Hans Hoffmann (musician)

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Hans Hoffmann (born January 26, 1902 in Neustadt , district Neustadt OS , province of Silesia ; † August 26, 1949 in Bielefeld ) was a lyric tenor , musicologist and city music director in Bielefeld.

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Hans Hoffmann initially studied musicology at the universities of Breslau , Leipzig , Berlin and Kiel (with Fritz Stein ) and was awarded a doctorate summa cum laude on May 17, 1927 in Kiel. phil. PhD. He also studied violin and singing (in Berlin with Baptist Hoffmann ). From 1928 he made a name for himself as a concert singer, in oratorios and passions, but also as a song interpreter . In 1940 he took over the world premiere of Franz Schmidt's cantata Deutsche Auferstehung at the Wiener Musikverein . A festive song for the tenor part.

Hoffmann was also active as a musicologist parallel to his singing career (lecturer in Kiel and professor at the University of Halle ).

Following his move to Bielefeld, he worked there, among other things, as a choir director and conductor at the theater, and finally as the city's music director.

Publications (selection)

  • The north German trio sonata of the circle around Johann Gottlieb Graun and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (dissertation). Kiel: delivery to WG Mühlau 1927, 188 pp.
  • Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach: 2 tonal languages ​​and their meaning for performance practice , Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag [1940] 79 pp.
  • On the essence of contemporary church music , Kassel Basel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1949, 111 pp.

literature

  • Dr. Hans Hoffmann, City Music Director in Bielefeld , ed. from the city of Bielefeld o. J.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Musikforschung , 1949, p. 274
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tenor and music director
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt , District Neustadt OS , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1949
Place of death Bielefeld