Carl Dahlhaus

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Carl Dahlhaus (1928–1989)

Carl Dahlhaus (born June 10, 1928 in Hanover , † March 13, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German musicologist .

Life

Dahlhaus first studied law and later musicology at the Universities of Göttingen and Freiburg im Breisgau ; Joachim Kaiser and Rudolf Stephan were among his fellow students in Göttingen . He received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1953 with a thesis on the masses by Josquin des Prés . After working as a dramaturge from 1950 to 1958 at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen under Heinz Hilpert and from 1960 to 1962 as editor of the Stuttgarter Zeitung , he turned to research. From 1962 to 1966 he was clerk for regional musical research at the University of Kiel . There he completed his habilitation with studies on the origin of harmonic tonality . From 1967 he held a chair for music history at the Technical University of Berlin .

In addition to the history of music in the 19th and 20th centuries, his main areas of work were musical aesthetics and music theory . He was the author and editor of numerous, mostly encyclopedic works, such as the New Handbook of Musicology, as well as editor of the Richard Wagner Complete Edition and co-editor of Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater .

Carl Dahlhaus was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1985 . He was a member of the order Pour le mérite for sciences and arts and the German Academy for Language and Poetry . In 1987 he received the Frankfurt Music Prize . Dahlhaus was unable to take up the research grant he was awarded at the Historical College in Munich for the college year 1988/1989 for health reasons.

tomb

He is buried in the Evangelical Churchyard Nikolassee in Berlin.

Fonts

Books

  • Studies of the Josquins des Prés fairs. Göttingen 1953 (Göttingen, Univ., Dissertation of April 22, 1953).
  • Johannes Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 (= masterpieces of music. H. 3, ZDB -ID 1083258-0 ). Fink, Munich 1965.
  • Investigations into the origin of harmonic tonality. Kiel 1966 (Kiel, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1966).
  • Music Aesthetics (= Music Pocket Books. Theoretica. Vol. 8 = Music Pocket Books 255, ZDB -ID 526251-3 ). Gering, Cologne 1967.
  • Arnold Schönberg, Variations for Orchestra, op. 31 (= masterpieces of music. H. 7). Fink, Munich 1968.
  • Analysis and value judgment (= music education. Vol. 8 = Edition Schott 6371). Schott, Mainz 1970, ISBN 3-7957-1707-8 .
  • Richard Wagner's musical dramas. Friedrich, Velber 1971.
  • Wagner's aesthetics. Edition Musica, Bayreuth 1971.
  • Wagner's conception of the musical drama (= working group 100 years of Bayreuth Festival. Vol. 5). Bosse, Regensburg 1971, ISBN 3-7649-2061-0 .
  • with Lars Ulrich Abraham: Melodielehre (= music pocket books. Theoretica. Vol. 13 = music pocket books 256). Gerig, Cologne 1972.
  • Between romantic and modern. 4 studies on the history of music in the later 19th century (= Berlin musicological works. Vol. 7). Katzbichler, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-87397-037-6 .
  • with Ernst Apfel: studies on the theory and history of musical rhythm and metrics (= musicological writings. Vol. 1). 2 volumes. Katzbichler, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-87397-100-3 (two chapters were written by Dahlhaus, the others by Apfel)
  • Basics of music history (= music pocket books. Theoretica. Vol. 15 = music pocket books 268). Gerig, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-87252-101-2 .
  • The idea of ​​absolute music. Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 1978, ISBN 3-7618-0599-3 .
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, 4th Symphony in B flat major (= masterpieces of music. Vol. 20). Fink, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7705-1740-4 .
  • The music of the 19th century (= New Handbook of Musicology. Vol. 6). Athenaion et al., Wiesbaden et al. 1980, ISBN 3-7997-0748-4 .
  • Musical realism. On the history of music in the 19th century (= Piper series 239). Piper, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-492-00539-X .
  • The music theory in the 18th and 19th centuries (= history of music theory. Vol. 10-11). 2 volumes. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1984–1989.
  • with John Deathridge: The New Grove Wagner. Macmillan, London et al. 1984, ISBN 0-333-36065-6 .
  • with Michael Zimmermann: Music, brought up for discussion. Music aesthetic texts from three centuries (= dtv 4421 dtv-Bärenreiter ). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag et al., Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7618-4421-2 .
  • with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht : What is music? (= Pocket books on musicology. Vol. 100). Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1985, ISBN 3-7959-0465-X .
  • Ludwig van Beethoven and his time. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1987, ISBN 3-921518-87-3 .
  • with Ruth Katz: Contemplating Music (Sources in the aesthetic of music, selected, edited, annotated and introduced, with original translations, in four volumes), New York: Pendragon Press, 1987–1991. Vol. I Substance (1987); Vol. II  Import (1989); Vol. III Essence (1991); Vol. IV Community of Discourse (1991).
  • with Norbert Miller : European Romanticism in Music. 2 volumes. Metzler, Stuttgart 1999-2008 (posthumously), ISBN 3-476-01982-9 .

