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Ernst Bücken (born June 2, 1884 in Aachen , † July 28, 1949 in Overath ) was a German musicologist and university professor.

Life

Bücken, the son of a textile factory director, began studying law in Bonn . After moving to Munich University , he studied musicology with Adolf Sandberger , piano with Walter Braunfels and Anna Hirzel-Langenhan and composition with Walter Courvoisier . He also attended lectures in German and philosophy with Franz Muncker , Georg von Hertling , Oswald Külpe and Ernst von Aster . With his dissertation on Anton Reicha , his life and his compositions , he was awarded Dr. phil. PhD . In 1920 he completed his habilitation in Cologne and was appointed associate professor at the University of Cologne in 1925 and taught in Cologne until the war years. From 1936 on, Bücken was also a lecturer at the school music department of the Cologne University of Music and Dance .

The "Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft" ("Bücken-Psalter"), which he published between 1927–1934 and provided with some of his own contributions, was intended to support similar projects in literary and art studies.

During the Weimar Republic , Bücken was a member of the center for a short time . After the National Socialists came to power , he joined the NSDAP and was registered with the party number 2.026.645 with effect from May 1, 1933 . In 1933 he also became a member of the German Academy . In the following years he joined the Nazi lecturers' association and published various system-compliant writings, including 1934 music of the German kind , appeared in the Writings on Völkische Bildung or in the same year a contribution in the West German observer Aufbruch in der Musikwissenschaft. Against unconditional intellectualism - music politics as a point of view , in which he spoke of the “difficult struggle of our ethnic-racial forces with other national powers”. In the winter semester of 1934/35 he gave a series of lectures on the decomposition and reconstruction of music since Wagner . As part of the 1938 Reichsmusiktage , he gave a lecture on music style, music politics and music culture at the musicological conference . In his Musik der Deutschen, a cultural history of German music , published in 1941 , he hardly went into the development of music in Germany after 1933, but, according to Fred K. Prieberg, he adhered to “the music-political guidelines of the regime”, whereby on p. 294 finds the following passage in which "Jewish names are mentioned only for the purpose of negative evaluation":

“(...) Pathological phenomena were the musical styles from Expressionism and Atonality to Futurism and Constructivism, which could establish themselves more easily and quickly in the cultural organism, which was shaken and weakened by the lost war than in a normal state. 'Inventors' as well as main promoters of these musical currents artificially stimulated to contemporary events were all Jews, who at that time saw 'their' great musical era dawning. No German musical genius was greeted with such fanfare by his pioneers as the half-breed Franz Schreker by his racial comrade Paul Bekker . No really great pioneer has been celebrated like Arnold Schönberg (...) "

In 1945, Bücken was retired.

Bückens Musik der Deutschen (1941) was included in the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet zone of occupation in 1946 . His book Musik aus deutscher Art (Schaffstein, Cologne 1934), published in 1934, was included in the list of literature to be sorted out in the GDR in 1952/3.

Works (selection)

  • (Ed.) Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft , 10 volumes, 1927–1934.
  • Anton Reicha: his life and his compositions , dissertation Munich 1912.
  • The heroic style in the opera , Leipzig 1924.
  • (Ed.) The great masters of music , 12 volumes, Potsdam: Athenaion 1932–1939.
  • German-style music , Cologne 1934.
  • The music of the nations - a music history , 1937 ( Kröner's pocket edition, vol. 131)
  • Dictionary of Music , Leipzig 1940 ( Dieterich Collection, Vol. 20).
  • Music of the Germans , Cologne 1941.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, p. 814.
  2. ^ Willi Kahl: Bücken, Ernst , in: The music in history and present, CD-Rom edition, p. 10447.
  3. ↑ a b Gernot Gabel and Wolfgang Schmitz (Red.): Cologne collectors and their book collections in the Cologne University and City Library . University and City Library, Cologne 2003, p. 184.
  4. ^ Quotation from Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, pp. 814–815.
  5. ↑ Thomas Phleps: A quiet, dogged and tenacious struggle for continuity - musicology in Nazi Germany and coping with past politics , in: Isolde v. Foerster et al. (Ed.), Music Research - National Socialism - Fascism , Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488. online Uni Giessen
  6. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, p. 815.
  7. ^ Quotations from Fred K. Prieberg, in: Handbuch German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, p. 815.
  8. ↑ Quoted in Fred K. Prieberg: Handbuch German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, p. 815.
  9. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1946 .
  10. ^ List of the literature to be discarded 1953 .
personal data
SURNAME Bend over, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1949
Place of death Overath