Ernst Lichtenhahn

Ernst Lichtenhahn (born January 4, 1934 in Arosa ; † April 29, 2019 in Basel ) was a Swiss musicologist .

Lichtenhahn, whose father Fritz Lichtenhahn (1881–1935) was a doctor and head of a children's spa in the Arosa House Belmont, studied musicology, German literature and history at the University of Basel . In 1974 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the romantic conception of church music. From 1982 he worked - simultaneously with Max Lütolf - as a professor at the University of Zurich . From 1974 to 1995 he was President of the Swiss Music Research Society .

His research and publications particularly concerned the music and musical aesthetics of the 18th and 19th centuries, the music theater of the 20th century, the music-historical relations between France and Germany and the music ethnology of Africa .

Ernst Lichtenhahn was the brother of the actor Fritz Lichtenhahn , a great-great-nephew of Johann Karl Lichtenhahn and a great-great-great- nephew of Ernst Ludwig Lichtenhahn .

literature

Antonio Baldassarre, Patrick Müller, Susanne Kübler (eds.): Thinking music: Ernst Lichtenhahn on retirement. 16 contributions from his students. Lang, Bern et al. 2000, ISBN 3-906764-75-3 .

Web links

Literature by and about Ernst Lichtenhahn in the catalog of the German National Library
Peter Hagmann: Music and its environment. Ernst Lichtenhahn seventy. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 3, 2004, accessed on June 24, 2014.

Individual evidence

↑ Search, research - overcome boundaries: Obituary for Ernst Lichtenhahn. June 19, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 .
↑ Hans Danuser : Arosa - as it was then (1907-1928), Vol. 2, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 1998, pp. 41, 157, 200.
↑ Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was then (1928-1946), Vol. 3, self-published Danuser, Arosa 1999, p. 137.
↑ Central Presidents from the Beginning to the Present. Retrieved from the SMG website on June 24, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Lichtenhahn, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 4, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Arosa
DATE OF DEATH	April 29, 2019
Place of death	Basel

[1] Search, research - overcome boundaries: Obituary for Ernst Lichtenhahn. June 19, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 .

[2] Hans Danuser : Arosa - as it was then (1907-1928), Vol. 2, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 1998, pp. 41, 157, 200.

[3] Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was then (1928-1946), Vol. 3, self-published Danuser, Arosa 1999, p. 137.

[4] Central Presidents from the Beginning to the Present. Retrieved from the SMG website on June 24, 2014.