Heinrich Hüschen

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Heinrich Hüschen (born March 2, 1915 in Moers ; died July 20, 1993 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was a German musicologist .

Life

Heinrich Hüschen attended the humanistic grammar school in Moers. In the period from 1937 to 1943 he studied school music at the Cologne University of Music and at the University of Cologne and graduated in 1941 with the 1st state examination for higher education. He completed the subsequent study of musicology with the minor subjects philosophy and history in 1943, also at the Musicological Institute of Cologne University, with a doctorate on the subject of Bernhard Bogentantz's music tract . His musicological teachers were Karl Gustav Fellerer , Ernst Bücken , Gotthold Frotscher and Arnold Schering .

From 1943 on, Hüschen was called up for military service and became a prisoner of war , from which he returned in 1948. He received an assistant position at the Musicological Institute in Cologne and completed his habilitation there in 1955 with an examination of the text concordances in medieval music literature. In 1961 he was appointed professor at the same institute. In 1964 he was appointed to a chair at the University of Marburg , which he held until 1970. In 1970 he returned to Cologne University and took over the chair for historical musicology and head of the Cologne Musicological Institute until his retirement in 1983.

Act

Hüschen worked primarily as an editor of standard works and series of musicology and as an author of lexicon articles. During his time in Marburg, for example, he published the Marburg Contributions to Music Research and the Studies on Hessian Music History in the Bärenreiter-Verlag , and from 1971 to 1983 he was the editor of the series Cologne Contributions to Music Research , in which outstanding research contributions from the Cologne Institute were published by Gustav Bosse Verlag ( continued as Cologne contributions to musicology ). From 1962 to 1980 he was a member of the editorial committee of Acta musicologica . His own research interests were music theory and perception of music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . He wrote over a hundred personal and material articles for the lexicon of music in the past and present .

Fonts

  • The motet . Das Musikwerk 47, 1974
  • Heinrich Hüschen (Ed.): Musicae scientiae collectanea: Festschrift for Karl Gustav Fellerer's 70th birthday , Cologne 1973.
  • Heinrich Hüschen (Ed.): Festschrift Karl Gustav Fellerer for his 60th birthday. Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1962.
  • The Cantuagium of Heinrich Eger von Kalkar: 1328 - 1408 , ed. by Heinrich Hüschen, contributions to the history of music in the Rhineland. Stauffen-Verlag, Krefeld 1952

Literature about Heinrich Hüschen

  • Dietrich Kämper (Ed.): Heinrich Hüschen in: Rheinischemusik 6. 1969, 87-89
  • Detlef Altenburg (Ed.): Heinrich Hüschen (1915–1993) , in: Musikforschung 47, 1994, 117–118

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller:  Hüschen, Heinrich. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 9 (Himmel - Kelz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1119-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
personal data
SURNAME Hüschen, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Moers
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1993
Place of death Bad Oeynhausen