Eduard Krüger (music historian)

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Eduard Krüger (born December 9, 1807 in Lüneburg , † November 8, 1885 in Göttingen ) was a German musicologist , composer and philologist .

Life

Krüger received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1830 and then deepened his studies in Berlin . In 1832 he got a job as an assistant teacher at the grammar school in Emden , where he soon became rector, interrupted by a brief position at the old grammar school in Göttingen.

From 1838 he corresponded with Robert Schumann , who valued him as a skilled writer and won him over to work for his Neue Zeitschrift für Musik . The correspondence ended abruptly after Krüger criticized Schumann's opera Genoveva in 1851 . In the public controversy between Oswald Lorenz , pseudonym Hans Grobgedakt, on the subject of "organ tone and organ playing" with the main question "flexibility of the organ tone" or a "need for substantial changes in the organ tone", Krüger took sides for Lorenz, whom he did not know personally who, however, also wrote articles for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik .

From 1852 to 1859 Krüger was chief inspector of schools in Aurich for the whole of East Frisia .

In 1859 he found a job as an "unskilled worker" at the library of the University of Göttingen , where he was finally given a professorship in 1862 with the subject "Theory and History of Music". His most important student was Hugo Riemann , who received his doctorate in 1873. It was here that he began to publish the magazine Siona in 1876 in collaboration with his colleague Ludwig Schöberlein and Pastor Max Herold . Monthly for liturgy and church music.

Works (selection)

  • De Musicis graecorum organis circa Pindari tempora Florentibus , Diss. Phil. Goettingen 1830
  • Outline of the metrics of ancient and modern languages , Emden 1838
  • Contributions to the life and science of music , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1847 ( digitized version )
  • System der Tonkunst , Leipzig 1866 ( digitized version )
  • Musical psychology based on the instructions of Gervinus ' book " Handel and Shakespeare " , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1868
  • Musical letters from the most recent times , Münster 1870 ( digitized version )

Literature (selection)

  • Friedrich Chrysander , E. Krüger's musical letters from the most recent times , in: Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung , vol. 5 (1870), p. 4f. ( Digitized version )
  • Arthur Prüfer (Ed.), Correspondence between Carl von Winterfeld and Eduard Krüger , Leipzig: Seemann 1898 (with portrait)
  • Uwe Martin, An unknown Schumann autograph from the estate of E. Krüger , in: Die Musikforschung , Vol. 12 (1959), pp. 405-415
  • Kurt Hoppenrath, E. Krüger (1807-1885). Life and work of a music scholar Schumann tradition and New German school , diss. Phil. Göttingen 1964 (Maschr.)
  • Wolfgang Boetticher , Eduard Krüger as Professor of Music History , in: Musicology and Music Maintenance at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , ed. by Martin Staehelin , Göttingen 1987, pp. 78–89 ( digitized version )
  • Martin Tielke, Eduard Krüger as a trailblazer of the Bach and Handel renaissance , in: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities of Emden , vol. 72 (1992), pp. 170–206 (with portrait)

Web links

Wikisource: Eduard Krüger  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , No. 4 and No. 50 of June 19 and 22, 1843; Digital copy: Books Google