Hans Erdmann (music teacher)

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Hans Erdmann (born February 13, 1911 in Neubrandenburg ; † February 15, 1986 in Lübeck ) was a German music teacher, musicologist and philologist.

Life

Hans Erdmann was born in Neubrandenburg in 1911 as the son of a locomotive driver. After completing his Abitur at the Schwerin Realgymnasium, he attended the Pedagogical Institute in Rostock . From 1932 to 1935 he initially worked as a primary school teacher. This was followed by studying musicology, philology and psychology, which he completed in Rostock in 1939 with a doctorate. The other professional activities were lecturer for music education at the University for Teacher Education Rostock from 1939 to 1942 and then until 1945 music educator at the teacher training institute in Güstrow .

Between 1945 and 1946 Erdmann was a lecturer in music education and psychology in the Schwerin teacher training course and then until 1958 music teacher at the Goethe Oberschule in Schwerin. He played a key role in the development of the Mecklenburg Volksliedarchiv and was also its director from 1952 to 1958.

After leaving the GDR, Erdmann's next stop was the Hanseatic City of Lübeck from 1958 , most recently in school service at the Katharineum high school . He was also a music critic for the Lübecker Nachrichten from 1958 to 1978 . In 1981 he received the Mecklenburg Culture Prize of the Landsmannschaft Mecklenburg .

In addition to his educational work, Erdmann's work included treatises on musicological topics in the specialist press and reference works, as well as the renewed publication of works by old masters or the collection of Low German songs.

Hans Erdmann died two days after his 75th birthday in Lübeck.

Works (selection)

editor

  • Johann Wilhelm Hertel . Sonata in D minor for harpsichord or piano , Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1950
  • Giuseppe Tartini . Sinfonia in A major, c. 538 , Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1950
  • Giuseppe Tartini. Sinfonia in D major, c. 551/78 , Schott, Mainz 1956
  • Joseph Haydn . Divertimento in D major, Hob.III: D3 , Schott, Mainz 1955

author

  • School music in Mecklenburg-Schwerin: from Pestalozzi to the end of the 19th century. Hinstorff, Rostock 1940,
    (also: dissertation, University of Rostock 1940)
  • Goethe in the popular song. Petermänken, Schwerin 1949
  • Folk songs from Mecklenburg.
    Song selection and commentary: Hans Erdmann, cover and illustrations: Rudolf Gahlbeck , Petermänken, Schwerin 1960
  • musicological essays in Music in the past and present . Volume 6, 1957 and Volume 12, 1965
  • Collaboration on the Riemann music dictionary . 1959-1974
  • Collaboration on the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . 10 volumes, 1954–1961
  • The Low German song in recent times. Lecture 1962
  • On the musical practice of Mecklenburg folk dance. In: German yearbook for folklore. 1956
  • To Adrian Petit Coclico's stay in Mecklenburg . In: The music research . 1966
  • Musical relations between Lübeck and Mecklenburg-Schwerin . In: The car . Lübeck 1967
  • Schwerin as the city of music. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1967
  • Contribution to the history of the Berwald family of musicians . In: The music research. 1970

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who [...] , see literature
personal data
SURNAME Erdmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, musicologist and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubrandenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1986
Place of death Lübeck