Arnold Schering

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Karl Dietrich Arnold Schering (born April 2, 1877 in Breslau , † March 7, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German musicologist and music critic .

Life

Arnold Schering grew up in Dresden as the son of the art publisher Garl Gustav Schering , who took over the art publisher Gustav Lohse there. He first attended the Annengymnasium in Dresden , learned to play the violin with Henri Petri and received music theory lessons. After graduating from the Kreuzgymnasium in 1896 , he studied violin with Joseph Joachim and composition with Reinhold Succo at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin . From 1898 to 1902 he studied musicology with Oskar Fleischer and Carl Stumpf as well as literary history and philosophy a. a. with Wilhelm Dilthey at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In 1900 he moved to Adolf Sandberger in Munich and then to Hermann Kretzschmar in Leipzig . In 1900/01 he did military service as a one-year volunteer in an infantry regiment. In 1902 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the history of the instrumental (violin) concert up to A. Vivaldi .

In 1907 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig with the work The Beginnings of the Oratorio , which he published in 1911 in an expanded form under the title History of the Oratorio . He then became a private lecturer in the history and aesthetics of music at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig (from 1908) and lecturer in music history at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig (from 1909). In 1915 he was made an unscheduled associate professor at the University of Leipzig , where he did military service in the Leisnig garrison from 1914 to 1916 . In 1920 he succeeded Hermann Abert as a full professor at the United Friedrichs University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 1927/28 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty there. From 1924 to 1928 he was a member of the spirit group. From 1928 he taught as a full professor of musicology (thus also as successor to Hermann Abert) and director of the music history seminar at the University of Berlin. His academic students included a. Adam Adrio , Helmut Banning , Helmut Boese , Wolfgang Boetticher , Siegfried Borris , Ernesto Epstein , Wilibald Gurlitt , Anneliese Landau , Helmuth Osthoff , Richard Petzoldt , Eberhard Rebling , Otto Riemer , Brigitte Schiffer , Hans Schnoor , Walter Serauky and Hellmuth Christian Wolff .

During his studies he worked as a music critic for Leipzig newspapers, and later for Signals for the musical world . He also became a member of the International Music Society . From 1903 to 1905 he was editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik . He was a committee member of the New Bach Society in Leipzig and from 1904 to 1939 editor of the Bach yearbook . In 1927 Schering became chairman of the Handel Society and chairman of the Commission for Monuments to German Music . He also directed the Collegia musica in Leipzig, Halle and Berlin . In 1927 he was made an honorary member of the Russian Imperial Institute for Art History in Leningrad.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he belonged to the National Socialist Teachers' Association and the Great Council of the Reich Chamber of Music . He was also a member of the German Academy . Until 1937 he was President of the German Society for Musicology (until 1933: German Music Society), in whose reorganization according to National Socialist principles he played a major role. The employment of young Nazis was promoted. Alfred Einstein had to resign from the editorial office of the magazine for musicology . At Schering's endeavor, Ludwig Schiedermair was appointed as his successor as president.

In January 1934 Schering gave a lecture at the Society for German Education on the Germanic in German music . In the same year, his book Beethoven appeared in a new interpretation , in which he assigned the works of Beethoven's scenes from Shakespeare and Schiller's dramas, making the claim that these assignments were both unambiguous and intended by Beethoven. In the same year he also wrote an article in the journal for musicology , in which he interpreted Beethoven's 5th Symphony in the sense of the Nazi regime as a “symphony of national uprising”. In 1936 he finally wrote in Beethoven and Poetry : "If brutal, sensual, racially alien music threatens to alienate us for a time from the inextricable connection between high music and high poetry, it may now be Beethoven who re-establishes this ideal bond" . However, his theses on the new Beethoven interpretation met with strong rejection in the National Socialist music literature.

Schering was considered one of the leading German musicologists of the first half of the 20th century. His focus was on Bach research, historical performance practice and the musical symbolism and aesthetics of Ludwig van Beethoven. He published a number of works, so he rediscovered Heinrich Schütz 's Christmas history and edited it as a supplement.

