Erich Doflein

Erich Doflein (born August 7, 1900 in Munich , † October 29, 1977 in Stuttgart ) was a German musicologist and music editor.

Life

Erich Doflein received his instrumental music training from Max Auerbach , Heinrich Kaminski and Ernst Praetorius (1880–1946). He studied musicology with Max Schneider , art history with Wilhelm Pinder and philosophy with Richard Hönigswald in Breslau and Munich. In 1924 he received his doctorate from the University of Wroclaw with the dissertation "On Shape and Style in Music". He completed his studies with Wilibald Gurlitt and Hermann Erpf in Freiburg.

In 1928 Erich Doflein co-founded a private institute for the training of music teachers in Freiburg. From 1941 to 1944 he taught at the Music Academy in Breslau. In 1947 he became professor and founding director of the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg im Breisgau, where he worked until 1965. In 1948 he helped found the Institute for New Music and Music Education in Bayreuth, which later moved to Darmstadt and of which he was President from 1956 to 1960.

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Erich Doflein was particularly active in the field of music education. Until the publication of the first volumes of the "Geigen-Schulwerk" (1932), violin schools had mainly consisted of etudes composed by the respective author, with only a few and mostly musically insignificant additions to pieces by other composers. The violin school of Joseph Joachim and Andreas Moser (1905), which largely relied on the practice material of older violin schools, offered a first, but still cautious, approach to expanding the practice material . Erich Doflein and his wife Elma offered in their six-volume “Geigen-Schulwerk” , of which only five were published, for the first time practice material based primarily on actual compositions from the Renaissance to the modern age. This made the work a model for all later violin schools, which often adopted the most tried and tested pieces from it. Doflein encouraged many of the most important composers of his time to compose rich literature suitable for violin students, such as Paul Hindemith or Béla Bartók with his 44 duos for two violins (1931). Many of these pieces appeared in the “Geigen-Schulwerk” or in related violin pedagogical compilations published by Doflein.

Erich Doflein was the editor of many practical music editions for various music publishers. He concentrated above all on first editions or first new editions of the compositions of hitherto largely unexplored composers.

literature

• Hariolf Oberer (Ed.): Erich Doflein. Shape and style in music . Leipzig: Gudrun Schröder 1987 (Music aesthetic writings according to Kant 3), ISBN 978-3-926196-03-3 .
• Lars Ulrich Abraham (Ed.): Erich Doflein: Festschrift for the 70th birthday (August 7, 1970) . Mainz: Schott 1972.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Doflein in the catalog of the German National Library