Johannes Wolgast

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Johannes Friedrich Wolgast (born July 2, 1891 in Kiel , † October 24, 1932 in Leipzig ) was a German musicologist .

Life

Wolgast was born in Kiel as the son of elementary school teacher Johannes Wolgast (1854-1918) and Malwine Petersen († 1918). He attended the scholars' school and grammar school there. At Easter 1914 he passed the Abitur in Schleswig . He then began his studies at the University of Leipzig and at the Conservatory in Leipzig. After the outbreak of World War I , he volunteered and was deployed in Flanders and on the Eastern Front. After an illness he stayed in the garrison in Neumünster until the end of the war.

In autumn 1919 he resumed his studies in Leipzig. Inspired by Karl Straube , he turned to musicology. He studied with Arnold Schering and Hermann Albert , among others . In 1923 he followed Albert to Berlin and received his doctorate there in 1924 on the subject of Georg Böhm , a master of the transition period from the 17th to the 18th century .

Johannes Wolgast worked from 1924 to 1932 as a teacher of musicology at the Leipzig Conservatory . From 1928 he was assistant to Karl Straube at the Church Music Institute in Leipzig .

Scientific work

He redesigned the conservatory in Leipzig into a training center oriented towards university-scientific teaching. Johannes Wolgast also built the Conservatory's library for this purpose.

He published a complete list of the works of the composer Georg Böhm and was co-editor of the magazine Musik und Kirche .

Fonts

  • Georg Böhm: A master of the transition period from the 17th to the 18th century. Phil. Diss. Berlin 1924.
  • Georg Böhm: Complete Works . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. [Multi-part work]
    • Part 1: Piano and Organ Works. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1927.
    • Part 2: Vocal Works. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1932.
  • Karl Straube: A tribute to his musical personality on the occasion of his 25 years in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1928.

literature

  • Erich H. Müller (Ed.): Musicians Lexicon. Limpert, Dresden 1929.
  • Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1931 . 4th edition. Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1931.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fritz Dietrich, Johannes Wolgast † , Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft , year 1932/1933, p. 125.
  2. ↑ Edith Rothe , Hildegard Heilemann : Die Kunst: Bibliography on the history of the fine arts, music, literature and theater, H. Böhlaus Nachsteiger, 1964, p. 162.
  3. ^ Literarisches Zentralblatt für Deutschland, Borsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels, 1932, p. 92.
personal data
SURNAME Wolgast, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolgast, Johannes Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1932
Place of death Leipzig