Hellmut Federhofer

Hellmut Federhofer (born August 6, 1911 in Graz , Austria-Hungary ; died May 1, 2014 in Mainz ) was an Austrian musicologist .

Life

As a musician, Federhofer, who was trained as a conductor and son of the Graz mechanics professor Karl Federhofer, was a student of Alban Berg , Emil von Sauer and Alfred Orel . He studied musicology in Graz and Vienna and received his doctorate in 1936. The following year he became a librarian at the library of the Technical University (BTH) Graz and later at the University Library in Graz . In 1940 he took over the management of the BTH Graz. Federhofer received his habilitation in 1944. In 1959 he got a professorship for musicology. From 1962 until his retirement in 1979 he headed the musicological institute at the University of Mainz . In 1999 he was promoted to Dr. H. c. appointed to his alma mater, in 2005 he received the Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Styria . Three festschrifts were dedicated to him. His main research interests were Styrian music history, music theory, Mozart , Johann Joseph Fux and the music theorist Heinrich Schenker . As a gifted polemicist, he was skeptical of the musical avant-garde. Until a few days before his death, Federhofer was active in science and journalism.

He was married to the musicologist Renate Federhofer-Königs and lived in Mainz . He is the father of the literary scholar Marie-Theres Federhofer , who manages his important musical collection.

Fonts (selection)

Dutch and Italian musicians of Charles II's court orchestra in Graz: 1564-1590 . Austrian Bundesverlag, Vienna 1954.
New music: a literature report (= Mainz Studies on Musicology Volume 9). Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1977, ISBN 3-7952-0209-4 .
Chord and voice leading in the music-theoretical systems of Hugo Riemann, Ernst Kurth and Heinrich Schenker . Verl. Of the Österr. Akad. Der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-7001-0385-9 .
Heinrich Schenker, based on diaries and letters in the Oswald Jonas Memorial Collection . Olms, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 9783487076423 .
Music and history: Articles from non-musical magazines . Olms, Hildesheim 1996, ISBN 3-487-10199-8 .

Web links

Literature by and about Hellmut Federhofer in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Hellmut Federhofer in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b without author: Hellmut Federhofer died . In: Allgemeine Zeitung , May 5, 2014, online , accessed May 5, 2014.
↑ Thomas Wozonig, Early Schenker reception Hellmut spring Hofer , in: Journal of the Society for Music Theory, 15/1 (2018). The Austrian music researcher Harald Kaufmann (1927–1970), who also attended events by Federhofer during his studies in Graz, was much more critical of Schenker's ideas, see for example Kaufmann's essay, Progress and Reaction in Heinrich Schenker's theory of analysis in track lines. Analytical essays on language and music , Vienna 1969, pp. 37–46. After the publication of Kaufmann's article Models of Regional Historiography , a heated argument broke out between Federhofer and Kaufmann . In it, Kaufmann had attacked the, in his opinion, often unreflected collecting mania of local music research, which led to a journalistic backlash by Federhofer. See: Harald Kaufmann, finger exercises. Music Society and Value Judgment, Vienna 1970, pp. 128–162; on the dispute especially p. 162.

personal data
SURNAME	Federhofer, Hellmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Graz
DATE OF DEATH	May 1, 2014
Place of death	Mainz

[AZ-1] without author: Hellmut Federhofer died . In: Allgemeine Zeitung , May 5, 2014, online , accessed May 5, 2014.

[2] Thomas Wozonig, Early Schenker reception Hellmut spring Hofer , in: Journal of the Society for Music Theory, 15/1 (2018). The Austrian music researcher Harald Kaufmann (1927–1970), who also attended events by Federhofer during his studies in Graz, was much more critical of Schenker's ideas, see for example Kaufmann's essay, Progress and Reaction in Heinrich Schenker's theory of analysis in track lines. Analytical essays on language and music , Vienna 1969, pp. 37–46. After the publication of Kaufmann's article Models of Regional Historiography , a heated argument broke out between Federhofer and Kaufmann . In it, Kaufmann had attacked the, in his opinion, often unreflected collecting mania of local music research, which led to a journalistic backlash by Federhofer. See: Harald Kaufmann, finger exercises. Music Society and Value Judgment, Vienna 1970, pp. 128–162; on the dispute especially p. 162.