He was an Evangelical Lutheran and married to the daughter of the Göttingen mathematician Ernst Christian Julius Schering . His brother-in-law was the church historian Karl Heussi from Jena . In August 1940 he was released from his obligations due to illness. He died in March of the following year at the age of almost 64 in Berlin and was buried in the Heerstraße cemetery in what is now Berlin-Westend . The tomb has not been preserved.

Writings, editorships

  • From the musical work of art. With a foreword by Friedrich Blume . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1948 (also 1949, 1950, 1951).
  • History of Music in Examples. Three hundred and fifty tone sets from nine centuries. Collected, provided with source references . VEB Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1953 (reprint edition from 1935, first edition 1931), also 1957.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig Church Music. Studies and ways to find them. VEB Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1954, also 1956.
  • Preface to: Kurt Soldan (Ed.): Johann Sebastian Bach. Passion music based on the evangelist Matthew. Vocal score. Based on the autograph of the score and the parts. BWV 244. Peters, Leipzig 1956, also 1970.
  • JS Bach. BWV 245. St. John Passion. After the edition of the Bach Society and based on the autograph and parts, revised and given an introduction by Arnold Schering. Edition Peters, Leipzig 1961, also 1973, 1976.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach. Christmas Oratorio. BWV 248. After the edition of the Bach Society and based on the autograph and parts, revised and provided with an introduction. Edition Peters, Leipzig undated [1965].
  • Johann Sebastian Bach. Be silent, do not chat. Cantata No.211 [coffee edge]. For solo voice (soprano, tenor, bass), flute, string orchestra and continuo. Revised from the autograph and with an introduction. BWV 211. Edition Peters, Leipzig undated [1966].
  • Foreword to Kurt Soldan (Ed.): Johann Sebastian Bach. Passion music based on the evangelist Matthew. Vocal score. Based on the autograph of the score and the parts. BWV 244 . Edition Peters, Leipzig undated [around 1970].
  • With Rudolf Wustmann : Leipzig's Music History. Kistner & Siegel, Leipzig 1926–1941.
Photomechanical reprint of the original edition: Zentralantiquariat der DDR Leipzig 1974.
  • Beethoven and the poetry. With an introduction to the history and aesthetics of the Beethoven interpretation. With numerous music examples. Junker and Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1936 (= New German Research , Vol. 77, Dept. Musicology, Vol. 3).
Reprinted by Olms, Hildesheim, New York 1973, ISBN 3-487-04757-8 .
  • Edited with Kurt Soldan: Handel, Georg Friedrich. The Messiah. Oratorio. The Messiah. To Oratorio. Revised from the autograph and the voices of the Foundling Hospital in London. Edition Peters, Leipzig n.d. [1939], also 1959, also in Edition Peters, Frankfurt / Main, London, New York n.d. [1959].

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 6.084–6.086.
  2. ^ A b Helmuth OsthoffSchering, Arnold. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 11 (Rasch - Schnyder von Wartensee). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1963, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 1678–1679 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 66.650–66.651)
  3. ^ Günter Mühlpfordt and Günter Schenk: Der Spirituskreis (1890-1958). A learned society in the new humanist tradition. From the German Empire to the ban by Walter Ulbricht as part of the persecution at the University of Halle in 1957 and 1958 . Volume 1: 1890-1945 . Hallescher Verlag, Halle / Saale 2001, ISBN 3-929887-23-1 , p. 93.
  4. ^ First directory of the members of the International Music Society . In: Anthologies of the International Music Society 1 (1900) 4, pp. 1–7, here: p. 6.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 520.
  6. a b Bernhold Schmid:  Schering, Arnold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 696 f. ( Digitized version ).
  7. Quote from Fred K. Prieberg: Handbuch , p. 6.086.
  8. ^ Quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 520.
  9. Contribution by Ludwig Schiedermair in Deutsche Musikkultur, Volume 1, Issue 6, 1937 as well as Schering's reply and new replies by Schiedermair, Hans Pfitzner, Kurt Schuberts, Walter Abendroths, Frank Wohlfahrts in the same magazine, Volume 2 , Issue 2 , 1937.
  10. ^ Renate Huebner-Hinderling:  Schering, Arnold. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 165-166.
  11. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 494.