Kurt Gudewill

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Kurt Gudewill (1966)

Kurt Gudewill (born February 3, 1911 in Itzehoe ; † July 29, 1995 in Kiel ) was a German musicologist and university professor. From 1952 to 1976 he was a professor at the Musicological Institute of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He made an outstanding contribution to research into contactors and songs .

Life

Origin and youth in Itzehoe

Kurt Gudewill came from a Prussian officer family . His uncle, Korvettenkapitän Hans Gudewill (1866–1904), was the commander of the German gunboat SMS Habicht and temporary commander of the protection forces in German South West Africa . Images and an overview of the military career of his older uncle, Lieutenant Colonel Max Hans August Gudewill (born 1865), are preserved in the photo collection of the officers of the XIV Army Corps in the Karlsruhe State Archives Department of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives .

As the son of Major Curt Caspar Adolf Gudewill (1868-1914), who in the first month of the First World War as department commander of the field artillery regiment "Generalfeldmarschall Graf Waldersee" (Schleswigsches) No. 9 in the Battle of the Gette (Battle of Tirlemont ) in Belgium was wounded and died four days later, and his wife Margaretha Louise Auguste (1875–1953), b. Luther, born in Itzehoe in the province of Schleswig-Holstein in 1911 , is counted among the " Luther side relatives".

In Itzehoe he received his first musical and practical lessons and passed a state private music teacher examination in music theory and composition . As his first music teacher he named the Thiel and Hagel pupil Heinrich Laubach, who was the founder of the Itzehoer Konzertchor. Furthermore, according to his own statements, his successor, Otto Spreckelsen , had musical influence on him. Gudewill attended by the High School 1929, the Kaiser-Karl-School , a reform secondary school in his hometown.

Studies and lectureship in National Socialism

From 1929 to 1935 he studied musicology as well as philosophy and phonetics at the University of Hamburg (among others with Walther Vetter and Wilhelm Heinitz ) and in 1930/31 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin (among others with Arnold Schering , Friedrich Blume and Hans Joachim Moser ) . In 1935 he was at Walther Vetter in (historical) musicology at the University of Hamburg with dissertation The linguistic archetype with Heinrich Schütz and its modification by text and musical certain design principles in the works to 1650 to the Dr. phil. PhD. Georg Anschütz took on the second expert opinion . The work was published in 1936 by Bärenreiter-Verlag in Kassel.

In the same year he became a research assistant to Friedrich Blume and a regular lecturer for music at the Musicological Institute in Kiel. In 1944 he completed his habilitation at the Musicological Institute of the Philosophical Faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel on the subject of the form structures of the German song tenors of the 15th and 16th centuries . Excerpts of his work were presented in the first year (1948) of the journal Die Musikforschung under the title On the question of the form structures of German song tenors . Before the end of the war, in January 1945, he received a private lectureship (a course catalog did not appear in the 1945 summer semester, however).

Gudewill was a member (No. 166.492) of the NSDAP from November 1, 1929 to October 1, 1930 (" Old Fighter ") and again from May 1, 1937 (No. 4.782.103). He belonged to the SA (from 1933), the HJ (from 1940) and the NS-Dozentbund (from 1942). In 1933/34, Gudewill , who was enthusiastic about military music , successfully applied for the position of second tenor horn player in the music section of the Heider SA Standard 85 "Dithmarschen" through the mediation of a musician from the Semler orchestra in Itzehoe . During the November pogroms in 1938, she played a decisive role in the destruction of the synagogue in Friedrichstadt . In a review Gudewill favorably discussed the work Lexikon der Juden in der Musik , a publication by the NSDAP Institute for Research into the Jewish Question . He justified his entry into the SA after the war by saying that it was necessary for his professional advancement. The musicologist Fred K. Prieberg (2009) questioned Gudewill's self-assessment and criticized the non-disclosure of his re-entry into the party.

Professorship at the University of Kiel after 1945

From the summer semester of 1946 he was again listed as part of the Kiel teaching staff in the personnel and course directory. In 1948/49 he was a fellow of the British Council visiting professor at the University of Birmingham in England. In 1952 he was given an unscheduled professorship in Kiel while maintaining the music editing position, and from 1960 to 1976 he was Scientific Councilor and Professor of Musicology. He supervised several doctoral projects ( Wulf Konold , Karl-Heinz Reinfandt , Bernd Sponheuer and others) and a music group for early music . His work focused on historical research on Lutheran church music of the 17th century, in particular on the composers Heinrich Schütz and Melchior Franck , as well as on the German song of the 16th century. He played a key role in ensuring that the musical genre “ tenor song ” was able to establish itself as the terminus techicus.

