Carl Gregor Duke of Mecklenburg

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Carl Gregor Herzog zu Mecklenburg (born March 14, 1933 in Remplin ; † July 23, 2018 in Hechingen ) was a German music and art scholar.

Life

Carl Gregor Herzog zu Mecklenburg, whose father received the family name Herzog zu Mecklenburg through an adoption in 1928 , was the youngest of four children of Georg Herzog zu Mecklenburg (1899–1963) - from a branch of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz family - and Irene von Rajevsky (widowed Countess Tolstoy, 1892–1955). His great-grandfather was already in Russian service from 1850. His parents fled Russia after the October Revolution and he grew up in Remplin Castle on the Mecklenburg Lake District until the castle fell victim to a fire in 1940. The family was subjected to reprisals under National Socialism. In addition, his father Georg Herzog zu Mecklenburg converted to Catholicism in 1920. The family then moved to Berlin-Grunewald , and after their house was destroyed by bombing in February 1944, at the invitation of Margarethes von Hohenzollern, the wife of the then head of the Sigmaringen house, Friedrich von Hohenzollern , to Sigmaringen in March 1944 .

Carl Gregor was already interested in art and music through his parents and from 1954 studied art history, musicology and history at the Zimmermann Conservatory in Konstanz and at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where he graduated with a master's degree in art history in 1964 and received his doctorate in 1968. He then worked as an assistant for art history at the Technical University of Stuttgart and then at the State Monument Preservation Office in Tübingen . From 1974 until his retirement in 1992 he was director of the Diocesan Museum in Rottenburg am Neckar , for which he also wrote a catalog.

After his mother's death, his father married Charlotte, Archduchess of Austria (1921–1989), a daughter of the last Austrian Emperor Karl I and his wife Zita von Bourbon-Parma in 1956 .

Since 1965 he was married to Maria Margarethe Princess of Hohenzollern (1928-2006), the daughter of Franz Joseph Prince of Hohenzollern-Emden (1891-1964) and his wife Maria Alix Princess of Saxony (1901-1990), whom he has been since his Youth knew.

Villa Silberburg in Hechingen (2007)

He lived in the Villa Silberburg in the Hechinger Fürstengarten. The marriage remained childless.

Act

The doctor of arts was best known for his bibliographies on jazz literature, which - supplemented by his own research - are critically evaluated in the two books on styles of jazz . He had been interested in jazz since his youth and played as a drummer in an amateur band ( JCAmateure ), which u. a. performed in the Sigmaringen court theater . He started his scientific occupation with jazz with the investigation The Theory of Blues in Modern Jazz with Waldemar Scheck 1963. From 1968 to 1971 he organized the Hechinger Jazz Talks in the Villa Eugenia , which he secured through a citizens' initiative in the 1970s . In addition to his books on jazz, he also wrote works on art history and bibliographies on the German nobility (including novels and hunting memories). He also emerged as a painter.

Publications

music

  • Egyptian rhythm. Rhythms and rhythm instruments in today's Egypt. Heitz, Strasbourg / Baden-Baden 1960.
  • Bibliography of some border areas of musicology. Heitz, Baden-Baden 1962.
  • [with Waldemar Scheck:] The theory of blues in modern jazz. Heitz, Strasbourg / Baden-Baden 1963; Koerner, Baden-Baden 1971. ISBN 3-87320-545-9
  • International Jazz Bibliography. Jazz Books from 1919 to 1968. Heitz, Strasbourg / Baden-Baden 1969.
    • 1970 supplement to International Jazz Bibliography & International drum & percussion bibliography. Universal Edition, Graz / Vienna 1971.
    • 1971/72/73 supplement to International jazz bibliography (ijb) & selective bibliography of some jazz background literature & bibliography of two subjects previously excluded. Universal-Edition, Graz 1975. ISBN 3-7024-0075-3
  • Jazz styles. From ragtime to Chicago style. Universal-Edition, Vienna 1973. ISBN 3-7024-0058-3
  • Styles of modern jazz. From swing to free jazz. Koerner, Baden-Baden 1979. ISBN 3-87320-563-7
  • [with Hans Hickmann:] Catalog d'enregistrements de musique folklorique égyptienne. Précédé d'un rapport préliminaire sur les traces de l'art musical pharaonique dans la mélopée de la vallée du Nil. Koerner, Baden-Baden 1979. ISBN 3-87320-537-8
  • [with Norbert Ruecker:] International bibliography of jazz books. 2 volumes. Koerner, Baden-Baden. ISBN 3-87320-567-X
    • Vol. 1: 1921-1949. 1983
    • Vol. 2: 1950-1959. 1988

art

  • Correggio in the German view of art from 1750 to 1850. With special consideration of early romanticism. Heitz, Baden-Baden / Strasbourg 1970, ISBN 3-87320-347-2
  • Flemish hunting still lifes by Frans Snyders and Jan Fyt . The hunting still life as an independent genre in its heyday. Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-490-31311-9
  • (Ed.): The Diocesan Museum in Rottenburg am Neckar. Paintings and sculptures. Catalog and style guide. Episcopal Ordinariate, Rottenburg 1978
  • Experience the landscape and noble country life. Introductions and bibliographies to understand the landscape and a German state from 1870 to the present. Propylaen-Verlag, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-549-07386-0
  • Garden and landscape yesterday and today. On the history of feelings in nature. PES edition, Haigerloch 1984, ISBN 3-89076-001-5

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Oskar Aanmoen: Duke Carl Gregor of Mecklenburg has died. In: Royal Central. July 24, 2018, accessed July 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ In 1944 he was interned by the National Socialists in Sachsenhausen and was only released in February 1945 at the urging of the papal nuncio.
  3. ^ Marriage on December 18, 1965, church wedding on April 23, 1966 at Hohenzollern Castle
  4. ↑ Passion for music and art. In: Südwest Presse . March 14, 2013, accessed July 21, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Duke of Mecklenburg, Carl Gregor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duke of Mecklenburg, Carl-Gregor Georg Friedrich Franz Heinrich Norbert Wenceslaus Johann-Nepomuk Clemens Maria de Mercede et omnes sancti (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music and art scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Remplin
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 2018
Place of death Hechingen