Fritz Winckel

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Fritz Wilhelm Winckel (born June 20, 1907 in Bregenz ; † August 13, 2000 in Goslar ) was an Austrian - German acoustician and one of the pioneers of electronic music.

Winckel studied telecommunications technology and acoustics at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1927 to 1932 . He initially worked in the field of television technology. After 1932 he and Walther Nernst developed the Neo-Bechstein grand piano , an electro-mechanical musical instrument. From 1937 to 1945 he worked for the Siemens aviation equipment factory.

After 1945 he studied physics with István Szabó and worked in the field of experimental voice and language research, where he was particularly interested in the analysis of the human singing voice. In 1951 he published his habilitation thesis on acoustic structural analyzes of language and music . Since 1954 he has been in charge of the course for qualified sound engineers, which was created at his instigation and implemented in cooperation between the Technical University and the University of Music . At the end of the 1950s, along with Boris Blacher, he was one of the founders of the working group for electronic music , which was located in the studio for electronic music at the Technical University that he founded in 1953. The spherical auditorium designed by Karlheinz Stockhausen for the World Exhibition in Osaka 1969–70 was also developed here.

Fonts

  • Otto Möckel; Fritz Winckel: The Art of Violin Making . 2nd ed. 1954. 8th edition Hamburg: Voigt, 1977. ISBN 3-582-00100-8 . Later editions under Otto Möckel: Geigenbaukunst .
  • The radio piano from Bechstein-Siemens-Nernst . In: Die Umschau, 35, 1931, pp. 840-843.
  • The acoustics of the violin . Berlin-Steglitz: BF Voigt, 1957.
  • Boris Blacher; H.-H. Dräger; Fritz Winckel: Sound Structure of Music: New Findings in Electronic Music Research . Lecture series “Music u. Technology "of the external institute of the Technical University Berlin-Charlottenburg with lecturer. by Boris Blacher, H.-H. Dräger [u. a.]. On behalf of d. External institute of the Technical University zsgest. u. edit by F. Winckel. Berlin-Borsigwalde: Verl. F. Radio-photo-cinema technology, 1955.
  • Music, sound and sensation: A modern exposition . Translation by Thomas Binkley. New York: Dover Publications, 1987.
  • Experimental music . Berlin: Mann 1970.
  • Fritz Winkel (Ed.): Impulse technology . Lecture series of the external institute of the Technical University Berlin-Charlottenburg in connection with the Electrotechnical Association Berlin eV Berlin: Springer, 1956.
  • Phenomena of musical hearing . Aesthetic-natural sciences Considerations. Notes on performance practice in concerts and Broadcast. Berlin; Wunsiedel: Hesse, 1960.

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SURNAME Winckel, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winckel, Fritz Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German acoustician, pioneer of electronic music
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2000
Place of death Goslar