Friedrich Schnapp
Friedrich Schnapp (born September 16, 1900 in Dortmund ; † July 26, 1983 ) was a German musicologist and Germanist .
Life
Schnapp studied piano , violin , musicology and German. At the request of Ferruccio Busoni's widow, he cataloged the composer's works. In 1939 he was responsible for the live broadcasts of Wilhelm Furtwängler's performances during the Second World War on the Deutschlandsender Berlin. In 1945 he moved to Hamburg and was responsible for all music broadcasts for the newly created Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation .
Here a professional and later personal friendship arose with the conductor Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt , the director of the NWDR orchestra. In 1965 he retired. The last eighteen years of his life he devoted to the study of music and occupied himself with E. T. A. Hoffmanns Musik und Korrespondenz, a new edition of the works of Mozart, the entire work of the Danish composer Franz Berwald and the orchestration of Liszt.
Works (selection)
- The personal relationships between Robert Schumann and Hans Christian Andersen , Robert Reinick and Friedrich Hebbel , Diss., Münster 1922
- as editor
- ETA Hoffmann's correspondence . Winkler Verlag, Munich 1969 (together with Hans von Müller).
- Koenigsberg – Leipzig. 1794-1814 .
- Berlin 1814-1822 .
- Subsequent, register .
- Writings on music / gleanings (poems, writings, records and fragments) , Munich: Winkler 1963, 1064 pp. (Revised edition of the gleanings 1993, ISBN 3-538-05278-6 )
- The musician ETA Hoffmann - A document volume , Hildesheim: Gerstenberg Verlag 1981, 747 pp.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Schnapp in the catalog of the German National Library
- biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Snap, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist and Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1983 |