Anthologies

  • Schönberg and others. Collected essays on new music. Schott, Mainz et al. 1978.
  • From musical drama to literary opera. Essays on modern opera history. Katzbichler, Munich et al. 1983, ISBN 3-87397-090-2 .
  • Classical and romantic musical aesthetics. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1988, ISBN 3-89007-142-2 .

Essays

  • Harmony; Counterpoint; Melody; Musical aesthetics; Rhythm metric; Sound system. All in: Rudolf Stephan (Ed.): Music (= Das Fischer-Lexikon. (Encyclopedia of Knowledge). Vol. 5). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1957.
  • Notation today. In: Ernst Thomas (Ed.): Notation of New Music (= Darmstadt Contributions to New Music. Vol. 9, ISSN  0418-3878 ). Schott's Sons et al., Mainz et al. 1965, pp. 9–34.
  • Form principles in Wagner's "Ring des Nibelungen". In: Heinz Becker (Ed.): Contributions to the history of the opera (= studies on the history of music of the 19th century. Vol. 15, ISSN  0081-7341 ). Bosse, Regensburg 1969, pp. 95-129.
  • Historical and aesthetic experience. In: Walter Wiora (ed.): The spread of historicism through music (= studies on the history of music in the 19th century. Vol. 14). Bosse, Regensburg 1969, pp. 243-247.
  • Classicism, romanticism, modernity: on the philosophy of 19th century music history. In: Walter Wiora (ed.): The spread of historicism through music (= studies on the history of music in the 19th century. Vol. 14). Bosse, Regensburg 1969, pp. 261-276.
  • Wagner and the program music. In: Studies in Romanticism. Vol. 9, 1970, ISSN  0039-3762 , pp. 3-20.
  • Aesthetic Problems in Electronic Music. In: Fritz Winckel (Ed.): Experimental Music. Room music, visual music, media music, word music, electronic music, computer music (= series of publications of the Academy of the Arts. Vol. 7, ISSN  0587-4610 ). Mann, Berlin 1970, pp. 81-90.
  • Is the twelve-tone technique illusory? A republic. In: The music research. Vol. 25, 1972, ISSN  0027-4801 , pp. 68-73.
  • On the critique of the aesthetic judgment. In: The music research. Vol. 23, 1970, pp. 411-419.
  • Adorno's concept of musical material. In: Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (ed.): On the terminology of the music of the 20th century (= publications of the Walcker Foundation. H. 5, ZDB -ID 401389-x ). Musikwissenschaftliche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Stuttgart 1974, pp. 9-17.
  • Romantic musical aesthetics and Viennese classical music. In: Archives for Musicology . Vol. 29, H. 3, 1972, ISSN  0003-9292 , pp. 167-181.
  • Political and Aesthetic Criteria of Composition Criticism. In: Darmstadt Contributions to New Music. Vol. 17, 1973, pp. 14-27.
  • The decline of tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht , Max Lütolf (Hrsg.): Studies on tradition in music. Kurt von Fischer on his 60th birthday. Katzbichler, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-87397-035-X , pp. 177-190.
  • On the problem of musical genres in the 19th century. In: Wulf Arlt et al. (Ed.): Genres of music in individual representations. Commemorative Leo Schrade. Series 1. Francke, Bern et al. 1973, ISBN 3-7720-0356-7 , pp. 840-895.
  • Liszt's “Mountain Symphony” and the idea of ​​symphonic poetry. In: Yearbook of the State Institute for Music Research, Prussian Cultural Heritage. 1975, ISSN  0572-6239 , pp. 96-130.
  • What is improvisation? In: Reinhold Brinkmann (Hrsg.): Improvisation and new music. 8 conference papers (= publications by the Institute for New Music and Music Education Darmstadt. Vol. 20). Schott, Mainz et al. 1979, ISBN 3-7957-1760-4 , pp. 9-23.
  • Music and Art Nouveau. In: Jürg Stenzl (Ed.): Art nouveau, Art Nouveau and Music. Published on the occasion of Willi Schuh's 80th birthday. Atlantis, Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7611-0604-1 , pp. 73-88.
  • Musorgsky in the history of music in the 19th century . In: Heinz-Klaus Metzger , Rainer Riehn (eds.): Modest Musorgskij - aspects of the opera work ( music concepts 21). edition text + kritik , Munich 1981, ISBN 3-88377-093-0 , pp. 7-22.
  • Why is new music so difficult to understand? Plea for a historical understanding. In: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (Ed.): Witnesses of knowledge. v. Hase and Koehler, Mainz 1986, ISBN 3-7758-1111-7 , pp. 939-956.

