Andreas Liess

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Andreas Liess (born June 16, 1903 in Klein-Kniegnitz in Silesia , † May 21, 1988 in Klosterneuburg ) was an Austrian music teacher , musicologist and cultural philosopher.

Life

Andreas Liess comes from one of the oldest pastor families in Silesia on his mother's side. His father was also a Protestant pastor in Silesia. After completing high school in Strehlen in Lower Silesia, he studied musicology in Vienna with Guido Adler and Rudolf von Ficker , under which he received his doctorate in 1928 with the dissertation “The basic elements of harmony in the music of Claude Debussy ”. During his two-year stay in Paris , he met the leading figures in music there, especially Madame Debussy , Arthur Honegger , Jacques Ibert , Florent Schmitt and Bohuslav Martinů . After returning from Paris, he lived as a freelance writer in Vienna for 20 years, where, after completing his habilitation on Viennese baroque music in 1952, he was appointed lecturer in music history at the Vienna Conservatory. In 1958 he became (1970 University of Music and Performing Arts, since 1998 at the State Academy of Music University of Music and Performing Arts ) called, where he remained until his retirement in 1973 taught as a college professor, the subjects musical and cultural history and music aesthetics. In the last years of his life he lived in seclusion near Vienna. His estate is in the Vienna Library in the City Hall in Vienna. The correspondence with Carl Orff is kept in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and in the Orff-Zentrum Munich , the correspondence with Joseph Marx and Egon Wellesz in the Austrian National Library .

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The following subject areas deserve special mention from his music-historical work: Claude Debussy and modern French music as well as modernism as a whole, especially Carl Orff , with whom he was in close personal and intellectual contact for decades. Further emphases: Johann Joseph Fux and Viennese baroque music as well as the Viennese opera ( Johann Michael Vogl ). His cultural-philosophical work revolves around the conception of a “polydimensional-dynamic image of history” by using the term “reinterpretation”. His music history works are also embedded in this concept.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Claude Debussy. The work in the time picture. 2 volumes. (= Collection of musicological treatises - Collection d'études musicologiques. 19). Strasbourg 1936. (2nd edition. Verlag Valentin Körner, Baden-Baden 1978, ISBN 3-87320-519-X )
  • Claude Debussy and German music creation. (= Small German Music Library. Volume 2). Triltsch publishing house, Würzburg 1939.
  • L. v. Beethoven and Richard Wagner in Parisian musical life. (= Spiritual Europe ). Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1939.
  • The trio sonatas by Johann Joseph Fux. A study on the dynamic image of history in the southern German late baroque. Berlin 1940
  • Joseph Marx , life and work. Styrian publishing house, Graz 1943.
  • Viennese baroque music. (= Wiener Musik-Bücherei. Volume 3). Publishing house Ludwig Doblinger, Vienna 1946.
  • Johann Joseph Fux, a Styrian master of the baroque, along with a list of new finds. Doblinger publishing house, Vienna 1948.
  • Music in the contemporary worldview. Knowledge and confession. Werk-Verlag Frisch & Perneder, Lindau 1949.
  • Franz Schmidt . Life and work. Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Graz 1951.
  • Johann Michael Vogl, court operist and pusher singer. Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Graz / Cologne 1954.
  • Carl Orff, idea and work. Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, Zurich 1955. (second, revised edition. Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-7611-0236-4 . Paperback edition Wilhelm Goldmann-Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-442-33038-6 )
  • The music of the West in the spiritual gradient of the epochs. A historical-phenomenological draft. ed. in cooperation with the Austrian Society for Music. Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna / Munich 1970.
  • On the theory of a polyvalent, polydimensional and dynamic image of history. In: Science and Research. Journal for basic questions of research and worldview. 1, Vienna 1971.
  • The way inwards, locating aesthetic thinking today. San-Michele publishing house, Zurich 1973.
  • Prominences. Volume 1: On the theory of music history. Bergland Verlag, Vienna 1970.
  • Carl Orff's De Temporum Fine Comoedia. On creation and work. In: Studi Musicali Anno. Volume II, No. 2, 1973, pp. 341-363.
  • Claude Debussy and the Art Nouveau. Firenze 1978.
  • Critical considerations on a holistic philosophy of music. Work analysis and experience. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1980, ISBN 3-205-07151-4 .
  • Two essays on Carl Orff: De Temporum Fine Comoedia. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1981.
  • Tractatus Religioso-Philosophicus. A blueprint. (= Fragments of a culture and philosophy of life. 80). Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1981.

Numerous articles in: Fragments of a philosophy of culture and life. ed. by Rudolf M. Rozinek (SAW Schmitt Verlag Zurich, Viernheim Verlag Viernheim, 1976 ff.)

literature

  • Alfred Orel : Andreas Liess on completing his 60th year of birth. In: New magazine for music. 1963.
  • Gertrud Berger: The historical dimension in the music-philosophical thinking of Andreas Liess around Theodor W. Adorno . In: International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. vol. 2, Zagreb 1971, pp. 5-35.
  • Dizionario enciclopedico universale della Musica et dei Musicisti, diretto da Alberto Basso, Le Biography. vol. quarto, Torino 1986, ISBN 88-02-04057-5 , p. 402.
  • Felix Czelke : Andreas Liess. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien. Volume 4, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00748-8 .
  • Alexander Rausch: Liess, Andreas. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon. Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 , p. 1278 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See in particular: "Reinterpretation" as a basic concept in music history. In: Protuberances. 1970, pp. 11-21 and the article on the theory of a polyvalent, polydimensional and dynamic image of history. 1971.
personal data
SURNAME Liess, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian music teacher, musicologist and cultural philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein-Kniegnitz , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1988
Place of death Klosterneuburg