Hermann Abert

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Hermann Josef Abert (born March 25, 1871 in Stuttgart ; † August 13, 1927 there ) was a German music historian .

Life

Hermann Abert was the son of the Stuttgart court Kapellmeister Johann Josef Abert and received his first musical training from him. He attended high school and conservatory in his hometown and served as a one-year volunteer in 1889/90.

From 1890 to 1896 Abert studied classical philology at the universities of Tübingen , Berlin and Leipzig . During his studies in Tübingen he joined the Tübingen student association, Akademische Gesellschaft Stuttgardia, which shaped southern German liberalism . He completed his studies in Halle in 1896 with a thesis on Greek music. In Tübingen he was awarded a doctorate in 1897 with a thesis on the musical aesthetics of classical antiquity. phil. PhD. For the next three years, Abert studied musicology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin until 1900 and also worked from 1898 to 1901 as the Berlin music advisor for the Swabian Merkur. In 1902 he completed his habilitation with a topic on musical aesthetics of the Middle Ages at the University of Halle in musicology. He gave his inaugural lecture on romanticism in music.

Abert enriched the musical life of the city of Halle through the revival of the university's Collegium musicum, which was abolished in 1813. He published numerous essays and monographs on German music history (Musikanschauung des Mittelalter, 1905), but also on Italian operas (Nicolo Jommelli, 1909). He also edited historical scores, including by Christoph Willibald von Gluck .

Abert stayed as a lecturer in Halle, where he was appointed full honorary professor by the Ministry of Culture in 1909 and was appointed associate professor at the university in 1912. From 1914 Abert did military service as a captain of the Landwehr (adjutant in the Schwäbisch Hall district command) (awarded the Cross of Merit for War Aid and the Württemberg Order of William with Swords). Discharged from the army in 1917, Abert strongly advocated that musicology should be represented by a full professor in Halle. He received the full professorship in 1918 and moved with this in 1919 to the University of Heidelberg . But after just a year Abert accepted a position at the University of Leipzig, where he succeeded the musicologist Hugo Riemann in 1920 . In 1923 he was brought to the University of Berlin because he was seen as the suitable successor to Hermann Kretzschmar ; also a musicologist. In Berlin, Abert was accepted as a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1925 , making him the first musicologist to receive this honor. He also became chairman of the Prussian Music History Commission.

The Illustrated Music Lexicon published by Abert with the collaboration of Friedrich Blume , Rudolf Gerber , Hans Hoffmann and Theodor Schwartzkopff turned out to be a plagiarism of the one published by Alfred Einstein ( New Music Lexicon and Hugo Riemann Music Lexicon ) in 1928 .

Works

  • The doctrine of ethos in Greek music. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1899 (dissertation).
  • The aesthetic principles of medieval melody formation. A study of the musical aesthetics of the Middle Ages. Kaemmerer, Halle 1902 (habilitation thesis). Open Access via ViFaMusik
  • Robert Schumann. Harmonie-Verlag, Berlin 1903.
  • Johann Joseph Abert (1832–1915). His life and his works. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1916; Reprint: Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt 1983, ISBN 3-922923-26-7 .
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A biography. 2 volumes. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1919/1921.
  • as publisher: Illustrated Music Lexicon. Staff: Friedrich Blume, Rudolf Gerber, Hans Hoffmann, Theodor Schwartzkopff. J. Engelhorns Nachf., Stuttgart 1927
  • Collected writings and lectures. Edited by Friedrich Blume. Niemeyer, Halle 1929; Reprint: Schneider, Tutzing 1968.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Abert  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See on this: Frankfurter Zeitung . Saturday, August 11, 1928.
personal data
SURNAME Abert, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abert, Hermann Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1927
Place of death Stuttgart