Alfred Loewenberg

Alfred Berg Loewe (* 14. May 1902 in Berlin , † 29. December 1949 in London ) was German-British musicologist and Emigrant in the era of National Socialism . He also uses the pseudonym Alfred Loeven.

Life

Loewenberg completed his university studies in Berlin and Jena in 1925 with a doctorate as Dr. phil. from. He was involved in the publication of the first edition of the Propylaea art history . In 1934 he was co-editor of the Philo-Lexikon. Handbook of Jewish Knowledge . A year later he emigrated to England and since May 1, 1936 had a library card for the British Museum , in whose Reading Room he had his center of life and continued his studies. In Great Britain, in 1940, he finished working on the first edition of the Annals of Opera , which was to provide a directory of all opera performances. Although incomplete, they were not fundamentally revised in the posthumous new editions either. During the Second World War Loewenberg was a soldier in the British Army in the Pioneer Corps . From June 1944 he worked for the "British Union Catalog of Periodicals", from 1947 as co-editor in the successor of Theodore Besterman . For the supplementary volume to the fourth and for the fifth edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , he drew a number of articles with AL . On the basis of his card boxes, a directory of German theater performances between 1880 and 1930 could also appear in the USA.

Loewenberg became a member of various academic societies, such as the Royal Musical Association and the Bibliographical Society. In September 1947 he was naturalized. He died at the age of 47 years at a pneumonia .

Fonts (selection)

• Contributions to the psychology of feelings , Jena, Phil. Diss., May 1925
• Emil Naumann: General history of music . Revised and continued by Alfred Loeven to the present day. Berlin: Eigenbrödler-Verlag 1927
• Hugo F. Koenigsgarten: Georg Kaiser. With a bibliography by Alfred Loewenberg . Potsdam: G. Kiepenheuer 1928
• Emanuel Bin Gorion, Alfred Loeven, Otto Neuburger, Hans Oppenheimer (editor): Philo-Lexicon: Handbook of Jewish knowledge . Berlin: Philo-Verlag 1935
• Marianne Schmidt and Mrs. Edward Fenimore: Fifty years of German drama: a bibliography of modern German drama, 1880–1930, based on the Loewenberg collection in the Johns Hopkins university library. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1941
• Annals of opera 1597-1940: compiled from the original sources . Cambridge: Heffer & Sons 1943.
  • Annals of opera 1597-1940 . 2nd edition, revised and correted. Genève: Societas Bibliographica 1955
• Early Dutch librettos and plays with music in the British Museum . London: Aslib 1947
• The theater of the British Isles: excluding London. A bibliography compiled by Alfred Loewenberg . London: Society for Theater Research 1949.

literature

• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
• John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 444 (obviously wrongly named 1950 as the year of death).
• Riemann Music Lexicon . Supplementary volume, personal section LZ. Mainz: Schott 1975, p. 76.
• Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 741 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfred Loewenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alexander Hyatt King: Alfred Loewenberg: 1902–1949 . In: Music & Letters, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr., 1950), pp. 116-118 Oxford University Press

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Kaufman, review in: operatoday January 24, 2005