In 1957 he reactivated the working group for new music , which he headed until 1991. In 1959 this was incorporated into the student working groups of the Schleswig-Holstein student union . The working group followed up on the working group for new music initiated by Hans Hoffmann in 1929 , which saw itself as an alternative to a missing IGNM local group. In 2003/07 Friedrich Wedell revitalized the network as a forum for contemporary music at the Musicological Institute of the University of Kiel .

He gave several lectures at the Schleswig-Holstein University Society , the sponsoring association of the University of Kiel.

Music journalist and Schütz researcher

Volumes of the New Schütz Edition

As a reviewer he published from the 1940s a. a. in German music culture , in the archive for music research and in music research . In 1942 he began to publish the five-part anthology Fresh teutsche Liedlein by the Renaissance composer Georg Forster . From 1948 he worked on the first edition of the music lexicon, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), published by his teacher Blume . Gudewill wrote personal and material entries etc. a. he contributed the first comprehensive work on the music history of Gottdorf (1965). He was also the author of personal articles in the Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) and in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (New Grove). In 1956, together with Blume, he founded the new edition series Das Chorwerk . After Blum's death in 1975, he became the sole editor of the series. In 1956, on behalf of the Neue Schützgesellschaft, he became editor-in-chief of the Neue Schütz edition (NSA; Heinrich Schütz: New edition of all works ). He was also instrumental in founding the Schütz Yearbook in 1979 .

From 1956 he was Vice President and from 1975 to 1988, as successor to Karl Vötterle, President of the International Heinrich Schütz Society in Kassel. From 1968 to 1981 he was director of the Musikfreunde Kiel association .

Family and estate

Gudewill, a Protestant, was married to a pianist and had three daughters. The Kiel medical professor Alfred Zimmermann was his father-in-law. His estate is in the music collection of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library in Kiel.

Fonts (selection)

  • The linguistic archetype in Heinrich Schütz and its modification according to textual and musical design principles in the works up to 1650 . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1936.
  • Confession to Heinrich Schütz . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel u. a. 1954 (with Adam Adrio , Wilhelm Ehmann , Hans Joachim Moser and Karl Vötterle ).
  • Franz Tunder and the North Elbingian music culture of his time . Cultural Administration of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 1967.
  • History of the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, 1665–1965 . Volume 5: History of the Philosophical Faculty . Volume 1. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1969 (with Peter Rohs , Meinhart Volkamer , Hans-Georg Herrlitz , Wilhelm Kraiker and Hans Tintelnot ) - treatment of the subjects of music care and musicology.
  • Michael Praetorius Creutzbergensis: 1571 (?) - 1621. Two contributions to his and his chapel anniversary year. Möseler, Wolfenbüttel u. a. 1971 (with Hans Haase).
  • Language criticism, language music, language salad: poetry (= Edition Fischer ). RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-89406-304-1 (2nd edition 1992).

Editions

Autobiographical works

literature

  • Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann , continued by Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rösner: Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstlerlexikon . Second part: additions and extensions since 1937 . Volume 1: A-K . 15th edition, Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1974, ISBN 3-7959-0087-5 , p. 257.
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . 2nd edition, Kopf, Kiel 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-037705-1 , pp. 2727 f. and 8958.
  • Heinrich W. Schwab : Kurt Gudewill (1911-1995) . In: Die Musikforschung 49 (1996) 1, p. 1f.
  • Friedrich Volbehr , Richard Weyl : Professors and lecturers at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel: 1665–1954. With information about the other teaching staff and the university librarians and a directory of the rectors (= publications of the Schleswig-Holstein University Society. NF, No. 7). Edited by Rudolf Bülck , completed by Hans-Joachim Newiger . 4th edition, Hirt, Kiel 1956, p. 201.

Festschrift

  • Uwe Haensel (ed.): Contributions to the music history of Northern Europe: Kurt Gudewill on his 65th birthday . Möseler, Wolfenbüttel u. a. 1978 (includes Bibliography, pp. 342-348).

