Hans Mersmann
Hans Mersmann (born August 6, 1891 in Potsdam , † June 24, 1971 in Cologne ) was a German musicologist .
Life
Mersmann studied in Munich and Berlin . In 1916 he received his doctorate with the dissertation Chr. L. Boxberg and his opera Sardanapalus . A year later he was commissioned by the Prussian folk song commission to set up a folk song archive . From 1924 to 1933 he was the editor of the renowned Melos magazine . In 1926 he became an associate professor at the Technical University in Berlin. After the seizure of power of the Nazis he had to leave the university in 1933 because he repeatedly for new music had begun. He then made his way as a private music teacher. In 1935 he was defamed by the National Socialist cultural community as a "music Bolshevik".
From 1947 to 1957 he was director of the Cologne University of Music , from 1953 he was also head of the German section of the UNESCO International Music Council .
His daughter Wiltrud (* 1919) became an art historian.
Publications (selection)
- Cultural history of music in individual presentations . Berlin 1921-25
- Applied music aesthetics . Berlin 1926
- The tonal language of the new music . Mainz 1928
- Chamber music (guide through the concert hall, started by Hermann Kretzschmar), 4 volumes. Leipzig 1930, also 1933.
- A German music history . Sanssouci, Potsdam / Berlin [1934]
- Listening to music . Sanssouci, Potsdam / Berlin 1938, 2nd edition 1952
- Music history in occidental culture . Hans F. Menck Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1955.
literature
- Hans Mersmann: Arbeitsbericht [1933] , 6 p. Typescript archive.org
- Walter Wiora : Music Knowledge and Music Education. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Hans Mersmann . Kassel 1957
- Fritz Schieri: Mersmann, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 175 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Mersmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Hans Mersmann in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 406.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mersmann, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1971 |
| Place of death | Cologne |