Hugo Goldschmidt

Hugo Goldschmidt (born September 19, 1859 in Breslau ; † December 26, 1920 in Wiesbaden ) was a German musicologist and provided fundamental work on the history of vocal music .

Life

Goldschmidt was the son of the landlord, first acquired a doctorate in law, and was in Berlin from 1893–1905 . From 1905 co-director of the Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin and became a professor in 1918. He was a student of the Breslau University Music Director Julius Schäffer and himself a baritone singer. He later lived in Nice and Wiesbaden.

Major works

• The 17th century Italian singing method
• Studies on Italian Opera in the 17th Century , 2 vols., 1901/1904
• The Doctrine of Vocal Ornamentation , 1907
• Handbook of German Singing Pedagogy
• Wilhelm Heinse as a music aesthetician , 1909
• The musical aesthetics of the 18th century , 1915

literature

• Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Kurzgefasstes Tonkünstler-Lexikon , Heinrichshofen´s Verlag Wilhelmshaven, 15th edition (1936) p. 201, ISBN 3 7959 0083 2
• Ragnhild Harter:  Goldschmidt, Hugo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 615 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Siegmund Kaznelson (Ed.): Jews in the German Cultural Sector , Berlin 1962
• Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
• Goldschmidt, Hugo. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 9: Glass Green. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-22689-6 , pp. 135-136.