Hermann von der Pfordten

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Hermann von der Pfordten (born July 5, 1857 in Munich , † November 18, 1933 in Munich) was a German classical philologist and musicologist .

Life

Ludwig Hermann Freiherr von der Pfordten belonged to a Bavarian civil servant family. His father was the lawyer and politician Ludwig von der Pfordten . The mother, Adelgunde, née Marx (1823–1873), was the daughter of the businessman and banker Adalbert Fr. Marx in Leipzig. Hermann grew up with his siblings Kurt (1847–1907), Otto , Elisabeth and Helene (Nelly) in Munich. The lawyer Theodor von der Pfordten was a cousin.

Hermann von der Pfordten passed the Abitur examination at Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium in 1874 , with Eugen Albert , Theodor Henkel , Karl Emich Graf von Leiningen-Westerburg , Max Planck and Anton Riemerschmid , among others . He studied classical philology and musicology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Leipzig , received his doctorate in classical philology in 1878, and since 1882 has taught as a private lecturer in the history of music at the Faculty of Philosophy in Munich. In 1906 he received the title and rank of associate professor. His students are named: the violinist Alfred Pellegrini (1887–1962) and the composers Friedrich Mecke (1890–1965), Eugen Auerbach (1898–1944) and Ivo Cruz (1901–1985). After initially a few works on the Greek language, Hermann von der Pfordten published in the field of music history.

In 1882 he acquired the homeland rights in Munich and married Marie Vetter from Würzburg (born June 25, 1857).

Fonts

  • De dialecto Thessalica commentatio. Inaugural dissertation. Kaiser, Munich 1878.
  • On the history of the Greek perfectum. Christian Kaiser, Munich 1882.
  • On the history of the Greek denominatives. JCHinrichs, Leipzig 1886.
  • Plot and poetry of Richard Wagner's stage works based on their bases in legend and history. Trowitzsch, Berlin 1893 (7th edition 1920).
  • Musical essays (art and amateurism; basics of the art of singing; Leonore in “Fidelio” and Else in “Lohengrin”). CH Beck'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 1897.
  • Musical essays. New series (The National in Music; “Wilhelm Tell”. Schiller's drama and Rossini's opera; Goethe's “Faust” and Gounod's “Margarete”; the leitmotif as a stylistic principle). CH Beck'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 1899.
  • Four songs with accompaniment by pianoforte. A. Schmid, Munich (1900).
  • Heinrich Vogl in memory and legacy. Carl Haushalter, Munich 1900.
  • Mozart. With a portrait of the artist by Doris Stock. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1908.
  • Beethoven. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1913.
  • Franz Schubert and the German song. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1916.
  • German music presented on a historical and national basis. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1917 (2nd edition 1920).
  • Carl Maria von Weber. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1919.
  • Robert Schumann. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920.
  • Introduction to Richard Wagner's works and writings. Velhagen & Klasing, Leipzig 1921.
  • Robert Franz. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1923.
  • The music lover. Common introduction to music. Franckh'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1923.

literature

  • Wilhelm Zils (Hrsg.): Intellectual and artistic Munich in autobiographies. Max Keller, Munich 1913.
  • Paul Frank: Concise Tonkünstler Lexicon, hardcover. For musicians and music lovers, founded by Paul Frank, reworked by Wilhelm Altmann . 12th edition, Carl Merseburger, Leipzig 1926.
  • Hermann Abert (Hrsg.): Illustrated music lexicon. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1927.
  • Hugo Riemann (Ed.): Hugo Riemanns Musik-Lexikon. 11th edition, Hesse, Berlin 1929.
  • Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. de Gruyter, Berlin 1931.

The Munich city archive keeps a collection of contemporary newspaper articles on Hermann von der Pfordten.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ by King Maximilian of Bavaria on August 11, 1854 "with the renewal and confirmation of the old nobility held by his forefathers, as a sign of his benevolence and in recognition of his services to himself and his legitimate offspring in the hereditary baron"
  2. ↑ married 1844; had a fatal accident on July 22, 1873 at the train station in Weesen , Switzerland
  3. ↑ Pfordten, Hermann Freiherr von der in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on August 25, 2017.
  4. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1873/74.
  5. ^ Hermann von der Pfordten in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)Template: BMLO / Maintenance / Local ID different from Wikidata
personal data
SURNAME Pfordten, Hermann von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfordten, Ludwig Hermann Freiherr von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1933
Place of death Munich