Hans Nathan (musicologist)

Hans Nathan (born August 5, 1910 in Berlin  ; died August 4, 1989 in Boston ) was an American musicologist .

Life

Hans Nathan's father was a Jewish businessman, he disappeared in 1936, his mother Luzie Nathan-Weyl, née Dobrin, was murdered in 1942 in Auschwitz . Nathan attended the Werner Siemens Realgymnasium in Berlin-Schöneberg , where he graduated from high school in 1929 . He studied musicology with Curt Sachs at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , where he also received his doctorate. From 1932 he worked as a music critic and later as a concert organizer in Berlin.

In 1936 he emigrated to the United States , where he took up postgraduate studies at Harvard University . In 1944 he became a US citizen. In 1945 he took over a visiting professorship at Tufts University in Medford . After 1946 he was a faculty member at Michigan State University in East Lansing .

Fonts

• The recitative of Richard Wagner's early operas: A contribution to the style of opera recitative in the first half of the 19th century . Dissertation Berlin, 1934
• The Tyrolese Family Rainer, and the Vogue of Singing Mountain-Troupes in Europe and America , in: The Musical Quaterly , Vol. 32, No. Jan. 1, 1946

literature

• Nathan, Hans , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 845
• Natan, Hans , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 277

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jascha Nemtsov: Zionism in music. Jewish music and national ideas , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009
2. ↑ Stefan Drees, Horst Weber: Sources on the history of emigrated musicians. Sources Relating to the History of Emigré Musicians 1933-1950 , KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2005