Hans Albrecht (musicologist)

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Joachim Hans Albrecht (born March 31, 1902 in Magdeburg , † January 20, 1961 in Kiel ) was a German musicologist and university professor . He was a professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel

Life

Albrecht was born as the son of Theodor Albrecht (chief engineer) and Klara Emmy Brandt in Magdeburg, Saxony . He spent his childhood and youth in Essen, where he prepared for the music teacher examination while attending grammar school in Borbeck at the Essen Conservatory (1911–1921) and graduated in 1921 with a major in piano . In 1921 he began studying musicology . After a semester at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , he switched to the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he was a student of Johannes Wolf , Hermann Abert , Curt Sachs and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel . Albrecht was in 1925 when John Wolf at the Philosophical Faculty in Berlin with a thesis on the performance practice of the Italian music of the 14th century to Dr. phil. PhD .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1933 (No. 1,691,130). From June 1, 1933 to January 1, 1934 he was block warden and local group culture warden . In 1934 he became head of the Rhineland Music Association of the Reich Chamber of Music . From November 1935 to 1937 he was regional director of the Reichsmusikkammer in the Cologne-Aachen district . Heinz Drewes , whom he knew from his student days in Berlin, brought him to the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in 1937 , where he was a consultant in Department X (Music) until 1939. Mentioned in 2007 in the cultural lexicon for the Third Reich , Ernst Klee decided not to include Albrecht in the completely revised 2009 edition.

Until 1937 Albrecht held several teaching positions at conservatories , including a. at the Witte Conservatory in Essen (1925–1933), at the Sievert Conservatory in Wuppertal (1925–1935) and at the Folkwang School in Essen (1933–1937). He was also an employee of Deutsche Bühnenkorrespondenz . He also organized music festivals in Bremen (1929), Essen (1931) and Aachen (1933). For the Reichsverband Deutscher Tonkünstler he helped design the Rhenish music festivals.

A habilitation was initially not possible because the musicological institutes in Cologne and Bonn did not have a free chair . In 1939 he joined the State Institute for German Music Research in Berlin as a research assistant (until 1941) . On October 1, 1940, he was appointed professor there despite the title ban . On June 4, 1942, he received his habilitation at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel with a thesis on the life and work of Caspar Othmayr . The habilitation thesis was published by Bärenreiter-Verlag in Kassel in 1950 . He followed Max Seiffert in 1941, after his retirement , as acting head of the State Institute for German Music Research. In 1942/43 he was also a representative of musicology in the Senate of the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin. When the institute was closed at the end of 1944, Albrecht resigned from this position. He looked after the inventory of subdivision 3 (instrument museum) at Seifersdorf Castle near Liegnitz in Silesia. In February 1945 he was called up for military service.

After 1945 he was classified as "exonerated" as part of the denazification . In 1947 he joined the musicological institute of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel as a private lecturer for music history . In 1955 he became an adjunct professor of musicology in Kiel , where he taught until his death. He worked as an expert reviewer for the German Research Foundation . His research interests included the late 15th and early 16th centuries ( Renaissance music ).

From 1954 to 1959 he worked as a research assistant at the German Music History Archive in Kassel, which is supervised by the Music History Commission . From 1953 to 1959, he was the director of the memorial series The Heritage of German Music . In 1946 he co-founded the Society for Music Research . From 1948 to 1960 he was editor of the organ Die Musikforschung and from 1958 to 1961 of Acta Musicologica of the International Musicological Society . He was also chairman of the response committee for the Documenta Musicologia facsimile series . He headed the Kiel State Institute for Music Research from 1947 to 1961. In 1953 he re-established the institute's series of publications. From 1949 he continued Max Seiffert's Organum collection . From 1951 to 1961 he was also head of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute at the Georg August University of Göttingen . He was a close advisor to Friedrich Blum and was part of the editorial team of the encyclopedia from 1947 to 1958, The Music in Past and Present .

Hans Albrecht, Protestant, was married and the father of two children. His son Gerd Albrecht (1935–2014) was a conductor.

Fonts (selection)

  • Caspar Othmayr: Life and Work . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel / Basel 1950.
  • The meaning of the characters wedge, dash and point in Mozart: 5 solutions to a price question (= musicological work . No. 10). Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel / Basel / London 1957 (published on behalf of the Society for Music Research).

Autobiographical:

literature

  • Anna Amalie Abert : Hans Albrecht in memory . In: Die Musikforschung 14 (1961) 2, pp. 129-131.
  • Eric Blom, Malcolm Turner:  Albrecht, Hans. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  • Friedrich Blume : Hans Albrecht, March 31, 1902 - January 20, 1961 . In: Acta Musicologica 33 (1961) 2/4, pp. 60-64.
  • Wilfried Brennecke , Hans Haase (Hrsg.): Hans Albrecht in Memoriam - memorial with contributions from friends and students . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1962. Contains a (refined) bibliography of scientific publications (pp. 16–21).
  • Wilfried Brennecke: In Memoriam Hans Albrecht . In: Revue belge de Musicologie / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap 15 (1961) 1/4, pp. 3–7.
  • Mariano Pérez: Diccionario de la música y los músicos . Volume 1: A-E . Ediciones Istmo, Madrid 2000, ISBN 84-7090-140-0 , p. 32.
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . 2nd Ed., Kopf, Kiel 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-037705-1 , pp. 121-123 and 8578.
  • Wolfgang Sykorra : From the Penne into the world: Borbeck portraits . Edited by Lothar Böning. Ed. Rainruhr, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-394-16761-7-6 , p. 16f.
  • "Albrecht, Hans." Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Encyclopedia.com. June 15, 2018 < http://www.encyclopedia.com >.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Germany, Birth Register 1874–1903 [database on-line], Magdeburg Old Town Registry Office, Register Number 918/1902
  2. ↑ Martin Thrun: Regulating power and implementing region. New music and music politics in the Rhineland after 1933 . In: Heinz Bremer (ed.): New Music in the Rhineland (= contributions to Rhenish music history . Vol. 157). Merseburger, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-87537-271-9 , pp. 45-66, here: pp. 50f.
  3. ^ A b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . Kiel 2009, p. 121.
  4. ^ Martin Thrun: leadership and administration. Heinz Drewes as head of the music department of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (1937–1944) . In: Albrecht Riethmüller , Michael Custodis (ed.): The Reichsmusikkammer: Art under the spell of the Nazi dictatorship . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22394-6 , pp. 101–146, here: pp. 139, 141.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-10-039326-0 , p. 13.
  6. ↑ Cf. Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 (part of: Anne-Frank-Shoah-Bibliothek ).
  7. ^ Rudolf Häusler: 50 Years of the International Society for Musicology . In: Acta Musicologica 49 (1977) 1, pp. 1–27, here: p. 27.
  8. ^ Harald Heckmann : Musicological ventures in Germany since 1945 . In: Acta Musicologica 29 (1957) 2/3, pp. 75-94, here: p. 77.
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1961
Place of death Kiel