Albi Rosenthal

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Albrecht Gabriel Rosenthal , called Albi Rosenthal (born October 5, 1914 in Munich ; died August 3, 2004 in Oxford ) was a British music antiquarian and musicologist.

Life

Albrecht Rosenthal came from the Rosenthal family, who founded an antiquarian bookshop in Munich in 1867. His father was Erwin Rosenthal (1889–1981), his grandfather the bookseller and antiquarian Jacques Rosenthal (1854–1937).

After the National Socialists came to power , Rosenthal emigrated to England at the end of 1933. Through his father's mediation, he studied art history with Fritz Saxl and for three years with Rudolf Wittkower at the Warburg Institute , as well as palaeography with Robin Flower and Richard Salomon at the British Museum . He deepened his practical and theoretical interest in music through private studies with Egon Wellesz . His first article on Dürer's "Dream" appeared in The Burlington Magazine in 1938 . In the period that followed, he published over 70 articles in specialist journals on the subjects of book trade, bibliography, autographs and music autographs.

In the antiquarian bookshop he founded in 1936, “A. Rosenthal Ltd. ”, the first catalog appeared in 1937 with one hundred manuscripts and books from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The business moved to Oxford in 1941 after being bombed out in London .

Rosenthal was naturalized as a British in 1945 . In 1948 his first catalog of music was published in Oxford. He started with Maurice Ettinghausen , (father of Walter Eytan ), to export antique books to the USA. Ettinghausen gave him the reference to the motet manuscripts from the 13th century La Clayette , which Rosenthal found again and which the Bibliothèque nationale de France brokered.

While selling the collection of the pianist Alfred Cortot in 1951, he met the antiquarian Otto Haas , whose business he took over in addition to his own in 1955 and continued to run it under the old name.

Rosenthal brokered purchases for the Schumann Archive in Zwickau and for the Brahms Institute in Lübeck and worked with the heads of the music department of the Berlin State Library Rudolf Elvers and Helmut Hell as well as with Klaus Maurice , Secretary General of the Cultural Foundation of the States . He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Beethoven House , the Nietzsche House in Sils Maria and the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Since 1973 he has been building up Paul Sacher's collection and procuring the manuscripts from the estate of Anton Webern and Igor Stravinsky for the foundation founded in 1986 . With Alan Tyson he published Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's catalog of all my works in 1990 . His font collection Obiter Scripta was published in 2000.

The International Mozarteum Foundation honored his efforts with the Golden Mozart Needle. The Oxford University Orchestra appointed her longtime violinist President, and Oxford University awarded him an honorary Magister Artium in 1979 . Festschriften in his honor appeared in 1984, 1989 and 1994. On his 80th birthday, he donated his collection of Mozart editions to the Bodleian Library.

His wife Maud (1909–2007), married in 1947, was the daughter of the doctor and passionate Nietzsche researcher Oscar Levy , Maud and Albi took care of the edition of Oscar Levy's works. They had three children, two daughters, Jacqueline (married Gray) and Julia, who took over the antiquarian business. The son Jim Rosenthal became a sports reporter.

The Munich City Archive has an extensive company and family archive of the Rosenthals, which has been expanded again since 2014 through donations from the Oxford antiquarian Julia Rosenthal.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Alan Tyson: Mozart's thematic catalog: a facsimile, British Library, Stefan Zweig MS 63, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY 1990, ISBN 0-8014-2545-X .
  • with Jacqueline Gray: Obiter scripta. Essays, lectures, articles, interviews, and reviews on music and other subjects . Offox Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-8108-3861-3 .

literature

Festschriften

  • Rudolf Elvers : Festschrift Albi Rosenthal . H. Schneider, Tutzing 1984.
  • Hermann Danuser , Felix Meyer, Ulrich Mosch : Igor Stravinsky, Trois pièces pour quatuor à cordes: sketches, versions, documents, essays. Celebration for Albi Rosenthal on his 80th birthday . Paul Sacher Foundation. Amadeus Verlag, Winterthur, Switzerland 1994.
  • Thierry Bodin (Ed.): In memoriam Albi Rosenthal: October 5, 1914 - August 3, 2004. A catalog presented as a tribute in gratitude; on the occasion of the Albi Rosenthal memorial concert, London, Wigmore Hall, 5 November 2004 . Voerster, Stuttgart 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Nicolas Barker: Albi Rosenthal. Doyen of music booksellers and collector of Mozart and Nietzsche . In: The Independent , August 10, 2004.
  2. ↑ The life dates between MGG and Barker differ slightly from each other
  3. ^ Maurice L. Ettinghausen collection of Ruhleben civilian internment camp papers, 1914–1937: Finding Aid ( Memento from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Harvard Law School Library
  4. ^ Leo Schrade: Unknown Motets in a Recovered Thirteenth-Century Manuscript. In: Speculum . Vol. 30, No. 3 July 1955, pp. 393-412 ( JSTOR 2848078 ).
  5. ↑ Albi Rosenthal. Bookseller and collector whose interests embraced music, palaeography, autograph manuscripts and letters. In: The Times . August 25, 2004.
  6. ↑ Nicolas Barker: Maud Rosenthal: Oscar Levy's "daughter-secretary" , The Independent , January 22, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Rosenthal, Albi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenthal, Albrecht; Rosenthal, Albrecht Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British music antiquarian and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2004
Place of death Oxford