Hermann Matzke

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Hermann Matzke (born March 28, 1890 in Breslau ; † June 26, 1976 in Konstanz ) was the founder of musical technology, publisher of the instrument making magazine, professor at the Technical Universities of Breslau and Stuttgart, music critic, composer and publicist.

life and work

family

  • Born and raised in Wroclaw.
  • Son of the businessman (men's clothing) Emanuel Matzke and Agnes, b. Shark sign. Brother Georg 1892–1945 (pharmacist).
  • 1918 marriage to Dora Berner (1894–1955), whom he met in 1914 in Bern.
  • 1923 Birth of daughter Liselotte (died 1998 in Münchenbuchsee / Bern).
  • 1959 marriage to Carla Müller (1902–1988). Opera singer in Breslau, Berlin, Kulmbach.

Musician

  • At the age of nine he started playing the piano, later under the guidance of Felix Rosenthal, violin lessons with Fabian, counterpoint with Georg Riemenschneider , basics of flute playing with Ernst Tschirner, singing and later also methodology of school singing with Max Thomale. As a student organ student with Otto Kinkeldey .
  • Initiator of the student orchestra in the Realgymnasium am Zwinger, Breslau.
  • Even as a teenager he taught himself (he taught his brother to play the violin, among other things) and repeatedly played chamber music in ad hoc formations, e.g. B. during his military service from 1914.
  • First compositions during high school.
  • 1922 conductor of the former Bückeburg court orchestra. In addition teaching.
  • Musical director of the Silesian Radio Lesson.
  • Honorary chairman of the German music fairs in Mittenwald (1949/50, alongside the later Federal Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ludwig Erhard as protector) and Düsseldorf (from 1951).

Academics

  • From 1910 Universities of Breslau, Bern, Berlin (musicology, history, literary studies, philosophy, art history, political economy, law, physics).
  • During the First World War scientific. Employee in the Brussels State Archives. In addition, completion of the dissertation , 1919 Dr. phil in Bern.
  • 1924 teaching post at the Technical University in Breslau (foundation of the Collegium musicum of the TH).
  • 1930 habilitation.
  • 1931 Volkswirt RDV (Reich Association of German Economists).
  • 1932 founder and director of the "Institute for Musical Technology" at the TH, later professor and senator.
  • From 1955 at the suggestion of Theodor Heuss at the TH Stuttgart.
  • Member of the committee for business-related research at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economics.

writer

  • Thoughts on music, art, history 1915–1976, 28 volumes.
  • Since 1922 for almost three decades first music critic of the "Schlesische Tagespost"
  • 1931 head of the university press office.
  • Since 1934 publisher of the "Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau" founded by Paul de Wit in Leipzig in 1880
  • 1946–1976 editor of the “Instrumentenbau-Zeitschrift” in Konstanz
  • Numerous publications, collection of aphorisms (www.hausschlesien.de)

Major works

  • Our technical knowledge of music. Introduction to Music Technology (1949)
  • Music economics and music politics (1927) translated into several languages.
  • Basics of a Musical Technology (1931)
  • Music history of the world (1949)
  • Memories: A Life for Art and Science in Silesia and Europe. (compiled by Winfried Matzke, 1989 and Adelheid Straehl, 2007)

Civil service

  • 1923–33 on the board of the regional association of the Silesian Press (chairman of the press court of honor in the "murder case of Prof. Rosen")
  • Deputy or acting director of the Silesian regional department of the "Reichszentrale für Heimatdienst" until 1931.

Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Matzke, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music historian, composer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1976
Place of death Constancy