Arno Forchert

Arno Forchert (born December 29, 1925 in Berlin ; † March 11, 2011 in Detmold ) was a German musicologist .

biography

Scientific career

Forchert studied music from 1947 to 1950 (majoring in piano) and then musicology at the Free University of Berlin . There he was with a thesis on the late work of 1957 Michael Praetorius doctorate . From 1956 to 1960 he headed the music teacher seminar at the John Petersen Conservatory in Berlin-Zehlendorf, and from 1960 he worked as a lecturer in music history at the church music school in Berlin-Spandau . From 1959 Forchert worked as a research assistant at the musicological institute of the Free University of Berlin , where he completed his habilitation in 1967 and taught until 1978. In 1971 he followed a call to the North West German Music Academy in Detmold for a position as a full professor of musicology. There he founded the Musicology Seminar in 1977 , which he headed until his retirement in 1991. In 1981 he moved to the University of Paderborn to transfer the musicology seminar in Detmold to a joint facility of the University of Paderborn and the Detmold Music Academy . From 1988 to 1997 he was President of the International Heinrich Schütz Society, which made him an honorary member. A commemorative publication edited by Gerhard Allroggen and Detlef Altenburg was published on his 60th birthday . Forchert died on March 11, 2011 in his house in Detmold.

further activities

• 1950–1970 freelancer at RIAS Berlin.
• 1958–1963 program introductions for the concerts of the Berlin Philharmonic .
• 1964–1972 employee of the magazine "Phono-Forum" and member of the jury of the German Record Prize .
• 1976–1981 Chairman of the Musicology and Music Pedagogy Section of the Society for Music Research .
• 1981–1988 Advisory Board for Music at the Goethe Institute in Munich.
• 1983–1985 Dean and Vice Dean of Faculty 4 at the University of Paderborn
• 1984–1988 appraiser for musicology and deputy chairman of the art history committee of the German Research Foundation .
• 1985–1989 member of the board of the Society for Music Research.
• 1994–1998 Advisory Board for the Music of the 17th Century of the Music Lexicon Music in Past and Present .

Private

Arno Forchert was married twice. His first marriage resulted in two sons. His first wife died before him. In his second marriage he was married until his death.

Fonts

Books

• The late work of Michael Praetorius. Italian and German style encounter (= Berlin Studies in Musicology Volume 1), Berlin 1959.
• Studies on the understanding of music in the early 19th century. Requirements and aspects of contemporary interpretation of musical works , habilitation thesis Berlin 1967.
• Johann Sebastian Bach and his time , Laaber 2000.

Articles (selection)

Michael Praetorius

• Michael Praetorius - Work and Effect , Sagittarius 4, Kassel 1973, pp. 98–110.
• Michael Praetorius and the music at the court of Wolfenbüttel ; Daphnis 10, 1981, pp. 625-642.
• Music between religion and politics. Remarks on the biography of Michael Praetorius ; Festschrift for Martin Ruhnke , Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1985, pp. 104–125.

Heinrich Schütz

• Heinrich Schütz as a composer of Protestant hymn texts ; Schütz yearbook 1982/83, pp. 57-67.
• Heinrich Schütz and the musica poetica , Schütz-Jahrbuch 1993, pp. 7–23.
• On the history of the Heinrich Schütz Society ; Schütz-Jahrbuch 1996, pp. 7-24.
• Reflections on the influence of Italy on German music around 1600: prerequisites and conditions ; Appropriation through transformation. Essays on German music and architecture of the 16th and 17th centuries, ed. by W. Steude, Regensburg 1998, pp. 135-147.
• Between Schütz and Bach: theater style and church music ; European history of music, ed. by S. Ehrmann, L. Finscher, G. Schubert, Kassel 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 377-405.

Johann Sebastian Bach

• Johann Sebastian Bach's relationship to tradition ; 51st Bach Festival of the New Bach Society, Berlin (West) from August 25 to 30, 1976. Program book, pp. 5–16.
• From Bach to Mendelssohn ; Bachtage Berlin, ed. by G. Wagner, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1985, pp. 211-223.
• Bach and the tradition of rhetoric ; Early Music as Aesthetic Present, Congress Report Stuttgart 1985, ed. by Dietrich Berke and D. Hahnemann, Vol. 1, Kassel 1987, pp. 169-178.
• "The capital of Sebastian Bach". Berlin Bach traditions between classical and romantic ; JbSIMPK 1995, pp. 9-28.
• Bach's treatment of the text and its relationship to the theory of composition of his time ; Paths to Bach, second part, Societas Bach internationalis, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 24–32.

