Friedrich Baser

Friedrich Baser (born February 24, 1893 in Metz ; † June 4, 1990 in Baden-Baden ) was a German musicologist and music critic .

Life

Baser studied music and theater studies in Linz, Leipzig and Munich. In 1926 he became a violinist in the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, but then switched to music criticism and was music editor of the Heidelberger Tagblatt until 1941; that year he joined the NSDAP. In 1943 he moved to Berlin, but returned to Baden the following year and again worked as a music critic for Baden newspapers.

Create

During the time of National Socialism , he wrote numerous essays in the spirit of National Socialist ideology in the synchronized magazine Die Musik . Later he preferred to work on topics related to Baden music history and published numerous local historical works.

Fonts

• Richard Wagner as herald of the Aryan world , in: Die Musik XXVI / 2 (December 1933), pp. 85–90
• Hector Berlioz and the Germanic soul , in: Die Musik XXVI / 4 (January 1934), pp. 259–263
• The music at the Heidelberg Reich Festival. The musical arrangement of the Thingspiel , in: Die Musik XXXVII (1935), pp. 838–840
• Music between races and peoples , in: Die Musik XXVIII / 6 (March 1936), pp. 407–412
• Musical Heidelberg since the Electors , Masters: Heidelberg 1934
• Great musicians in Baden-Baden , Schneider: Tutzing 1973
• Music at the court of the margraves of Baden , working group for city history: Baden-Baden 1976

literature

• Ernst Klee, The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 30

Web links

• [1] Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
• [2] Estate in the BSB Munich