Herwig Knaus

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Herwig Knaus (born September 21, 1929 in St. Veit an der Glan ; † April 17, 2020 in Vienna ) was an Austrian musicologist and publicist . He lived and worked in Vienna.

education

Knaus attended elementary school in St. Veit / Glan and the Realgymnasium in Klagenfurt , where he passed his Matura in 1948. From 1948 to 1954 he studied music at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna ( composition , piano, flute, tuba, choir and orchestral conducting), and graduated with a diploma. At the same time he was enrolled in musicology and German studies at the University of Vienna from 1948 to 1959 , where he received his doctorate in 1959. His third degree from 1954 to 1958 was for the teaching post at secondary schools, also at the University of Vienna, which he completed with the qualification to teach (music and German).

Professional activities

From 1954 to 1956 Knaus worked as a conductor and composer on small stages in Vienna and at the theater in der Josefstadt . After receiving his teaching qualification, he was an educator at the Bundeskonvikt for boys in Gallgasse 1020 Vienna from 1958 to 1966 and teacher at the Rainergasse 1050 Vienna high school from 1959 to 1976. From 1963 to 1995 he worked as a professor at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna for music history, theory of forms, handicraft, cultural studies and folk song studies. At the same time, Knaus was a lecturer in music history and form theory at the Musicological Institute of the University of Vienna from 1964 to 1994 and inspector for music education at the City School Council for Vienna from 1976 to 1993 .

Publications (selection)

  • The musicians in the archives of the Imperial Court of Justice ( meeting reports from the phil.-hist. Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, publications from the Commission for Music Research ), 3 volumes Vienna 1967–1969
  • Musical language and work structure in Robert Schumann's "Liederkreis" , Wiesenfelden 1974
  • Studies on Alban Berg's Violin Concerto (1975), in: Die Wiener Schule Ed. Rudolf Stephan , Darmstadt 1989
  • (together with Gottfried Scholz ): Forms in Music , 2 volumes Vienna 1988–1989
  • Franz Schubert . From suburban child to composer , Vienna 1997
  • (together with Wilhelm Sinkovicz ): Vienna 1848 , Vienna 1998
  • (together with Wilhelm Sinkovicz): Johann Strauss (sic), Vienna 1999
  • (together with Wilhelm Sinkovicz): Alban Berg . Lifelines , St. Pölten 2008
  • Murder, rape and other crimes in old Vienna , Vienna 2011
  • Anna Nahowski & Kaiser Franz Josef , Vienna 2012
  • Alban and Helene Berg. An exchange of letters , Wilhelmshaven 2015
  • Alban Berg, correspondence with his family , Wilhelmshaven 2016
  • (together with Wilhelm Sinkovicz): Arnold Schönberg and Alban Berg . Teachers and students , Vienna 2020.

Editorial activity

  • Works for keyboard instruments by and around Franz Mathias Techelmann ( Monuments of Tonkunst in Österreich, Vol. 115), Vienna-Graz 1966
  • Zacharias Wertheim - "Medical Topography of Vienna" - Life and Survival in Biedermeier , ed. by Herwig Knaus and Attila Dunky, Vienna 1999
  • Alban Berg . Handwritten letters, draft letters and notes ( source catalogs for music history, vol. 29), Wilhelmshaven 2004
  • Alban Berg. Typewritten and handwritten letters, draft letters, sketches and notes ( source catalogs on the history of music, vol. 34, edited by Herwig Knaus and Thomas Leibnitz ), Wilhelmshaven 2005
  • Alban Berg. Drafts of letters, records, family letters, Das "Bergwerk" (source catalogs for the history of music, vol. 35, edited by Herwig Knaus and Thomas Leibnitz), Wilhelmshaven 2006
  • Altenberg to Zuckerkandl . Letters to Alban Berg , ed. by Herwig Knaus and Thomas Leibnitz, Vienna 2009
  • Correspondence between Alban Berg and Helene Berg . Part I 1900 - 1911 (source catalogs for the history of music vol. 54), Wilhelmshaven 2012
  • Correspondence between Alban Berg and Helene Berg . Part II 1912 - 1919 (source catalogs on music history, vol. 55), Wilhelmshaven 2014
  • Correspondence between Alban Berg and Helene Berg, Part III 1920 - 1935 (source catalogs on music history, vol. 56), Wilhelmshaven 2014
  • Correspondence between Alban Berg and Helene Berg, part IV, register for volumes I - III ( source catalogs for musicology volume 67, edited by Herwig Knaus and Thomas Leibnitz), Wilhelmshaven 2016
personal data
SURNAME Knaus, Herwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Veit an der Glan
DATE OF DEATH 17th April 2020
Place of death Vienna