Joseph Müller-Blattau

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Joseph Maria Müller-Blattau (born May 21, 1895 in Colmar ; † October 21, 1976 in Saarbrücken ) was a German musicologist and National Socialist cultural functionary. He is known as the “Nestor of Saarbrücken musicology”, but also as the “singer of a musical seizure of power ” because of his activities under National Socialism.

Life

Müller-Blattau, son of a senior teacher, took part in the First World War. He studied musicology with Friedrich Ludwig at the University of Strasbourg , was trained in composition and conducting with Hans Pfitzner and organ with Ernst Münch . He later studied at the University of Freiburg , where Wilibald Gurlitt was his teacher. During his studies he became a member of the Wettina Freiburg choir and later the Rhenania Frankfurt choir . In 1920 he received his doctorate in musicology at the University of Freiburg with the thesis "Basics of a history of the fugue". In 1922 he completed his habilitation at the University of Königsberg and became director of the musicological seminar and academic music director in Königsberg. From 1924 he was also head of the Institute for School and Church Music. In 1928 he was appointed associate professor in Königsberg and became musical advisor to Ostmarken Rundfunk AG . In 1930 he became a member of the Königsberg learned society .

On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.536.556). In 1935 he took over a professorship for musicology in Frankfurt am Main . Since 1933 member of the SA , he worked in 1936 for the Research Association of German Ahnenerbe of the SS on Germanic heritage in German music . Heinrich Himmler contributed the preface to this. Also in 1936 he played an inglorious role in the removal of Wilibald Gurlitt by Friedrich Metz , the National Socialist rector of the University of Freiburg. In 1937 he was appointed Gurlitt's successor. From 1938 to 1942 he was the municipal music representative of Freiburg. From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War with interruptions . Together with the tenor Reinhold Hammerstein , Blattau, who sang baritone himself , recorded battle songs for the radio, such as “Earth creates the new” and “Holy Fatherland” by Heinrich Spitta or “The march of the column is booming” by H. Napiersky and others in 1941 he was appointed to the University of Strasbourg .

Müller-Blattau: History of German Music. Example of the Nazi ideology pasted over by the publisher in 1947 for further sale

After the Second World War he was from November 1946 a teacher at the secondary school and music lecturer at the Kusel Pedagogical Academy and then at the Kirchheimbolanden grammar school . In May 1952 he was appointed director of the Saarbrücken State Conservatory, where he founded the Institute for School Music. Since the winter semester of 1952/53, Müller-Blattau gave lectures at the Saarland University as a full professor (Professeur chargé d'enseignement) . After the Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany, he became professor of musicology at the Saarland University on April 1, 1958, and gave up the management of the University of Music. In 1963 he retired .

His book History of German Music was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone . Thereupon the Vieweg-Verlag pasted over numerous parts of the current fourth unchanged edition (1944), which z. B. about the "genius of the race" (p. 7), and the book could, as appropriately stamped copies prove, z. B. 1947 in the music store Stammer in Leipzig are sold on.

His son Wendelin Müller-Blattau (1922–2004) was also a professor of musicology at Saarland University.

Awards

Publications

  • 1922: Alsace a borderland of German music. The Rhine Bridge, Freiburg i. B.
  • 1923: Outlines of a history of the fugue. Musicology seminar, Königsberg i. Pr.
  • 1931: History of music in East and West Prussia from the time of the Order to the present. Counts and Unzer, Koenigsberg.
  • 1932: The German folk song. Hesse, Berlin.
  • 1932: Introduction to the history of music. Vieweg, Berlin.
  • 1934: The Horst Wessel song . In: Die Musik 26, 1934, p. 327ff.
  • 1938: Germanic heritage in German music. Widukindverlag [the SS], Berlin.
  • 1938: History of German Music. Chr. Friedrich Vieweg, Berlin.
  • 1949: Sounding home. Palatinate songbook for school and home. Kranz, Neustadt ad Haardt.
  • 1950: Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Creation. Reclam. Stuttgart.
  • 1951: Pocket dictionary of foreign and technical terms in music. Hesse, Berlin-Halensee, Wunsiedel.
  • 1955: There are three stars in the sky. The folk song collection of the young Goethe. Bärenreiter, Kassel, Basel.
  • 1966: On the diversity of music. Music history, music education, music maintenance. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br.
  • 1966: On the nature and development of modern musicology. Lecture. Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
  • 1968 with Hugo Moser : German songs of the Middle Ages from Walther von der Vogelweie to the Lochamer songbook: texts and melodies. Stuttgart.
  • 1969: Goethe and the masters of music. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert. Klett, Stuttgart.
  • 1969: Hans Pfitzner. Life path u. Creative harvest. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main.

literature

  • Thomas Phleps: A quiet, dogged and tenacious struggle for continuity - musicology in Nazi Germany and its past-political coping , in: Isolde v. Foerster et al. (Ed.), Music Research - National Socialism - Faschismus , Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488. online Uni Giessen
  • Walter Salmen (Hrsg.): Festgabe for Joseph Müller-Blattau on the 65th birthday. 2nd Edition. University and school book publisher, Saarbrücken 1962.
  • Christoph-Hellmut Mahling (ed.): For the 70th birthday of Joseph Müller-Blattau. Saarbrücken studies in musicology 1. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1966.
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945. CD-ROM lexicon. Kiel 2004, pp. 4748-4754.
  • Michael Custodis : Theodor W. Adorno and Joseph Müller-Blattau: Strategic Partnership. In: Albrecht Riethmüller (Ed.): Archive for Musicology . Vol. 66, issue 3. Stuttgart 2009, ISSN  0003-9292 .
  • Harald Lönnecker : The propagation of the German with Hans Joachim Moser and Joseph Maria Müller-Blattau , in: Sabine Mecking, Yvonne Wasserloos (Eds.): Inclusion and Exclusion. "German" Music in Europe and North America 1848–1945 , Göttingen 2016, pp. 171–194.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University protocols
  2. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Müller: On the history of the musicological institute at the Saarland University. , accessed December 5, 2012
  3. ↑ Harald Lönnecker : Between esotericism and science - the circles of the "völkisch Germanenkundlers" Wilhelm Teudt. Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 16. (PDF)
  4. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945. CD-ROM lexicon. Kiel 2004, pp. 4748-4754.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Updated edition. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 423.
  6. ↑ Manfred Schuler: On the nationalist thinking in German musicology . In: Isolde von Foerster, Christoph Hust, Christoph-Hellmut Mahling (eds.): Music research, fascism, national socialism. Lectures at the Schloss Engers conference . March 8-11, 2000. Society for Music Research, Mainz 2001, pp. 319–327.
  7. ↑ German Broadcasting Archive 1641062-18, -19, -20, 1890827-24, -25, -26 and -27.
  8. ^ Saarland biographies: Müller-Blattau Joseph Maria ( Memento from March 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-m.html

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personal data
SURNAME Müller-Blattau, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller-Blattau, Joseph Maria; Müller-Blattau, Joseph M .; Müller-Blattau, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Colmar
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1976
Place of death Saarbrücken