Fritz Bose

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Fritz Bose (born July 26, 1906 in Messenthin , † August 16, 1975 in Berlin ) was a German musicologist . He dealt with acoustics, music ethnology and psychology.

Life

Bose was born in 1906 in Messenthin in the Randow district (since Messenthin was incorporated into Stettin from 1939 to 1945 , "Stettin" is also known as the place of birth). Bose attended the Bismarck secondary school in Stettin from 1913 until he graduated from high school in 1925. He then studied ethnomusicology with Erich Moritz von Hornbostel at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . After Hornbostel's emigration he took over his courses . He was a member of the NS student union and the NSDAP . Bose was in Berlin in 1934 with a dissertation on the music Uitoto doctorate . In 1935 he set up a music department at the Institute for Sound Research at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, which he headed until 1945. There he published a catalog of the collected music recordings.

In 1936 he went with Yrjö von Grönhagen , department head in the Research Association of German Ahnenerbe , on a trip to Karelia to meet Finnish "magicians" and shamans and to collect and record their songs. For the research community he dealt with the replication of Germanic Lurs since 1937/1938 , but encountered difficulties. Bose's tasks included collecting and caring for instruments and songs from the Norse music. For Heinrich Himmler , he was supposed to give expert opinions on song compositions.

In 1939 he completed his habilitation with the thesis "Sound styles as racial characteristics".

Between July and December 1940, under the direction of Alfred Quellmalz , he was involved in a folk music collection in South Tyrol on behalf of the Research Association of German Ahnenerbe . He had an AEG K4 magnetophone with which he made 461 sound recordings of folk songs and instrumental music in the area around Sterzing and Bruneck . 412 recordings were preserved after the end of the Second World War and are now in the archive of the Regensburg University Library . During the Second World War he was called up for military service in 1940. He was taken prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1947.

After the Second World War he worked at the State Institute for Music Research in West Berlin. There he headed the historical department from 1953 and the folklore department from 1966. From 1963 Fritz Bose published the “yearbook for musical folk and ethnology” and offered lectures in music and ethnology at the Technical University of Berlin , initially as a lecturer and from 1966 as an honorary professor .

In 1959 he was one of the founders of the German Society for Music of the Orient , and from 1967 to 1972 President of the Society. From 1965 he headed the newly founded commission for song, music and dance research of the German Society for Folklore together with Rolf Wilhelm Brednich and Ernst Klusen . In 1969 he became its managing director.

Fritz Bose is the father of the music teacher, songwriter and choir conductor Jens-Andrees Bose .

Fonts

  • Music for you. Guide for music lovers and radio listeners. Scherl, Berlin 1934.
  • Songs of the peoples. The music records of the Institute for Sound Research at the University of Berlin. Catalog and introduction. M. Hesse, Berlin 1936.
  • Musical ethnology. Atlantis, Freiburg im Breisgau 1953.

literature

  • Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, Pamela M. Potter: Bose, Fritz. In: Stanley Sadie, John Tyrrell, George Grove (Eds.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 4, 2nd Edition, Macmillan, Grove; London, New York 2001, pp. 51f.
  • Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 95-97.

Individual evidence

  1. Pamela M. Potter: From Jewish Exile in Germany to German Scholar in America. Alfred Einstein's emigration. In: Reinhold Brinkmann , Christoph Wolff (Ed.): Driven Into Paradise. The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States. University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London 1999, ISBN 0-520-21413-7 , pp. 312-313.
  2. ^ Sound archive. Musicology seminar. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, accessed on August 30, 2014 .
  3. Dennis Krüger: The occult 3rd Reich. SS research projects between German studies , occult science and secret weapon technology. Forsite Verlag, Bottrop 2011, p. 138
  4. ^ Michael H. Kater: The "Ahnenerbe" of the SS, 1933–1945. A contribution to the cultural policy of the Third Reich. (= Studies on Contemporary History. Vol. 6), Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57950-5 , p. 409, no. 16.
  5. ^ Franz Kofler, Walter Deutsch : Dances and pieces from the tape collection of Dr. Alfred Quellmalz (1940–42). In: Walter Deutsch: Corpus musicae popularis Austriacae. Complete edition of folk music in Austria. Böhlau, Vienna Cologne Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-205-98718-7 , pp. 20f.
  6. ^ Regensburg folk music portal. (No longer available online.) Regensburg University Library, archived from the original on July 7, 2012 ; Retrieved November 28, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de
  7. On the history of musicology at the TU Berlin. Retrieved December 27, 2015 .
  8. Commission for Research into Popular Musical Cultures. In: www.dgv.org. German Folklore Society , accessed on December 27, 2015 .