Eva Renate Wutta
Eva Renate Wutta , née Blechschmidt , (born October 4, 1931 in Schleinitz ; † September 25, 2011 in Gröbenzell ) was a German librarian and musicologist .
Life
After studying music, musicology, Romance studies, Slavic studies and library studies, she obtained a diploma in musicology in 1956 with a thesis on Leopold Mozart's violin school . From 1956 to 1957 she worked as a library trainee, after passing the specialist examination (July 8, 1957) then from 1957 to 1961 as a senior librarian at the Berlin State Library .
As part of her work at the Berlin State Library, she was involved in the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales from 1959 to 1961 and also wrote her doctoral thesis, which was accepted in 1963 at the Free University of Berlin, on the musical collection of Princess Amalie of Prussia , the sister of Frederick the Great ( Amalienbibliothek ).
From 1963 to 1965 Wutta worked as a research assistant at the Dortmund City and State Library , from 1970 to 1981 then in school service at the grammar school in Lennestadt and from 1981 to 1994 again in the library service. Most recently, she headed the music library of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich as library councilor . She died in September 2011, leaving behind a daughter and a son.
plant
Wutta was considered a specialist in Prussian archives and libraries. Her dissertation, following on from Robert Eitner's earlier work (1884), provided the first scientific history and cataloging of the Amalienbibliothek, an important collection of autographs, copies and prints of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons, but also by numerous French and Italian composers. Its catalog comprises 680 numbers and records all music items that were once in the possession of Amalia, whereby the older lists of Carl Friedrich Zelter (1800–1802) and Eitner were evaluated for items that can no longer be found . The preparation of the dissertation was made more difficult by the fact that 266 items from the catalog were in the East Berlin holdings of the State Library and could no longer be used for corrections after the construction of the Berlin Wall . An excerpt from the dissertation together with the catalog prepared by Wutta appeared in print in 1965 and has remained the standard scientific work to this day, which she supplemented in this collection in 1989 with a publication on the sources of the Bach tradition.
From 1990 to 2002 she also published the Hasse Studies with Wolfgang Hochstein and Reinhard Wiesend in the Carus publishing house in Stuttgart.
Fonts
- The Amalien Library. Music library of Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723 - 1787). Historical classification and catalog with references to the writers of the manuscripts (= Berliner Studien zur Musikwissenschaft , 8). Merseburger, Berlin 1965
- Sources of the Bach tradition in the Amalien library in Berlin. With numerous illustrations of manuscripts and letters from Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723 - 1787). H. Schneider, Tutzing 1989, ISBN 3-7952-0578-6
literature
- Author's manual for music 1997/98 , Verlag E. Kuhn, Berlin 1997, p. 251, ISBN 3-928864-44-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eva Renate Wutta, obituary notice , accessed on May 12, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wutta, Eva Renate |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blechschmidt, Eva Renate (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist, librarian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schleinitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 2011 |
| Place of death | Groebenzell |