Friedrich Adolf Steinhausen

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Friedrich Adolf Steinhausen (born July 13, 1859 in Potsdam , † July 23, 1910 in Boppard ) was a German doctor who dealt intensively with the physical conditions of making music.

Life

Steinhausen studied medicine in Berlin and became senior physician general and corps physician in the 16th Prussian Army Corps . Stations in his career were Hanover (1903), Danzig (1907) and Metz (1908).

Originally a violinist, he dealt with questions of music-making at an early stage and looked for new, scientifically sound forms of optimal handling of this instrument.

His work on piano technique, which is still significant today, was created in collaboration with the pianist Tony Bandmann (1848–1907) and was directed against the outdated notion of viewing it as pure “finger technique”. Steinhausen's more complex, body-related perspective found numerous supporters, including the physiologist Otto Fischer (1861–1916) and the piano pedagogue Ludwig Deppe (1828–1890), his pupil Elisabeth Caland (1862–1929) and Rudolf Maria Breithaupt (1873–1945) if they did not always share all of Steinhausen's views.

Works

  • Studies on shoulder joint movements , in: Archive for Anatomy and Physiology , 1899
  • The physiology of bowing on string instruments , Leipzig 1903 - 4th edition, ed. by Arnold Schering , 1920
  • The laws of bowing on the string instruments , in: Die Musik , vol. 3.4 (volume 12), first September issue 1903, pp. 350–354 ( digitized version )
  • The physiological foundations of musical instrumental technology , in: Die Musik , 1904
  • The physiological errors and the redesign of piano technology , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1905 - 2nd ed. Ed. by Ludwig Riemann, 1913 ( digitized version )
  • About tremors in instrumental technique , in: Der Klavier-Lehrer , vol. 28, no. 11 of June 1, 1905, pp. 167-169 ( digital copy )
  • Introduction, in: Tony Bandmann, The Weight Technique of Piano Playing , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1907, pp. 1–10 ( digitized version)
  • Nervous system and insolation, draft of a clinical pathology of caloric diseases , Berlin: Hirschwald, 1910

literature

  • Hugo Riemanns Musik-Lexikon , 10th edition, edited by Alfred Einstein , Berlin: Max Hesse, 1922, p. 1240
  • Mathias Matuschka, The Renewal of Piano Technique according to Liszt , Munich: Katzbichler, 1987, p. 39ff.
personal data
SURNAME Steinhausen, Friedrich Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1910
Place of death Boppard