines Musikgelehrten Schumannscher Tradition und Neudeutscher Schule'', Diss. phil. Göttingen 1964 (Maschr.)
* Wolfgang Boetticher, ''Eduard Krüger als Professor der Musikgeschichte'', in ''Musikwissenschaft und Musikpflege an der Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen'', published by 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 anci ...
, Göttingen 1987,
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* Martin Tielke, ''Eduard Krüger als Wegbereiter der Bach- und Händelrenaissance'', in ''Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst und vaterländische Altertümer zu Emden'', Jg. 72 (1992), (with portrait)
References
External links
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19th-century German musicologists
Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
1807 births
1885 deaths
People from Lüneburg