Web links

Commons : Kurt Gudewill  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the dead 1904 . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog 10 (1907), Col. 41.
  2. ↑ Gudewill, Max Hans August; Lieutenant Colonel, born on March 2nd, 1865 in Verden an der Aller  in the German Digital Library
  3. ^ Kurt Gudewill: Memories of the Semler Chapel in Itzehoe and of musicians from around the city . In: Steinburger Jahrbuch 31 (1987), pp. 286–296, here: p. 290.
  4. ↑ a b cf. Alexander Kern [formerly Church music director]: My youth in Itzehoe / Holstein 1911–1931 . [1984], p. 69 (photo of Gudewill on the cello, 1927), 71, published as PDF ( memento of the original from March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmfast.de
  5. ^ A b Ludwig Schmidt: Luther's side relatives. A supplement to the Luther descendant book (= genealogy and regional history . Vol. 38). Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1984, ISBN 3-7686-5056-1 , pp. 255f.
  6. ↑ Music reports: Itzehoe . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 91 (1924), p. 456.
  7. ^ Kurt Gudewill: Memories of the Semler Chapel in Itzehoe and of musicians from around the city . In: Steinburger Jahrbuch 31 (1987), pp. 286-296, here: p. 287.
  8. ↑ a b Kurt Gudewill: Memories of the Semler Orchestra in Itzehoe and of musicians from around the city . In: Steinburger Jahrbuch 31 (1987), pp. 286-296, here: p. 292.
  9. ^ Peter Petersen: Musicology in Hamburg 1933 to 1945 . In: Eckhart Krause, Ludwig Huber, Holger Fischer (eds.): Everyday university life in the “Third Reich”. The Hamburg University 1933–1945 (= Hamburg contributions to the history of science . Vol. 3). Part 2: Philosophical Faculty, Law and Political Science Faculty . Reimer, Berlin a. a. 1991, pp. 625-640, here: p. 633.
  10. ↑ Doctorates from Walther Vetter , institutsgeschichte-muwi.blogs.uni-hamburg.de, accessed on June 11, 2018.
  11. ^ Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: Personnel and Lecture Directory. Summer semester 1937 . Mühlau, Kiel 1937, p. 22.
  12. ^ IA / AA Abert : Report on the Musicological Institute of the University of Kiel . In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung , No. 2, 1947, p. 36f.
  13. ↑ Kurt Gudewill: On the question of the form structures of German song tenores . In: Die Musikforschung 1 (1948) 2/3, pp. 112–121, here: p. 112.
  14. ^ Kurt Gudewill: Memories of the Semler Chapel in Itzehoe and of musicians from around the city . In: Steinburger Jahrbuch 31 (1987), pp. 286-296, here: p. 293.
  15. ^ Martin Gietzelt, Ulrich Pfeil : Dithmarschen in the Third Reich 1933–1945 . In: Association for Dithmarscher regional studies (ed.): History of Dithmarschen . Boyens, Heide 2000, ISBN 3-8042-0859-2 , pp. 327-360, here: p. 342.
  16. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . Kiel 2009, p. 2727 f.
  17. ↑ Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: Personnel and course directory. Summer semester 1946 . Mühlau, Kiel n.d., p. 10f.
  18. ↑ Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: Personnel and course directory. Winter semester 1960/61 . Mühlau, Kiel n.d., p. 28.
  19. ^ Wulf Konold: Secular cantatas in the 20th century. Contributions to a theory of functional music . Möseler, Wolfenbüttel u. a. 1975, p. 192.
  20. ^ Nils Grosch : Song and media change in the 16th century (= popular culture and music . Vol. 6). Waxmann, Münster a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-8309-2591-0 , pp. 24f.
  21. ^ Uwe Haensel:  Kiel. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  22. ↑ Martin Thrun: New Music in German Musical Life until 1933 (= Orpheus series of publications on basic questions in music . Vol. 76). Volume 2, Orpheus-Verlag, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-922626-75-0 , p. 698.
  23. ↑ Forum for contemporary music ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , komponisten.lernnetz.de, accessed on June 24, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verbindisten.lernnetz.de
  24. ↑ Renate Brockpähler : Handbook on the history of the baroque opera in Germany (= Die Schaubühne . Vol. 62). Lechte, Emsdetten / Westphalia 1964, p. 179.
  25. ↑ Author: Gudewill, Kurt , deutsche-biographie.de, accessed on June 22, 2018.
  26. ↑ Ludwig Finscher :  Blume, Friedrich. 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)
  27. ^ In memoriam Kurt Gudewill . In: Schütz-Jahrbuch 17 (1995), p. 5.
  28. ^ Estates and manuscript collections of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library , shlb.de, accessed on June 13, 2018.
  29. ↑ Friedrich Hermann Schubert : History of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel 1665-1965, Vol. 5: History of the Philosophical Faculty of Peter Rohs, Meinhart Volkamer, Hans-Georg Herrlitz, Wilhelm Kraiker, Hans Tintelnot, Kurt Gudewill, Karl Jordan and Erich Hofmann . In: Historische Zeitschrift 213 (1971) 2, pp. 427-430, here: p. 428.
personal data
SURNAME Gudewill, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Itzehoe
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1995
Place of death Kiel