Gustav Becking
Gustav Wilhelm Becking (born March 4, 1894 in Bremen , † May 9, 1945 in Prague ) was a musicologist and professor at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague.
Life
Gustav Becking studied musicology at the universities of Leipzig , Heidelberg and Berlin and received his doctorate in philosophy in Leipzig in 1920 , completed his habilitation in 1922 at the University of Erlangen and became an associate professor in 1928. In 1930, as a full professor of music history at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague, he was a board member of the German Academy for Music and the Performing Arts and head of the music department. In 1937 and 1938, through his initiative, music festivals were held in Teplitz-Schönau ( Teplice ) in western Bohemia . In 1938 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . On April 1, 1939 Becking became a member of the NSDAP. Gustav Becking's main research interests were the musical epochs of the social classes in Bohemia . Becking was drafted into the Volkssturm at the end of World War II and died in Prague one day after the end of the war.
Works
- Studies on Beethoven's personal style. The Scherzo theme. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1921.
- The musical rhythm as a source of knowledge. Benno Filser Verlag, Augsburg 1928.
literature
- Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries, edited by Heribert Sturm on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum , Volume I (A – H), page 66. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 1979. ISBN 3-486-49491-0 .
- Hugo Riemann : Musiklexikon, Suppl. Volume.
- Sudetenland - Bohemia Moravia Silesia ; Volume 8, 1966.
- Prague News 7, 1956.
- Walter Gerstenberg: Becking, Gustav Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 725 ( digitized version ).
- Hans Joachim Moser : Music Lexicon, 1955.
- Music in the past and present (1949–1962).
- Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 34.
- ↑ Klaas-Hinrich Ehlers, Structuralism in German Linguistics - The Reception of the Prague School between 1926 and 1945, Gruyter Verlag, Berlin, 2005, ISBN 3-11-018264-5 , page 452
- ↑ https://repositorium.uni-osnabrueck.de/bitstream/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-2007091013/2/E-Diss699_Thesis.pdf
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Becking in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becking, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Becking, Gustav Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1945 |
| Place of death | Prague |