Editing

  • Johann Theile : Musical art book (= Monuments of North German Music. Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 540648-1 ). Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 1965.
  • Studies on the trivial music of the 19th century. = Studies on trivial music in the 19th century (= Studies on the history of music in the 19th century. Vol. 8, ISSN  0081-7341 ). Bosse, Regensburg 1967.
  • Richard Wagner's drama as a musical work of art (= studies on the history of music in the 19th century. Vol. 23). Bosse, Regensburg 1970.
  • Richard Wagner: piano works (= complete works. Vol. 19). Schott, Mainz et al. 1970.
  • Introduction to systematic musicology (= Musik-Taschen-Bücher. Vol. 10, ZDB -ID 526251-3 ). Music publisher Gerig, Cologne 1971.
  • Richard Wagner. Work and effect (= studies on the history of music in the 19th century. Vol. 26). Bosse, Regensburg 1971, ISBN 3-7649-2055-6 .
  • Riemann music dictionary . 12th edition. Personal section: supplementary volumes. Mainz 1972–1975.
  • The Mendelssohn problem (= studies on the history of music in the 19th century. Vol. 41). Bosse, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7649-2093-9 .
  • Contributions to musical hermeneutics (= studies on the history of music in the 19th century. Vol. 43). Bosse, Regensburg 1975, ISBN 3-7649-2102-1 .
  • Funkkolleg music. Study cover letter. Beltz et al., Weinheim et al. 1977–1978.
  • with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht: Brockhaus-Riemann-Musiklexikon. 2 volumes. Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1978–1979, ISBN 3-7653-0303-8 .
  • Studies on the history of music in Berlin in the early 19th century (= studies on the history of music in the 19th century. Vol. 56). Bosse, Regensburg 1980, ISBN 3-7649-2158-9 .
  • with Hermann Danuser: New Handbook of Musicology. 13 volumes. Laaber-Verlag et al., Laaber et al. 1980–1995, ISBN 3-7997-0742-5 .
  • with Helga de la Motte-Haber : Systematic Musicology (= New Handbook of Musicology. Vol. 10). Athenaion, Wiesbaden et al. 1982, ISBN 3-7997-0752-2 .
  • The music of the fifties. Attempt at revision. 6 contributions (= publications by the Institute for New Music and Music Education, Darmstadt. Vol. 26). Schott, Mainz et al. 1985, ISBN 3-7957-1766-3 .
  • The music of the 18th century (= New Handbook of Musicology. Vol. 5). Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1985, ISBN 3-89007-030-2 .
  • with the Research Institute for Music Theater at the University of Bayreuth under the direction of Sieghart Döhring : Piper's Enzyklopädie des Musiktheater . 6 volumes. Piper, Munich 1986-1997.
  • with others: Funkkolleg Musikgeschichte. European music from 12-20 Century. Beltz et al., Weinheim et al. 1987–1988.
  • with Norbert Miller: relationship magic. Music in modern poetry (= poetry and language. Vol. 7 = priority 4). Hanser, Munich et al. 1988, ISBN 3-446-15159-1 .
  • with Albrecht Riethmüller and Alexander L. Ringer: Beethoven: interpretations of his works. 2 volumes. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1994, ISBN 3-89007-259-3 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical College - Carl Dahlhaus. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Dahlhaus, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1989
Place of death Berlin