Edwin von der Nüll

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Edwin von der Nüll (born October 13, 1905 in Berlin ; † April or May 1945 near Potsdam ) was a German musicologist and music journalist . Today he is considered a Bartók specialist among experts . As a music journalist he became known through the phrase "Wunder Karajan" about Herbert von Karajan , with which he opened one of his reviews.

Life

Edwin von der Nüll studied musicology at the Berlin University of Music . His lecturers included Arnold Schering , Georg Schünemann , Johannes Wolf and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel . His doctoral thesis Béla Bartók. A contribution to the morphology of new music appeared in Halle in 1930. It was the first monograph on Bartók. Another full-text was published in 1932 with Moderne Harmonik . In addition, he published a number of essays that dealt mainly with new music . He was a regular author in the journal Melos . Von der Nüll was about to embark on a university career when the seizure of power took place in 1933 and the National Socialists came to power. It has not been proven that he, as an advocate of “ Bolshevik ” composers like Arnold Schönberg , Paul Dessau or Kurt Weill , voluntarily renounced or was forced to pursue such a career. During the time of National Socialism , only the essay " Klingendes Mittelalter" appeared in the Neue Musikblatt , the synchronized successor to Melos .

Instead, von der Nüll became a music journalist and earned his living as a music editor at BZ am Mittag as well as at Berliner Tageblatt and Stern . In October 1938 he published the article “Wunder Karajan” in the BZ about a performance of Tristan and Isolde in the Berlin State Opera . The exuberant discussion of Herbert von Karajan's director made the thirty-year-old conductor famous. His headline became a household word when it came to the conductor. Presumably, however, it did not come from his pen, but rather went back to General Director Heinz Tietjen and Hermann Göring , who wanted to promote Karajan's career at the expense of Wilhelm Furtwängler . Furtwängler had fallen out of favor as defender of Paul Hindemith .

From 1940 von der Nüll was drafted and served in the Air Force's music department . There he was allowed to continue his musicological activity and was able to publish his third book Lebendige Musik in 1943 . It was also his last work. Von der Nüll fell in the last days of the Second World War near Potsdam.

Musicological appreciation

Friedrich Geiger , Professor of Musicology at the University of Hamburg, examined Edwin von der Nüll's work for the anthology Music Research - Fascism - National Socialism . He referred to von der Nüll as a musicologist, "who is only known to a small group of specialists as a Bartók expert" and explored the question of how a musicologist who previously advocated more communist and socialist composers suddenly found himself in his late work Party level could move. Von der Nüll was never a staunch National Socialist, but he later came to terms with the regime, which always remained suspicious of him. In 1939, for example, the Rosenberg Office sent inquiries to the Gestapo about von der Nülle's political activities before the seizure of power. Geiger finds the unifying element in the anti-democratic attitude of von der Nülls and in the concept of the national community . His example shows that New Music was also a topic for the National Socialists and was just as instrumentalized as other cultural products at that time.

Works

Entire fonts

  • Béla Bartók. A contribution to the morphology of new music . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1930, DNB 575276215 , OCLC 30001985 (120 pages).
  • The development of modern harmony . Hendel, Halle (Saale) 1931, OCLC 251868091 (Philosophical dissertation [University] Berlin December 7, 1931, 110 pages).
    • in bookshops as: Moderne Harmonik (= handbooks of music education ), F. Kistner & CFW Siegel, Leipzig 1932, OCLC 5757318 .
  • Lively music . Schwarzhäupter, Leipzig 1944, OCLC 247489240 (91 pages, with music examples, with a special edition for the Air Force).

Essays

  • On Bartók's composition technique . In: Musikblätter des Anbruch 1928: Volume 10, pp. 278–282.
  • Béla Bartók . In: Musikblätter des Anbruch 1928: Volume 10, pp. 408-410.
  • From conversations with four Hungarian musicians . In: Melos 1929: Volume 8, pp. 19-21
  • Style elements in Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle In: Melos 1929: 8th year pp. 226–231.
  • Synthetic hearing . In: Melos 1929: Volume 8, pp. 478-481.
  • Structural basic conditions of the Brahms sonata exposure in comparison to classical music . In: Die Musik 1929/1930: 22 years pp. 32–37
  • Problems and tasks of musicology In: Melos 1931: 10th year p. 91–92.
  • Overinterpretations . In: Melos 1931: Volume 10, pp. 123-125.
  • What do we know about new music? In: Die Musik 1931/32: 23 vol. Pp. 329–334
  • New music and new time . In: Melos 1932: Volume 11, pp. 39-40.
  • Béla Bartók, spirit and style. On the occasion of the 2nd piano concerto In: Melos 1933: Volume 12, pp. 135-138.
  • A dance book by Curt Sachs . In: Melos 1933: Volume 12, pp. 410-411.
  • Music in the corporate state . In: Melos 1934: Volume 13, pp. 43-47.
  • Sounding Middle Ages . In: Neues Musikblatt . 1936: Volume 15, p. 3

literature

  • Friedrich Geiger: Edwin von der Nüll - a Bartók researcher in the Nazi state . In: Society for Music Research (Ed.): Music Research - Fascism - National Socialism. Lectures at the Schloss Engers conference (March 8-11, 2000). 2nd, unchanged edition. Are Musik Verlag, Mainz 2004. ISBN 3-924522-06-5 , pp. 359–372

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ole Haas: Melos (1920-1934). Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM), accessed October 27, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Friedrich Geiger: Edwin von der Nüll - a Bartók researcher in the Nazi state . In: Society for Music Research (Ed.): Music Research - Fascism - National Socialism. Lectures at the Schloss Engers conference (March 8-11, 2000). 2nd, unchanged edition. Are Musik Verlag, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-924522-06-5 , pp. 359-361
  3. ^ Geiger: Edwin von der Nüll - a Bartók researcher in the Nazi state . P. 362
  4. ^ Geiger: Edwin von der Nüll - a Bartók researcher in the Nazi state . P. 363
  5. ^ Geiger: Edwin von der Nüll - a Bartók researcher in the Nazi state . P. 359
  6. ^ Geiger: Edwin von der Nüll - a Bartók researcher in the Nazi state . P. 363
  7. ^ Geiger: Edwin von der Nüll - a Bartók researcher in the Nazi state . P. 368
personal data
SURNAME Nüll, Edwin von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 1945 or May 1945
Place of death near Potsdam