Hermann Erpf

Hermann Erpf (born April 23, 1891 in Pforzheim ; † October 17, 1969 in Stuttgart ) was a German music teacher , music theorist and composer . He was one of the formative personalities of the German youth music movement .

Erpf was first from 1935 director of the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, 1943–1945 and 1952–1956 director of the State University of Music Stuttgart . During this time he wrote many music pedagogical works. His compositional oeuvre, which consists mainly of choral movements on folk songs and settings by Angelus Silesius , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Heinrich Heine , Friedrich Hebbel and Richard Dehmel , has been published in song books for school and choir use. Erpf also composed piano and chamber music.

Publications (selection)

The concept of musical "form" . Dissertation. Leipzig 1914
Hermann Erpf and Adolf Hildenbrand , proposals for the promotion of the arts and creative artists in Baden 1919, memorandum
Developments in contemporary music . Karlsruhe 1922
Studies of harmony and sound technology in modern music . Leipzig 1927, reprint Wiesbaden 1969
Harmony in school . Leipzig 1930
Zum Schwarzen Walfisch, Eine Zirkelgeschichte , (Berlin, private print 1931) illustrated by the Pforzheim graphic artist and school friend Richard Ziegler, (Theia-Druck 4)
From the Law of Music , Berlin, "Das Reich" from October 20, 1940
About the nature of new music . Stuttgart 1949
New ways of music education . Stuttgart 1953
Contemporary music studies: ideas, forces, goals . Mainz 1954
Issues of the day in musical life: 1950–1957. Radio lectures, essays, speeches . Stuttgart 1957
How should it go on? Rodenkirchen 1958
Instrumentation and instrument science textbook . 1959, reprint Wiesbaden 1981. ISBN 3-921518-52-0 .
Form and structure in music . 1967. ISBN 3-7957-2212-8 .

Kurt Honolka : Hermann Erpf. Musician, scholar, educator . In: Musica 10/1956, pp. 287-289
Hermann Erpf in memory . In: Zeitschrift für Musiktheorie 1/1970 Issue 1, pp. 3–4