Eugene Schmitz

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Eugen Schmitz (born July 12, 1882 in Neuburg adDonau ; † July 10, 1959 in Leipzig ) was a German musicologist and critic .

The descendant of the violin virtuoso, composer and court music director Louis Spohr first studied law in Munich , then music and musicology with Anton Beer-Walbrunn , Adolf Sandberger and Theodor Kroyer . There he published the longer article on Franz Lachner’s centenary in 1903 in the Munich newspaper. He received his doctorate in 1905 and was a music critic for the Münchner Allgemeine Zeitung . After studying in Italy, he worked as a private lecturer in Munich from 1909 , where he completed his habilitation in musicology in 1910, and was director of the Salzburg Mozarteum from 1914 to 1915 . In 1915 he went to Dresden , was the music editor of the Dresdner Nachrichten until 1939 and taught from 1916 as a lecturer, from 1918 as a professor at the Technical University of Musicology. From 1939 to 1955 he headed the Peters Music Library in Leipzig . Eugen Schmitz was NSDAP member No. 2,442,825 and signed the declaration of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler in November 1933 . He wrote for the Dresdner Nachrichten and the Nazi magazine Musik im Kriege .

Fonts

chronologically

  • For Franz Lachner's centenary birthday. Munich newspaper of April 2, 1903
  • Hugo Wolf (Musicians-Biographies Volume 26 / Universal Library No. 4853), Leipzig 1906
  • Richard Strauss as a music dramatist. An aesthetically critical study. Munich 1907 ( digitized version )
  • Richard Wagner (Science and Education Volume 55), Leipzig 1909, 1918
  • The theory of harmony as theory, aesthetics and history of musical harmony (Kösel Collection, Volume 49), Kempten / Munich 1911, 1917
  • Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina (Breitkopf & Härtel's Music Books / Little Musicians Biographies), Leipzig 1914
  • Orlando di Lasso (Breitkopf & Härtel's Music Books / Little Musicians Biographies), Leipzig 1915
  • Musical aesthetics. (Handbuch der Musiklehre. XIII), 1915
  • Schubert's impact on German music up to Hugo Wolf and Bruckner . Leipzig 1954
  • Orlando di Lasso , Leipzig 1954
  • Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina , Leipzig 1954
  • The mighty heap (music library for everyone No. 4), Leipzig 1955
  • Unwilted folk song style. JAP Schulz and his “Lieder im Volkston” , Leipzig 1956.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Seeger : Musiklexikon Personen A – Z / Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig (1981), pages 708 ff.
  2. ^ F. Prieberg, Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , 2004, p. 9437
  3. ^ German Institute for Newspaper Studies Berlin (ed.): Handbook of the German daily press. (4th edition), Carl Duncker Verlag, Berlin 1932, p. 316.
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and critic
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuburg on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1959
Place of death Leipzig