Arnold Feil

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Arnold Feil (born October 2, 1925 in Mannheim ; † March 30, 2019 in Tübingen ) was a German musicologist and university professor .

Life

Feil was born in Mannheim, but grew up in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . He holds a degree in music ( piano and conducting ) at the music schools in Mannheim and Heidelberg as well as a degree in musicology , the Latin Philology of the Middle Ages , the history (Middle Ages), the philosophy and art history at the University of Heidelberg , he with a Ph.D. Graduated in 1954. From 1954 to 1958 he worked as a music officer at the cultural office of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. From 1959 to 1982 he was a lecturer in musicology at the University of Stuttgart ; at the same time lecturer for musicology at the University of Applied Sciences for Libraries in Stuttgart .

He received his habilitation at the University of Tübingen in 1965 and was an adjunct professor of musicology there from 1972 . After working as professor of music history at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Hanover in 1977 and 1978 , he was professor of musicology again in Tübingen from 1979 to 1988 .

In 1965 he was one of the founders of the International Franz Schubert Society, which published the New Schubert Edition , in which Feil played a key role until he retired.

On the occasion of Feil's 90th birthday, the University of Tübingen hosted a ceremony on October 13, 2015 with greetings from Jürgen Leonhardt and Thomas Schipperges . The lecture entitled "Arnold Feil: 60 Years of Music Research" was given by Walther Dürr , music contributions came from Jörg Büchler, Andreas Flad and Naomi Kautt.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Composition-technical questions in the theory of composition by Friedrich Erhard Niedt , Joseph Riepel and Heinrich Christoph Koch , Diss. Heidelberg 1955.
  • Studies on Schubert's Rhythmics , Munich 1966, 2nd edition Hildesheim 1997 (habilitation thesis).
  • Franz Schubert. Die Schöne Müllerin , Winterreise , Stuttgart 1975, 2nd edition 1996.
  • Edited together with Werner Aderhold, Walther Dürr and Christa Landon: Otto Erich Deutsch . Franz Schubert. Thematic index of his works in chronological order , Kassel 1978.
  • Together with Walther Dürr: Reclam's music guide Franz Schubert , Stuttgart 1991.
  • Metzler Musik Chronik from the early Middle Ages to the present , Stuttgart and Weimar 1993, 2nd, expanded edition 2005.
  • About music as reality. Selected essays and lectures , ed. by Jörg Büchler, Wilhelmshaven 2019 (pocket books on musicology, vol. 171).

Editions

  • Franz Schubert. New edition of all works , ed. from the International Schubert Society:
    • Together with Christa Landon: Vol. V / 1: Symphonies No. 1-3 , Kassel 1967.
    • Vol. VI / 1: Octets and Nonets , Kassel 1969.
    • Vol. VI / 7: Works for piano and several instruments , Kassel 1975.
    • Together with Douglas Woodfull-Harris: Symphonies No. 4-6 , Kassel 1999.

Essays

  • Mozart's duet "With men who feel love". Periodic-metric questions , in: Festschrift Walter Gerstenberg for his 60th birthday , ed. by Georg von Dadelsen and Andreas Holschneider , Wolfenbüttel and Zurich 1964, pp. 45–54.
  • Folk music and trivial music. Remarks by a historian on their separation , in: Die Musikforschung 26 (1973), pp. 159–166.
  • On the genesis of the song genre as defined by Franz Schubert , in: Muzikološki zbornik 11 (1975), pp. 40–53.
  • About music as reality , in: Festschrift Georg von Dadelsen for his 60th birthday , ed. by Thomas Kohlhase and Volker Scherliess , Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1978, pp. 113–129.
  • The musical culture of the Mediterranean basin and the occidental polyphony , in: Report of the Twelfth Congress (IGMW) Berkeley 1977 , Kassel 1981, pp. 402-405.
  • Goethe and Schubert's ' Erlkönig ' , in: Festschrift Rudolf Bockholdt for his 60th birthday , ed. by Norbert Dubowy and Sären Meyer-Eller, Pfaffenhofen 1990, pp. 339–351.
  • On the rhythm of the Viennese classics , in: International Musicological Congress for the Mozart Year 1991 Baden-Vienna. Report , Vol. 1, ed. by Ingrid Fuchs, Tutzing 1993, pp. 241-254.
  • Reflections on instrumental music and instrumental composition in the older occidental music history , in: Traditions - Neuansätze. For Anna Amalie Abert (1906-1996) , ed. by Klaus Hortschansky, Tutzing 1997, pp. 265-272.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death notice of Prof. Dr. Arnold Feil . In: " Schwäbisches Tagblatt ", April 3, 2019
  2. ↑ Obituary notice Prof. Dr. Arnold Feil from the University of Tübingen. In: "Schwäbisches Tagblatt", April 6, 2019

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personal data
SURNAME Feil, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2019
Place of death Tübingen