Ernest H. Sanders

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Ernest Helmut Sanders (born December 4, 1918 in Hamburg as Ernst Helmut Salomon ; died January 13, 2018 in New York City ) was an American music historian of German-Jewish origin who was particularly interested in polyphony in English and French music of the 13th and 14th centuries.

Life

Born into an upper-class family of Jewish descent as the son of the banker Paul Salomon and his wife Lucie, Sanders attended the Hamburg Johanneum from 1929 , where u. a. the later physicist Wolfgang Panofsky was one of his classmates. Despite growing resistance in the National Socialist state, he passed the Abitur examination in 1937. Sanders emigrated to the United States in 1938 and became a US citizen in 1943 . His parents, who had remained in Germany, committed suicide together in 1941. After completing his military service, Sanders studied piano from 1947 at the New York Juilliard School with Irwin Freundlich . In 1950 he moved to Columbia University to pursue further musicological studies , where he received his doctorate in 1963 and was a professor from 1972 to 1986. In 1965, Sanders received a Guggenheim grant . He had two children with his wife Marion (originally Marianne).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • French and English Polyphony of the 13th and 14th Centuries (=  Variorum Collected Studies Series . Volume 637 ). Ashgate, Aldershot et al. a. 1998, ISBN 0-86078-777-X (collection of articles).
  • Heil und Unheil: A Hamburg Family 1904–1941 . Edition Andreae, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-936232-51-6 .

Music prints

  • Ernest H. Sanders (Ed.): English Music of the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries (=  Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century . Band 14 ). Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, Monaco 1979.
  • Frank Ll. Harrison, Ernest H. Sanders, et al. Peter M. Lefferts (Ed.): English Music for Mass and Offices (I) and Music for Other Ceremonies (II) (=  Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century . Band 16-17 ). Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, Monaco (1983-1986).

Essays

  • The role of the English polyphony of the Middle Ages in the development of the cantus firmus movement and tonality structure . In: Archives for Musicology . tape 24 , no. 1 , 1967, p. 24-53 , JSTOR : 930313 .
  • The Medieval Motet . In: Wulf Arlt, Ernst Lichtenhahn u. Hans Oesch (Ed.): Genres of Music in Individual Representations: Commemorative Leo Schrade . Francke, Bern a. Munich 1973, p. 497-573 .

literature

  • Lefferts, Peter M. (Ed.): Studies in Medieval Music: Festschrift for Ernest H. Sanders (=  Current Musicology . Volume 45-47 ). Department of Music, Columbia University, New York 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernest H. Sanders: Obituaries. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 20, 2018, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Entry on stolpersteine-hamburg.de
  3. ↑ Ernest H. Sanders, 1918-2018. Department of Music, Columbia University, January 16, 2018, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ernest H. Sanders. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed January 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sanders, Ernest H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanders, Ernest Helmut (full name); Salomon, Ernst Helmut (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music historian of German-Jewish origin
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2018
Place of death New York City