Hubert Unverricht
Hubert Johannes Unverricht (born July 4, 1927 in Liegnitz , Lower Silesia Province ; † August 14, 2017 ) was a German musicologist . He was a professor at various universities.
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Unverricht attended the Johanneum in his hometown Liegnitz from 1938. After his expulsion in 1946 and a short stay in the Kleinwelka camp near Bautzen, he passed his Abitur in Großenhain in 1947. He then studied musicology (music history, systematic musicology and ethnomusicology), German and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1951 . In 1952 he moved to the Free University of Berlin , where he completed his studies in 1953 with the dissertation Audible role models in instrumental music up to 1750. Investigations into the prehistory of program music .
After completing his doctorate, Unverricht worked at the Berlin Musical Instrument Museum of the Institute for Music Research Prussian Cultural Heritage and then in the international department of GEMA in Berlin. 1956–1962 he was a research assistant at the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne. In the winter semester of 1962/63 he moved to the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz as a research assistant at the Musicological Institute. There he completed his habilitation in 1967 with a thesis on the history of the string trio (= Mainzer Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 2, Tutzing 1969) and became a private lecturer in musicology and music history. 1980–1990 he took over the chair for musicology at the Catholic University of Eichstätt .
His main research areas are the period from 1600 onwards, especially the classical and early romantic periods, the history of chamber music, the regional music history of the Rhineland, Bavaria and Silesia, as well as source studies and editing techniques and musical copyright.
Hubert Unverricht was a founding member of the collecting society VG Musikedition and a member of the first board of the VG Musikedition (from 1966 to 1973). In 2000 he was appointed an honorary member of VG Musikedition by the general assembly.
Among Unverricht's offices and honorary offices, those for the Working Group for Middle Rhine Music History (1974–1980) and the Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien in Würzburg stand out. Since 2004 he has been honorary chairman of the Historical Commission for Silesia , honorary member of the Friends and Patrons of the Silesian Cultural Association and the Liegnitz Historical Society. 1995–2001 he was also vice-president and president of the Heimatwerk Silesian Catholics.
Publications
Unverricht's list of publications contains over 800 titles. Further information can be found in the festschrifts dedicated to him and in biographical articles about him.
Festschriften and honors
- Festschrift Hubert Unverricht on the occasion of his 65th birthday, ed. by Karlheinz Schlager, Tutzing: Schneider 1992 (Eichstätter treatises on musicology).
- Gundolf Keil , Academic ceremony for the 75th birthday of Hubert Unverricht, in: Schlesischer Kulturspiegel 37 (2002), p. 45.
In 2008 he received the Silesian Culture Prize of Lower Saxony .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hubert Unverricht in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ulrich Mazurowicz: Failure , Hubert . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Incomplete, Hubert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Incorrect, Hubert Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liegnitz , Lower Silesia Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 2017 |