Eduard Bernoulli

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Eduard Bernoulli

Eduard Bernoulli (born November 6, 1867 in Basel ; † April 18, 1927 there ) was a Swiss musicologist from the family of scholars Bernoulli .

Life

Bernoulli studied musicology at the University of Leipzig and successfully completed his studies in 1898 with a doctorate. He later went to the University of Zurich as a private lecturer and completed his habilitation there in 1910. He accepted a position at the University of Leipzig and was professor of musicology there until 1921.

Bernoulli's fruitful collaboration with his teacher Georg Holz and his colleague Franz Saran culminated in 1901 when they were able to publish the Jena song manuscript . Bernoulli was instrumental in translating it into a modern musical notation.

Bernoulli died on April 18, 1927 in Basel at the age of 59.

Works

  • From humanist songbooks . Sendet, Walluf 1973 (reprint of the Leipzig 1910 edition)
  • The chorale notation for hymns and sequences in the later Middle Ages . Olms, Hildesheim 1966 (reprint of the Leipzig 1898 edition)
  • Jena song manuscript . Olms, Hildesheim 1966 (reprint of the Leipzig 1901 edition)
  • Old folk musical instruments in German-Swiss, especially in Basler representations. ( Digitized version )

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