Herbert Tampere

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Herbert Tampere (born January 19 July / February 1,  1909 greg. In the village of Uniküla, rural community Rannu , Livonia ; † January 19, 1975 in Rannu) was an Estonian folklorist and musicologist .

Life

Tampere studied from 1927 to 1933 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University in Tartu in southern Estonia (German Dorpat ). From 1928 he worked at the "Archive for Estonian Folk Poetry" ( Eesti Rahvaluule Arhiiv ) in Tartu and was already doing field research .

In 1935 he published his first anthology of Estonian folk songs . He was responsible for the publication of volumes III (1938 from the Kuusalu region ), IV (1941, Karksi region ) of the folk song collections Vana Kannel ("Old Harp"). After his death, his wife Erna Tampere published Volume V ( Mustjala ) with the collective results of the two researchers in 1985 .

Until 1940 and in the years 1952 to 1967 Tampere was responsible for the folk music department of the Estonian Literature Museum (Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum) in Tartu. After a year imprisonment by the Soviet occupation authorities, he was able to work as a teacher at the State Conservatory in Tallinn from 1945 to 1951 . From 1967 to 1975 he worked at the Tallinn Music High School.

In 1960 Tampere defended his dissertation on a topic of folk music before the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR .

Publications (selection)

  • 1935: Eesti rahvaviiside antoloogia , (anthology of Estonian folk songs), Eesti Akadeemilise Helikunstnikkude Seltsi Toimetused, Tartu
  • 1937: On the problem of rhythm in the ancient Estonian folk song , Acta Ethnologica 2, 1937: 1, pp. 65-78
  • 1938: with R. Pöldmäe: Valimik eesti rahvatantse , (selection of Estonian folk dances), Krüger, Tartu
  • 1938: as editor: Vana Kannel III , Eesti Rahvaluule Arhiiv; Kulturkoondis, Tallinn. With a summary in German; Old Estonian folk songs from the Kuusalu parish.
  • 1941: as editor: Vana Kannel IV , Eesti NSV Riiklik Kirjandusmuuseum Tartu, Teaduslik Kirjandus
  • 1964: The style types of the methodology of Estonian runes , Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR, Tallinn
  • 1970: together with Erna Tampere and Ottilie Kőiva: Estonian folk songs and instrumental music. A scientific anthology , Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR, Tallinn.
    • 2005: as audio recording on CD: Eesti rahvamuusika antoloogia , Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum, Tartu, EKMCD 005.
  • 1983: Estonskaja narodnaja pesnia in Russian. Musyka Publishing House, Leningrad 1983

literature

  • Andreas Kalkun: Herbert Tampere: On the Problem of Rhythm in the Old Estonian Folk Song in: Kirstin Kuutma and Tiiu Jaago: Studies in Estonian Folkloristics and Ethnology. A Reader and Reflexive History , University of Tartu, Tartu 2005 ISBN 9949-11-110-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 516
personal data
SURNAME Tampere, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian folklorist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Uniküla village, Rannu rural parish , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 1975
Place of death Rannu