Hans Hickmann

Hans Robert Hermann Hickmann (born May 19, 1908 in Roßlau (Elbe) , † September 4, 1968 in Blandford Forum ) was a German musicologist .

career

Grave "Professor Dr. Heinz Hickmann ”, Ohlsdorf Cemetery

Hickmann studied at the University of Berlin with Curt Sachs and Erich von Hornbostel and graduated in 1934. In addition to playing the piano and organ, he also conducted. He later lived in Egypt and specialized in the music and organology of ancient Egypt and their survival in traditional Egyptian music. He also wrote on the Egyptian tradition of cheironomy (as practiced in ancient Egypt and still found in Coptic music) for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians .

Hickmann examined Egyptian music from 1932–33 during a visit to the Siwa Oasis and in 1933 settled in Egypt. He ran a conservatory called Musica Viva, which is located on Seket el Fadl in downtown Cairo.

Hickmann was married to the musicologist Ellen Hickmann for the third time .

Hans Hickmann's grave is located in grid square Q 18 (south of Chapel 2) at Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

• The portable. A contribution to the history of the small organ . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1936, OCLC 915849738 (also dissertation, Berlin 1934).
• Terminology arabe des instruments de musique . Le Caire 1947, OCLC 963498557 .
• with Carl Gregor Herzog zu Mecklenburg : Catalog d'enregistrements de musique folklorique Égyptienne. Précédé d'un rapport préliminaire sur les traces de l'art musical pharaonique dans la mélopée de la vallée du Nil (= Collection d'études musicologiques Volume 37). Koerner, Baden-Baden 1979, ISBN 3-87320-537-8 .
• Musicologie pharaonique. Études sur l'évolution de l'art musical dans l'Égypte ancienne. Avec 6 planches et 85 figures (= Collection d'études musicologiques Volume 3734). Koerner, Baden-Baden 1987, ISBN 3-87320-534-3 .

Web links

• Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graves of celebrities, Ohlsdorf cemetery