Fritz Dietrich (musicologist)

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Fritz Dietrich (born February 13, 1905 in Pforzheim ; † January 1945 at Stablak , East Prussia ) was a German musicologist and composer .

Life

After finishing school in Pforzheim, Dietrich first turned to the natural sciences for a semester at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , but then decided on musicology. From 1925 he studied in Freiburg im Breisgau with Wilibald Gurlitt and Heinrich Besseler . He followed the latter to Heidelberg University in 1928 , where Besseler succeeded Hans Joachim Moser . For a short time Dietrich also studied in Leipzig at the State Conservatory with Karl Straube .

After receiving his doctorate from Besseler on the history of the German organ choir in the 17th century , Dietrich was an assistant at the musicology seminar in Heidelberg from 1931 to 1934. He completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 1935 on the subject of musical orders, their design methods and their historical changes . However, Dietrich never worked as a private lecturer, as he was not granted a teaching permit, probably also because of his wife, who was considered a quarter Jew according to the racist Nuremberg laws . Nevertheless, during the National Socialist era , he composed and arranged various types of everyday music in line with the National Socialist ideology, including an arrangement of the Horst Wessel song for piano, which he recorded together with other arrangements in the Comrades, we march collection in 1935 . In 1937 he composed a maypole dance , a song set for girls' choir, folk choir, two violins and bass.

In the thirties Dietrich worked for the Bärenreiter publishing house and published a number of smaller issues with music for amateurs.

During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was last corporal in the Fortress MG Battalion 75. Since January 1945 Dietrich has been missing on the Eastern Front in the area around Heiligenbeil near Stablak.

Among other things, Dietrich wrote music for organ and recorder as well as vocal music , including a Struwwelpeter cantata. He played the piano , organ, oboe and viola himself .

Works

(BA = Bärenreiter edition)

Compositions:

  • Ten little marches for two recorders in unison. BA 859.
  • Fourteen small play wheels for two recorders spaced a fifth apart . BA 864.
  • Long live the soldiers. Soldiers songs for three identical flutes or pipes. 1936 at the latest. BA 964.
  • German marches for three identical flutes or pipes and drums. 1936. BA 966.
  • Sonatina in C for recorder and piano. BA 980.
  • Ten little waltzes for two recorders in unison. BA 1035.
  • When all Brünlein flow , variations for two choir flutes and alto flute. BA 1254.
  • Three small suites for two choir flutes and an alto flute . BA 1255.
  • Graciously grant us peace for four mixed voices / In you, Lord, I hoped for three mixed voices. Small BA 1601.
  • Elements of organ chorale improvisation
  • The little lark

Fonts:

  • History of the German Organ Choir in the 17th Century (1932)
  • Music and Time (1933)
  • Elements of organ chorale improvisation. Attempt a short guide to improvising the chorale prelude. Kassel 1935

Scientific articles:

  • Forms of analogy in Bach's Tokkats and Preludes for the Organ . Bach Yearbook (1931) 51–71

Collections edited by Dietrich at Bärenreiterverlag:

  • Heinrich Albert. Songs for a singing voice and accompaniment by a keyboard instrument or lute. Edited in selection (1932). BA 569
  • The Hohenfriedberger and other old marches composed for piano four hands. BA 1001.
  • Lantern, lantern, sun, moon and stars Folk songs for children in very simple movements for piano. BA 1003.
  • Our Christmas carols for singing on the piano, with a melody instrument (flute, violin) at will. BA 1004.
  • Old German dance music from Nörmiger's tablature, arranged in 1598 for flute (or another melody instrument) and piano. (1937) BA 1010.
  • Little shepherd's book for Christmas to sing and play for c "and f" recorder. (1937) BA 1106.
  • Sociable songs from the German folk heritage. For singing on the piano, with a melody instrument (flute, violin) at will. BA 1141.

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Rieber, memories of Fritz Dietrich . Music & Church (1953) 237.
  • Walter Blankenburg, Fritz Dietrich in memory . Music & Church (1955) 81.
  • Eckhard John, The Myth of the German in German Music: Musicology and National Socialism . In The Freiburg University in the Time of National Socialism , Ploetz (1991). Ed. John Eckhard et al.
  • Thomas Schipperges (2005), The Heinrich Besseler Files. Musicology and science policy in Germany 1928 to 1949 (series of publications by the Society for Music History in Baden-Württemberg), Munich: Strube-Verlag 2005 [488 pages].

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 1169.
  2. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 1170.
  3. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 1172.
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH January 1945
Place of death Eastern Front