Gustav Nottebohm

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Gustav Nottebohm

Martin Gustav Nottebohm (born November 12, 1817 in Lüdenscheid , † October 29, 1882 in Graz ) was a German musicologist , composer and Beethoven researcher.

Life

Nottebohm first studied in Berlin and from there in 1840 went to the Leipzig Conservatory , where he received lessons from Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . In 1846 he went to Vienna to pursue additional counterpoint studies with Simon Sechter . He settled in Vienna, where he earned his living as a piano and theory teacher. In 1858 he was appointed director and in 1864 archivist and librarian of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.

He dedicated his actual work to preoccupation with Schubert and Beethoven. In 1868 and 1874 he published the first catalogs of works by Schubert and Beethoven, and since 1865 Nottebohm has published several books on Beethoven's sketches and the compositional technique that can be identified from them. In 1880 he published new research results on Mozart .

Nottebohm is considered to be the founder of modern sketch research, which today makes up an important part of Beethoven research, as it enables a unique insight into the composer's artistic creative process. Nottebohm's publications on Beethoven's sketches are indispensable to this day, so that his name as an important researcher has remained alive in musical circles to this day. Nottebohm also discovered that the main theme of Bach's "Art of Fugue" can be combined with the three themes of the unfinished Contrapunctus XIV from the aforementioned work of Bach according to the rules of fourfold counterpoint.

In 1921, Nottebohmstrasse was named after him in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) . Letters from Nottebohm are kept in the Leipzig State Archives.

Musical works (selection)

  • 6 Romanesques , op.2
  • Two lyrical clay pieces , op.13
  • Variations on a Theme by Johann Sebastian Bach in D minor for piano four hands , op.17 (there are 9 variations on the Sarabande from the French Suite No. 1 in D minor BWV 812)
  • Salve Regina

Books

  • Thematic index of the works by Ludwig van Beethoven that have appeared in print , 2nd, presumably edition, Leipzig 1868
  • Beethoveniana. Articles and messages , Leipzig 1872 ( digitized version )
  • Beethoven's studies, based on the original manuscripts , Volume 1, Beethoven's lessons with J. Haydn , Albrechtsberger and Salieri , Leipzig 1873 (Volume 2 not published)
  • Thematic index of the works by Franz Schubert that have appeared in print , Vienna 1874
  • A sketchbook by Beethoven from 1803 , Leipzig 1880
  • Mozartiana. Documents originating from Mozart and concerning him, for the most part not yet published, based on manuscripts found , Leipzig 1880
  • Second Beethoveniana. Post papers , ed. by Eusebius Mandyczewski , Leipzig 1887 ( digitized version )

student

literature

  • Karl Grün: Nekrolog for Gustav Nottebohm in: Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, November 29, 1882
  • Carl Ferdinand Pohl:  Nottebohm, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 41-44.
  • Hans Joachim Moser : Gustav Nottebohm (1817–1882) in: Steffens / Zuhorn (ed.), Westfälische Lebensbilder, main series, Volume VI, Münster 1957, pp. 135–146
  • Hans Clauß: Gustav Nottebohm's letters to Robert Volkmann , Lüdenscheid 1967
  • Wolfgang Hoffmann: Gustav Nottebohm - A life in the service of music in: Lüdenscheider Nachrichten, 11./12. November 1967
  • Renate Federhofer-Königs : The Viennese musical life of the years 1846–1848 in the correspondence Gustav Nottebohm– Robert Schumann . With unpublished letters from Nottebohm , in: Studien zur Musikwissenschaft , Volume 37 (1968), pp. 47-101
  • Wolfgang Hoffmann: A talented factory owner's son from Lüdenscheid made a name for himself as a music researcher - the scientist and composer Gustav Nottebohm died a hundred years ago in Graz in: Lüdenscheider Nachrichten, 30./31. October 1982
  • Konrad Ameln:  Nottebohm, Martin Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 365 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Gustav Nottebohm  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See “Die Musikwelt”, vol. I, 1881, no. 20, p. 232ff. and No. 21, pp. 244ff.
personal data
SURNAME Nottebohm, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nottebohm, Martin Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, composer and Beethoven researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid , Germany
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1882
Place of death Graz , Austria