Karl Geiringer
Karl Johannes Geiringer (born April 26, 1899 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † January 10, 1989 in Santa Barbara , California) was an American musicologist of Austrian descent.
family
Geiringer comes from the family of the Hungarian textile manufacturer Ludwig Geiringer († 1932) and his wife Martha nee Wertheimer. His siblings were Ernst Geiringer, who later received a doctorate, later mathematician and private lecturer Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973) and later engineer Peter Geiringer.
Life
Karl Geiringer studied music history at the University of Vienna with Guido Adler and his assistant at the time Wilhelm Fischer as well as with Curt Sachs and Johannes Wolf in Berlin and received his doctorate in Vienna in 1923. He took composition lessons from Hans Gál .
Geiringer first worked at the Vienna Philharmonic Publishing House and in 1930 became librarian of the collections of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . Already a leading musicologist and music editor at that time, he published important works on the life of German composers and discovered previously unknown compositions by great masters, for example the Eight Polonaisen (1828) by Robert Schumann .
After the “ Anschluss of Austria ” he had to leave Austria as a Jew in 1938 and fled to London. Here he worked for the BBC and worked for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and as a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music . In 1940 he moved to the United States and in the same year received an apprenticeship at Hamilton College in New York. In 1942 he was appointed to Boston University (School of Fina and Applied Arts), where he worked for the next 21 years. In 1959 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1962 he accepted a professorship at the University of California , where he retired in 1972. Since 1986 he has been a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
His sister, Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), was a mathematician and university professor.
Awards
- 1959: Appointment as a member (“Fellow”) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- President of the American Musicological Society twice
- Honorary membership in the American Musicological Society
literature
- Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . Wilhelm Limpert, Dresden 1929, p. 1644.
- Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Macmillan, London 1980. (? Article, Volume, Page?)
- Walter Pass , Gerhard Scheit , Wilhelm Svoboda : Orpheus in exile. The expulsion of Austrian music 1938–1945 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85115-200-X .
- Darryl Lyman: Great Jews in Music . Jonathan David Publishers, New York 1986, ISBN 0-8246-0315-X .
- 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. 3123.
- Austrian music lexicon . Volume 2. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Geiringer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karl Geiringer, 89, Musicologist And Composers' Biographer, Dies , obituary in The New York Times , January 12, 1989 (American)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jewish weekly. The truth. Jewish weekly. The truth. XLVIII. Volume, Vienna, June 17, 1932, number 25, p. 7 - Deaths ( Memento from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.3 MB), accessed on April 3, 2013
- ^ Karl Geiringer obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geiringer, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Geiringer, Karl Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American music researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1989 |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara , California |