Harald Heckmann

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Harald Heckmann (born December 6, 1924 in Dortmund , Germany ) is a German musicologist .

Life

Heckmann studied musicology in Freiburg im Breisgau with Reinhold Hammerstein , Hermann Zenck and Wilibald Gurlitt as well as art history with Kurt Bauch , German literary history with Walther Rehm and history with Gerd Tellenbach and Gerhard Ritter . During his studies he became a member of the AMV Alt-Straßburg Freiburg ( Special Houses Association ). He received his doctorate in 1952 , was assistant to Wilibald Gurlitt until 1954 , worked on the concise dictionary of musical terminology at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and taught Protestant church music history and hymnology at the Freiburg University of Music .

In 1954 he was commissioned to set up the German Music History Archive in Kassel, which he directed until 1971 and which is overseen by the Music History Commission . From 1971 until his retirement in 1991 he was director of the German Broadcasting Archive in Frankfurt am Main, a foundation of the ARD .

Voluntary functions

From 1959 to 1974, Heckmann was first general secretary, then until 1977 president of the International Association of Music Libraries, Music Archives and Music Documentation Centers (international name: Association International des Bibliothèques Musicales, or AIBM for short). After his presidency he was named honorary president of the association. Between 1960 and 1980 he was also secretary, then until 2004 President of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM), where he is now also Honorary President. From 1971 to 2002 Heckmann was a member of the German Music History Commission. In 1972 he was one of the founders of the Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM) and was its vice-president until 1989. He was also co-founder in 1969 and until 1992 Vice President of the Répertoire Internationale de Littérature Musicale (RILM). From 1990 to 2003 he was President of the International Schubert Society and has been an honorary member there ever since. From 1985 to 1991 Heckmann was a member of the library committee of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Heckmann has been a member since 1975 and from 1982 to 1992 was chairman of the music advisory board of the German library and a member of its administrative board.

From 1983 to 2009, together with Gerhard Mantel, he was responsible for the chamber music programs of the Robert Schumann Society in Frankfurt am Main. Heckmann received the Kassel City Medal in 1979, the Golden Mozart Pin from the International Mozarteum Foundation in 1988 and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 2000 .

Fonts

Books
Essays

Work on music documentation, the history of music transmission, music iconography, the use of EDP in musicology, performance practice for older music, etc. a.

Editions
  • German Music History Archive Kassel. Catalog of the film collection, Kassel / Basel, from 1953 to 1972
  • Documenta Musicologica, series I printed documents – facsimiles, Kassel a. a. 1953 ff .; Series II, manuscript facsimiles ibid. 1955ff. (1961 to 1972 chair of the respective editorial committee of both series)
  • Kgr. Ber. Society for Music Research Hamburg 1956, Kassel / Basel 1957 (with W. Gerstenberg and H. Husmann)
  • Catalogus Musicus, a music bibliographical series (1963 to 1969 chairman of the publications committee, 1979 to 1973 together with H. Heussner)
  • S. de Brossard: Dict. de musique. Seconde edtition 1705, facsimile with introduction, Hilversum 1965
  • FS. Vladimir Fédorov, Fontes Artis Musicae 13 / 1.1966 (with Wolfgang Rehm)
  • The tenor song, polyphonic songs in German sources 1450–1580, ed. from Dt. Music story . Arch. Kassel and the Staatl. Institute for Music Research Preuss. Kulturbesitz Berlin, Vol. 1: Prints, Kassel a. a. 1979, Vol. 2: Handschriften., Ibid. 1982, Vol. 3: Register, ibid. 1986 (with Norbert Böker-Heil and Ilse Kindermann)
  • FS. Wolfgang Rehm, Kassel a. a. 1989 (with Dietrich Berke)
  • Musical iconography, conference. Hamburg 1991, Laaber 1994 (with Monika Holl and Hans Joachim Marx )
  • Reference works on music. International music and subject encyclopedias from the 17th to the early 19th century, microfiche edition, Munich 1999.
Music editions
  • WA Mozart, choirs and inter-act music for Thamos, King in Egypt, KV 345 (336a), New Mozart Edition (NMA) II / 6, vol. 1, Kassel a. a. 1956, 2/1973; in addition crit. Ber., Ibid. 1958
  • WA Mozart, Music for Pantomimes and Ballets, NMA II / 6, Vol. 22, 1963; in addition crit. Ber.
  • Chr. W. Gluck, La Rencontre imprévue / The pilgrims of Mecca; All Works IV, Vol. 7, ibid. 1964.

literature

  • Music documentation yesterday, today and tomorrow, FS. Harald Heckmann, ed. By Wolfgang Rehm, Kassel 1984 [with a complete list of publications to date]
  • Article about H. in Music in the past and present, 1st and 2nd edition; Grove Dictionary of Music and The New Grove, Kürschner's Scholar Lexicon. u. a.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 54.
  2. ^ Chronicle of the ARD

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Heckmann, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund