Günther Kraft
Günther Kraft (born April 2, 1907 in Suhl , † September 20, 1977 in Weimar ) was a German musicologist and university professor .
Life
Kraft studied musicology, German literature and art history in Jena from 1935 to 1937 and musicology and music education in Berlin from 1937 to 1940 . In 1938 he received his doctorate in Jena on the life and work of Johannes Steuerlein , in 1940 he passed the state examination for artistic teaching at secondary schools and became a student trainee . From 1941 he conducted landscape research in Thuringia , which he continued in 1946 after serving in the war and being a prisoner of war. In 1949, Kraft followed a call to teach school music and music history at the State University of Music Weimar . In 1951 he became a lecturer in musicology and founded the archive and institute for folk music research , which collected the bequests of Franz Magnus Böhme , Karl Goepfart and others. In 1952 he was appointed professor of music history and his habilitation in 1963 at the University of Halle (Saale) with a dissertation on Bach - Genealogy . From 1964 to 1971 he was first honorary director, then director of the Bachhaus Eisenach . In 1972 Günther Kraft retired . His estate is now in the University Archive / Thuringian State Music Archive Weimar .
Works
- Johann Steuerlein - Life and Work (Dissertation), 1938
- Thuringian music culture around 1600 , 3 volumes, 1941
- Carl Maria von Weber and Albert Lortzing in their national and creative relationships , 1951
- Thuringian town pipers around Bach , 1950
- Festschrift Heinrich Albert , 1955
- Festschrift Heinrich Schütz , 1955
- Music-historical relations between Thuringia and Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries , 1955
- Schiller and Music , 1954, 1959 (partial print)
- The rural-craft basics of Thuringian music culture , 1955
- Singing and fighting peasants , 1956
- Neuaufgefundene Reger -letters , 1956
- Franz Liszt and the national schools in Europe , 1957
- New results of the Thuringian Bach research , 1957
- The Mannheim School , 1958
- The artistic and musical work in the former Buchenwald concentration camp , 1959
- On the spiritual tradition and environment of the Bach family , 1959
- New research results on the Bach genealogy , 1959
Web links
- Literature by and about Günther Kraft in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ University Archive / Thuringian State Music Archive Weimar
- ↑ Horst Seeger : Musiklexikon Personen A – Z / Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig (1981) p. 421
- ↑ Donation of a valuable painting: Portrait of the Liszt student Carl Goepfart ( memento of July 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Liszt School of Music Weimar
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SURNAME | Kraft, Günther |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kraft, Günther Ernst |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Suhl |
DATE OF DEATH | 20th September 1977 |
Place of death | Weimar |