Friedrich Gennrich

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Friedrich Gennrich (born March 27, 1883 in Colmar , † September 22, 1967 in Langen (Hesse) ) was a German musicologist and Romance philologist .

life and work

Gennrich studied musicology in Strasbourg with Friedrich Ludwig and Romance philology with Gustav Gröber , and in Paris with Joseph Bédier . He earned his doctorate with (ed.) Le Romans de la dame à la lycorne et du biau chevalier au lyon. An adventure novel from the first third of the 14th century (Halle a. S. 1908) and worked as a high school teacher, first in Strasbourg, from 1919 in Frankfurt am Main. There he completed his habilitation in musicology in 1927 and in Romance studies in 1929. From 1934 to 1964 he was an adjunct professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main and published numerous research results himself. His extensive estate was acquired by the Frankfurt University Library in 1980.

Further works (in selection)

  • Musicology and Romance Philology. A contribution to the evaluation of music as an auxiliary science, Halle as 1918
  • Rondeaux, Virelais and ballads from the end of the XII., The XIII. and the first third of the 14th century with the traditional melodies, 2 vol., Dresden 1921,1927
  • The musical performance of the old French chansons de geste. A literary-historical-musicological study, Halle as 1923
  • The old French red rouge. Literary-historical-musicological study, Halle a. P. 1925
  • Outline of a form theory of the medieval song as the basis of a musical form of the song, Halle as 1932, Tübingen / Darmstadt 1970
  • The Strasbourg School of Musicology. An experiment or a guide? Suggestions for clarifying fundamental questions, Würzburg 1940
  • Troubadours, Trouvères, Minne- und Meistergesang, Cologne 1951, 1960, Laaber 2010 ( Das Musikwerk 2)
  • (Ed.) Old French songs, Tübingen 1955
  • (Ed.) Bibliography of the oldest French and Latin motets, Darmstadt 1957
  • (Ed.) Lo gai saber. 50 selected troubadour songs. Melody, text, commentary, form theory and glossary, Darmstadt 1959
  • The old French Rondeau and Virelai in the 12th and 13th centuries, Langen near Frankfurt 1963
  • (Ed.) The counterfactor in the songwriting of the Middle Ages, Langen near Frankfurt 1965

literature

  • Werner Bittinger in: Die Musikforschung 21, 1968, pp. 417–421
  • Johann G. Schubert, in: Acta Musicologica 40, 1968, pp. 199-201
  • Peter Sühring : Participate and resist. On the unsuccessful double strategy of Friedrich Gennrich in 1940, in: Music Research, Fascism, National Socialism , Ed. Society for Music Research Kassel; Isolde v. Foerster et al. a. Are Music, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3924522065 , pp. 405-414

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Papers from the conference at Engers Castle March 8-11, 2000. Contributions by Ludwig Finscher , Winfried Baumgart , Pamela M. Potter and others
personal data
SURNAME Gennrich, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Colmar
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1967
Place of death Langen (Hesse)