Ludwig van Beethoven

• Schering 's interpretation of Beethoven and its methodological requirements ; Contributions to musical hermeneutics, ed. by Carl Dahlhaus , Regensburg 1975, pp. 41–52; Reprinted in: Ludwig van Beethoven, ed. by Ludwig Finscher, Darmstadt 1983, pp. 19–35.
• On the composition technique of Beethoven's string quartets ; Festschrift for Heinrich Hüschen , ed. von Detlef Altenburg, Cologne 1980, pp. 151–158.
• The depiction of melancholy in Beethoven's op. 18, 6 ; Ludwig van Beethoven, ed. by Ludwig Finscher , Darmstadt 1983, pp. 212-239.
• Beethoven, 2nd Piano Concerto in B flat major op. 19, Symphony in C major op. 21 ; Beethoven. Interpretations of his works, ed. by Albrecht Riethmüller , C. Dahlhaus, AL Ringer, Vol. 1, Regensburg 1994, pp. 151-160 and pp. 170-184.
• Beethoven's "Pathetique". Predecessor and successor ; Festschrift for Friedhelm Krummacher , ed. by Siegfried Oechsle , Bernd Sponheuer , Helmut Well, Kassel 2001, pp. 169–180.

Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss

• On the dissolution of traditional form categories in music around 1900: Problems of formal organization in Mahler and Strauss. In: Archives for Musicology . 32, 1975, pp. 85-98; Translation into Spanish: Quodlibet 9, 1997, pp. 24-37.
• Techniques of motivic-thematic work in works by Strauss and Mahler. In: C. Floros, HJ Marx, P. Petersen (eds.): On the history of music in the 19th century. Hamburg 1977, pp. 187-200.
• R. Stephan (ed.): Mahler and Schumann. Mahler interpretations. Mainz 1985, pp. 45-61.

Music theory writings

• A treatise on Modi musici from 1652 ; Festschrift for Bruno Stäblein, ed. by Martin Ruhnke, Kassel 1967, pp. 57-63.
• French authors in the writings of Johann Mattheson ; Festschrift for Heinz Becker , ed. by J. Schläder and R. Quandt, Regensburg 1982, pp. 382-391.
• Mattheson and Church Music ; Genre and work in the history of music in Northern Germany and Scandinavia, ed. by F. Krummacher and HW Schwab, Kassel 1982, pp. 114-122.
• Polemics as a form of knowledge: remarks on the writings of Mattheson ; New Mattheson Studies, ed. by GJ Buelow and HJ Marx, Cambridge 1983, pp. 199-212.
• Music and rhetoric in the baroque era ; Schütz-Jahrbuch 1985/86, pp. 5-21.
• On the expression of sensation in music ; Festschrift for Carl Dahlhaus , ed. by H. Danuser, H. de la Motte-Haber, S. Leopold, N. Miller, Regensburg 1988, pp. 39-50.
• Madrigalism and musical-rhetorical figure ; in Festschrift for Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller, ed. by JP Fricke, Regensburg 1989, pp. 151-169.
• "Aesthetic" impression and compositional analysis. Two levels of musical reception in the first half of the 19th century ; Reception aesthetics and reception history in musicology, ed. by H. Danuser and F. Krummacher, Regensburg 1991, pp. 193-203.
• The Italian motet at the beginning of the 17th century ; The motet. Contributions to their genre history, ed. by H. Schneider, Mainz 1991, pp. 205-215.

Others

• Comments on the work of Alexander Scriabin. Order and expression at the limits of tonality ; Festschrift for Pepping, ed. by H. Poos, Berlin 1971.
• Text layout and presentation principles in Mendelssohn's Elias ; The Mendelssohn Problem, ed. by Carl Dahlhaus , Regensburg 1974, pp. 61–77.
• "Classical" and "Romantic" in early 19th century music literature ; Musikforschung 31, 1978, pp. 405-425.
• Adolf Bernhard Marx and his Berliner Allgemeine musical newspaper ; Studies on the music history of Berlin in the early 19th century, ed. by Carl Dahlhaus, Regensburg 1980, pp. 381–404.
• Modern features in chamber music from Reger's time in Wiesbaden ; Reger studies 3, analyzes and source studies, Wiesbaden 1988, pp. 11–24.
• Droysen and Wagner. On the concept of musical drama; Festschrift for Rudolf Stephan , ed. by J. Kuckertz , H. de la Motte-Haber, CM Schmidt, W. Seidel, Regensburg 1990, pp. 251-257.
• Schumann's late work in the scientific discussion ; Schumann in Düsseldorf, ed. by BR Appel , Mainz 1993, pp. 7-23.

Editing

• New edition of all works by Johann Hermann Schein .
• Detmold-Paderborn contributions to musicology (since 1989).
• New edition of the facsimile reprint of the Syntagma musicum by Michael Praetorius (Kassel 2001).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Musicology Seminar Detmold / Paderborn mourns the loss of its founder, Prof. Dr. Arno Forchert 1925–2011 ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 37 kB), accessed on June 6, 2011  
2. ^ Forchert, Arno .: Johann Sebastian Bach and his time . Laaber, Laaber 2000, ISBN 978-3-921518-85-4 .