Hugo Botstiber

Hugo Botstiber (born April 21, 1875 in Vienna , † January 15, 1941 in Shrewsbury , Great Britain ) was an Austrian musicologist.

Life

Hugo Botstiber came from a Jewish family, but converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1897. He studied with Robert Fuchs and Guido Adler and took private lessons with Alexander von Zemlinsky . In 1900 he became an employee in the library and in 1905 secretary and office director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . From 1912/13 to 1938 he was General Secretary of the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft . In addition, he was also a member of the commission for the publication of the “Monuments of Music in Austria” and gave a. a. 1904 and 1911 the music book out of Austria . After his age-related retirement, he had to emigrate to England because of his origins after the “Anschluss” of Austria , where he still worked as a private scholar.

Fonts (selection)

• Richard Heuberger (Red.), -: Music book from Austria. A yearbook of music care in Austria and the most important music institutions abroad . K. Fromme, Vienna / Leipzig 1904, OBV . (1904, first year, and 1911, eighth year).
• Robert Schumann ’s symphonies. Explanations with example notes . Master's Guide , Volume 13, ZDB -ID 1306234-7 . Schlesinger, Berlin 1910, OBV .
• History of the overture and the free orchestral forms . With notes attached. Small handbooks of music history by genre, Volume 9, ZDB -ID 121778-1 . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1913, OBV .
• Beethoven in everyday life. A contribution to the centenary. With numerous picture and sheet music supplements . Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag, Vienna 1927, OBV .
• Josef Haydn . Volume 3. Using the materials left by Carl Ferdinand Pohl. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1927, OBV .

literature

• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 434.
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 150.
• Andrea Harrandt: Botstiber, Hugo. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
• Rudolf Klein:  Botstiber, Hugo. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 3 (Bjelinski - Calzabigi). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1113-6  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
• Robert Lackner: Hugo Botstiber and the Wiener Konzerthaus: The life and work of a cultural manager from the fin de siècle to the Anschluss. Böhlau, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-20579-678-7 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Botstiber Hugo. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 104.

Web links

• Entry on Hugo Botstiber in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Literature by and about Hugo Botstiber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short CV with picture
• Part of Hugo Botstiber's estate , Vienna Library in the City Hall
• Mosco Carner:  Botstiber, Hugo. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
• Hugo Botstiber in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In contrast to the literature cited in the article and in part also the web links, MGG and New Grove give 1942 as the year of death.
2. ↑ Anna L. Staudacher: "... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith". 18,000 exits from Judaism in Vienna, 1868–1914: names - sources - dates . Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. u. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-55832-4 , p. 73 ( limited preview in Google book search).