Hans Rectanus

Hans Rectanus (born February 18, 1935 in Worms am Rhein ) is a German musicologist, music teacher, organist and choir director.

Life

Rectanus studied musicology, German literature , art history , pedagogy and philosophy at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Vienna from 1955 to 1960 , as well as school music at the Frankfurt State University for Music and Performing Arts , choral conducting with Kurt Thomas , orchestral conducting with Karl Maria Zwißler . At the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , he was a member of Hans Swarowsky's conducting class .

After the first and second state examination for teaching at secondary schools and teaching in the fields of music, German and Latin, he took a job as a research assistant at the Institute for Music Education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and received his doctorate there in 1966 when Helmuth Osthoff with a work on the music-dramatic works of Hans Pfitzner . In the same year he was appointed lecturer at the Heidelberg University of Education and in 1971 he was appointed professor for music and its didactics; From 1989 to 2003 he was also a lecturer at Frankfurt University.

In 1968 Rectanus passed the exam for full-time church musicians (B-Exam) at the Evangelical Church Music School Schlüchtern and was appointed " Choir Director" by the Federal Association of German Choir Associations and "Music Director" by the Association of German Professional Choir Directors. For over 40 years he led choirs of all genres, with whom he also performed larger works such as the Choral Fantasy (Beethoven), The Creation (Haydn), the Carmina burana (Orff). Concert tours have taken him to England, France, Holland and Bulgaria. In addition to numerous organ concerts in the region, he was invited to Passau, Strasbourg, Lyon, Luxembourg and Williamsburg (USA), among others.

Rectanus is a member of the executive committee of the Hans Pfitzner Society and was a member of the music committee of the Baden Choir Association for 10 years.

Research and work focus

In the musicological field, he published 30 essays in anthologies and specialist journals on Hans Pfitzner, the same number on music-pedagogical and choral topics. He is the editor of the complete edition (in two volumes) of the songs of Hans Pfitzner and some early chamber music works as well as the author of personal and material articles in music pedagogical and musicological lexicons, including 16 articles in the 28-volume revision of the music encyclopedia " Music in Past and Present " (MGG.).

Publications (selection)

• Leitmotivik and form in the music-dramatic works of Hans Pfitzner (= literary-historical-musicological treatises 18, edited by Friedrich Gennrich) [= Diss. Phil. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 1966] Würzburg 1967.
• "I know you, Josquin, you wonderful one" ... Comments on thematic relationships between Josquin, Palestrina and Pfitzner . In: Ludwig Finscher (ed.): Renaissance studies , Festschrift Helmuth Osthoff (= Frankfurt contributions to musicology , 11). Tutzing 1979, ISBN 3-7952-0256-6 , pp. 211-222
• Pfitzner's early works - inventory and stylistic notes .] In: Wolfgang Osthoff (Ed.): Symposium Hans Pfitzner Berlin 1981 , conference report (= publications of the Hans Pfitzner Society , 3). Tutzing 1984, ISBN 3-7952-0434-8 , pp. 89-98
• Pedagogical-artistic work with amateur choirs - job profiles and qualifications .] In: Hans Günther Bastian (Ed.): School music teachers and amateur music - music teacher training before new tasks? (= Contemporary issues in music education , 2). Essen 1988, ISBN 3-89206-242-0 , pp. 148-159
• The Historical and Musical Significance of Lubeck, Braunschweig and Munich in the Nineteenth Century . In: William E. Grim, Michael B. Harper (Eds.): Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts , Vol. 2, 1990. New York 1991, pp. 703-714, ISSN  1048-860X
• Margrit Hügel, Maria Dombrowsky, Lilo Martin - three female composers in Hans Pfitzner's Berlin and Munich master classes . In: Annegrit Laubenthal (ed.) With the assistance of Kara Kusan-Windweh: Studies on the history of music. A commemorative publication for Ludwig Finscher . Kassel 1995, ISBN 978-3-7618-1222-8 , pp. 750-758
• Hans Pfitzner's posthumous Goethe cantata “Urworte orphisch” op. 57. ] In: Peter Cahn, Wolfgang Osthoff (ed.): Hans Pfitzner - “Das Herz” and the transition to the late work . Report on the Symposium Rudolstadt 1993 (= publications of the Hans Pfitzner Society , 7). Tutzing 1997, ISBN 3-7952-0915-3 , pp. 243-259
• Lernfeld choir - the amateur choir leader as choir educator .] In: Friedhelm Brusniak, Dietmar Klenke (Ed.): Elementary school teachers and extracurricular music culture - conference report Feuchtwangen 1997 (= Feuchtwanger contributions to music research , 2). Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-89639-144-5 , pp. 241-247
• What I heard about the so-called Jöde movement filled me with horror - Hans Pfitzner as a counter-pedagogue in the field of tension in music pedagogy of his time . In: Gunter Kreutz, Johannes Bähr (Hrsg.): Impetus - musical education demand and promote, Festschrift for Hans Günther Bastian (= Forum Musikpädagogik , 63). Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-89639-438-X , pp. 153-171
• Palestrina in Paris, The heart in Bordeaux: Pfitzner performances that have taken place and are planned in France in the forties .] In: Wolfgang Osthoff (Ed.): Hans Pfitzner and the musical theater, report on the Symposium Schloss Thurnau 1999 (= publications by Hans Pfitzner Society , 8). Tutzing 2008, ISBN 978-3-7952-1254-4 , pp. 155-168

Editorial activity

• All songs with piano accompaniment , Volume 1 Mainz 1979, ISMN 979-0-001-07111-6 (search in the DNB portal) ; Volume 2 with appendix: Early songs and fragments, Mainz 1983
• String quartet in d (1886) . First edition (in parts), Kassel a. a. 1972, BA 19115
• Trio in B flat major for violin, violoncello and piano (1886), first edition, score and parts, additions to the 2nd movement by Gerhard Frommel, Mainz 1982, ED6963
• Four early songs for medium voice and piano , first edition. 1st edition Mainz 2007, 2nd edition Mainz 2008, ISMN 979-0-001-13896-3 (search in DNB portal)

Web links

• Complete list of literature by and about Hans Rectanus with further information (curriculum vitae, artistic activities)
• Literature by Hans Rectanus in the Heidelberg lecturer bibliography
• Entries in the Bibliography of Music Literature (BMS)