Heinrich Sievers (musicologist)

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Heinrich Sievers (born August 20, 1908 in Dorum , † September 17, 1999 in Garatshausen ) was a German musicologist , music critic , university professor and conductor . He was considered the nestor of the music history of Hanover and of Lower Saxony . and has written individual music historical accounts in English and Finnish publications.

Life

Heinrich Sievers was born in the small town of Dorum on the North Sea during the German Empire , but spent his youth in the towns of Goslar and Peine . After graduating from school, he studied musicology during the Weimar Republic , initially in Würzburg at the Julius Maximilians University . There he became a member of the Academic Choral Society of Würzburg

During his studies Sievers 1931 discovered in the archives of the monastery Wienhausen the Vienna Housing songbook from 1460, which he two decades later as a facsimile published.

From 1932 Sievers continued his studies in Cologne at the university there , where in 1935 he received his musicological examination The Latin liturgical Easter plays of the collegiate church of St. Blasien in Braunschweig ... for Dr. phil. received his doctorate.

From 1937 Sievers worked in Braunschweig as a music critic and began at the State Music School in Hanover in 1939 , the year the Second World War began .

Parallel to his work at the State Music School, Sievers was also able to work at the then Technical University of Hanover (TH) in the post-war period and still under the British military government from 1946 . He also taught at the regional church music school .

In 1954 Sievers took over the leadership of the collegium musicum , the symphony orchestra of the later Leibniz University of Hanover, succeeding the chemist and university professor Walter Scheele .

In 1959 Heinrich Sievers was appointed professor of musicology in Hanover at what was then the University of Music and Theater, at which he was also responsible for the church music department. In the same year he was appointed honorary professor at the TH Hannover. In addition, he worked again as a critic in magazines or daily newspapers such as the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1960 to 1968 he was music supervisor of the Sondershäuser Association of Academic-Musical Associations.

Heinrich Sievers spent almost his entire life researching the history of music, particularly of Hanover and Lower Saxony . His numerous essays, reviews, books and appearances on radio broadcasts were reflected in a number of publications. Among his most important are Die Musik in Hannover (1961), Musica curiosa (1970, 2nd edition 1971), Chamber Music in Hannover from 1980 and the keyword Hannover in the 1st edition of the encyclopedia The Music in Past and Present . His two volumes on the history of music in Hanover (1979 and 1984) are among the standard works .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • The Latin liturgical Easter games of the collegiate church of St. Blasien in Braunschweig. A musicological investigation ... (= Publications of the Lower Saxony Music History , Book 2, Kallmeyer: Wolfenbüttel), at the same time dissertation 1935 at the University of Würzburg, 1936
  • Heinrich Sievers, Albert Trapp, Alexander Schum: 250 years Braunschweigisches Staatstheater, 1690–1940 , published by the Braunschweigische Landesstelle für Heimatforschung und Heimatpflege, Braunschweig: Appelhans, 1941
  • Heinrich Sievers (Red.): Bach Year 1950 , ed. from the state capital Hanover
    • Episode 1: November 1949 to March 1950 , Hanover: Osterwald, 1949
  • Hanoverian music history. Documents, reviews and opinions , Tutzing: Schneider
  • The music in Hanover. The musical currents in Lower Saxony from the Middle Ages to the present with special consideration of the music history of the state capital Hanover , 168 partly illustrated pages with music examples and a long-playing record , ed. On the occasion of the 325th anniversary of the Opera House Orchestra by the Society of Friends of the Opera House Orchestra, Hanover: Sponholtz, 1961
  • Chamber music in Hanover. Historical, present - reviews, opinions. With special consideration of the work of the Hanover Chamber Music Community 1929–1979 , Tutzing: Schneider Verlag, 1980
  • Prisma der Musikgeschichte , Tutzing: Schneider, 1983, ISBN 978-3-7952-0393-1 and ISBN 3-7952-0393-7 ; contents

as editor:

  • Music in the world view , book series by the Braunschweigische Staatsmusikschule and the Landesmusikschule Hannover, Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1947 -
  • The Wienhausen song book , 2 volumes in facsimile , Wolfenbüttel: Möseler, 1954
  • AAHH Sievers: Musica curiosa. Newly opened musical-historical rarities cabinet, in which not only a real gallant-homme, who is not a professional relative, but also some musico even the most sincere and clearest idea of ​​musical notions, how they behave properly cleaned of school dust, actually and truly, ertheilet, also a blooming fragrant Würtzgärtlein Historiae Musicae, with honor and teaching, Schertz and Schmertz, suffering and joy plants, which to different. Planted at times, but now collected and collected for a strange pleasure for all sensible lovers. scattered in the open world , 191 partly illustrated pages with music examples, 2nd, modified and expanded edition, Tutzing: Schneider, 1971, ISBN 978-3-7952-0100-5 and ISBN 3-7952-0100-4
  • Scurrilia in musica. Essentials from all kinds of journals , Tutzing: Schneider, 1988, ISBN 978-3-7952-0569-0 and ISBN 3-7952-0569-7

literature

  • Günter Katzenberger (Ed.): Heinrich Sievers for his 70th birthday. In connection with Richard Jakoby , Tutzing: Schneider, 1978, ISBN 978-3-7952-0261-3 and ISBN 3-7952-0261-2 ; contents
  • Rita Seidel (author): Catalogus professorum 1831–1981. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover , ed. on behalf of the President, University of Hanover, Stuttgart; Berlin; Cologne; Mainz: Kohlhammer, 1981, ISBN 3-17-007321-4 , p. 298
  • Helga Fredebold: A Rössinger Original, Heinrich Sievers . In: Hildesheimer Heimat-Kalender: Calendar for family and home. Yearbook for Art and Science in Hildesheimer Land , Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1998, ISSN 0340-8477
  • Werner Sührig: Ostfälisches Platt in Hildesheimer Land. Sievers-Kese's complete works (= publications of the Hildesheim Regional Association , vol. 13), Hildesheim [u. a.]: Olms, 2002, p. 167

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g o.V. : Sievers, Heinrich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek in the version of July 1, 2015, last accessed on February 28, 2018
  2. ↑ a b o. V .: History of the Collegium Musicum Hannover on the page orchester.uni-hannover.de in the version of January 15, 2018, last accessed on February 28, 2018
  3. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1988 , in: Hannover Chronik , pp. 301–305; here: p. 304; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b c d The authors , in Sabine Hammer (ed.), George Alexander Albrecht , Urs Boeck (author): The opera house in Hanover. Architecture and theater history , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1986, ISBN 978-3-87706-029-2 and ISBN 3-87706-029-3 , pp. 187–190; here: p. 190
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hugo Thielen : Sievers, Heinrich , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 355
  6. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 116.
  7. ↑ Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
  8. ↑ a b Rudolf Klein (Ed.): Sievers, Dr. phil., Heinrich, Prof., musicologist in Hanover , in ders .: Niedersachsenlexikon. Everything worth knowing about the state of Lower Saxony , Frankfurt am Main: Umschau-Verlag, 1969, p. 352f.
  9. ^ Association of Alter SVer (Ed.): The SV manual. 4th edition o. O. 2017, p. 402.
personal data
SURNAME Sievers, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, music critic, university professor and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorum
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1999
Place of death Garatshausen