Erich Katz

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Erich Katz (born July 31, 1900 in Posen , German Empire ; died July 30, 1973 in Santa Barbara (California) ) was a German-American musicologist , composer , music critic and musician .

Life

Katz was born as the son of the Jewish watchmaker Albert Katz and Grete Katz (née Schmerl). From 1907 to 1918 he attended in Berlin-Charlottenburg Kaiser-Friedrich-school and Herderschule and put 1918 Notabitur from. He then studied at the Stern Conservatory and at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin , and later in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he presented his dissertation, The Musical Concepts of Style of the 17th Century in 1926.

Katz married the pianist Adelheid Soltau in 1926 and in 1928 co-founded the Freiburg courses for music theory . Until 1933 he was also active as a music critic for the Freiburg newspaper . In 1938 Katz was captured and taken to the Dachau concentration camp . At this time the National Socialists released some prisoners on the condition that they leave Germany immediately, whereupon Katz fled to England with his daughter Hanna in 1939. He was interned and released to teach music at the Bunce Court School evacuated to Shropshire , which he did until 1943.

In 1943 Katz was able to emigrate to the United States, where he became professor of composition at the New York College of Music and later head of the department.

He taught at Santa Barbara City College from 1959 until his death. He was friends with the composers Carl Orff and Paul Hindemith , who also influenced his compositional style. Katz is seen as the driving force behind the early music movement in America. His estate is kept in the Erich Katz Collection at the Regis University Flute Music Center.

Publications

  • The musical style terms of the 17th century. Charlottenburg, 1926.
  • In the Beginning , in: American Recorder XIX / 4 (February 1979), pp. 155-156.
  • Recorder Folk Songs (Minus Flute) , (audio CD) Traditions Alive, LLC (April 2011).

literature

  • Betty Ransom Atwater, Erich Katz: Teacher - Composer, 1900-1973 , in: American Recorder , XIV / 4 (1973), pp. 115-134.
  • Constance Primus, Erich Katz: the Pied Piper Comes to America , in: American Music Research Center Journal , I (1991), pp. 1-19.
  • Mark Davenport, Carl Orff: the Katz Connection , in: American Recorder , XXXVI / 4 (1995), pp. 7-15 and 34-39.
  • Martha Bixler and Marcia Blue, Remembrances of Erich Katz (Interview with Hannah Katz) , in: American Recorder XXX / 2 (May 1989), pp. 54-55.
  • Peter Seibert, Remembrances of Erich Katz (Interview with Winifred Jaeger) , in: American Recorder XXX / 2 (May 1989), pp. 52-53.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 600
  • Katz, Erich , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 186

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Katz, The musical style concepts of the 17th century , Charlottenburg 1926, p. 91.
  2. ↑ Erich Katz's life data
  3. ↑ Erich Katz Collection Regis University Library. Accessed October 9, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Katz, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American musicologist, composer, music critic and musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1973
Place of death Santa Barbara (California)