Adam Adrio
Adam Adrio (born April 4, 1901 in Essen , † September 18, 1973 in Klobenstein , South Tyrol ) was a German musicologist and university professor in Berlin .
Life
From 1927 Adrio studied musicology with Hermann Abert , Arnold Schering , Hans Joachim Moser and Friedrich Blume at the Berlin University. His dissertation from 1934/1935 is entitled The Beginnings of the Sacred Concert . After working as an assistant in Berlin with Schering at the music history seminar, he took over the university's Collegium musicum vocale, where he became a full professor in 1953, and taught at the Berlin church music school. He taught liturgy at the Protestant theological faculty.
Works
Adrio distinguished himself above all as a publisher of Protestant church music from the early baroque and baroque periods. He published the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Georg Kühnhausen , worked with Johann Rudolph Ahle , Dietrich Buxtehude , Christoph Demantius , Johann Crüger , Melchior Franck , Tobias Michael Johann Hermann Schein , Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel , Georg Philipp Telemann , but also on the music of the 20th century , e.g. B. Ernst Pepping .
In 1937 he edited the Festschrift for his teacher Arnold Schering together with Helmuth Osthoff and Walter Serauky . In the second half of the 20th century he wrote several essays in the history of Protestant church music , which Friedrich Blume published in 1965. He also wrote numerous articles in the music lexicon Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (from 1949). For the large multi-volume music sample collection Das Musikwerk , he put together the 19th volume on the subject of fugues .
He also compiled musician biographies for the Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB), which appeared in 1953 .
literature
- Article about Adam Adrio in MGG, Volume 1. Kassel 1949, Col. 91.
- Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Adrio, Adam. 12th completely revised edition. 1. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 10 (first edition: 1882).
Web links
- Literature by and about Adam Adrio in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adrio, Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th September 1973 |
| Place of death | Klobenstein |