Kurt Reinhard (musicologist)

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Kurt August Georg Reinhard (born August 27, 1914 in Gießen ; † July 18, 1979 ibid) was a German ethnomusicologist and composer .

Professional background

Kurt Reinhard studied composition , musicology , art history and ethnology in Cologne , Leipzig and Munich . In 1938 he received his doctorate in Munich with a study on the music of Burma . From 1939 Reinhard worked in the instrument collection of the State Institute for German Music Research in Berlin. After the end of the Second World War he worked as a music critic and from 1947 to 1952 headed the private music teacher seminar at the Peters Conservatory in Berlin.

In 1948 he was lecturer for comparative musicology at the Free University of Berlin called and qualified as a professor there in 1950. From 1952 to 1968 he headed the in 1963 ethnological music department renamed Phonogram Archive at the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin, today's Ethnological Museum . His student Dieter Christensen was his successor from 1968 to 1972. In 1957 Reinhard was appointed professor at the Free University and headed the comparative musicology department there until his retirement in 1977 .

Importance as a music ethnologist

Reinhard dealt with general music-ethnological and instrumentological topics, dealt with the music and musical instruments of Asia, Oceania, Africa and South America and dealt with the music of Turkey in particular. In 1960 he published a classification of musical instruments in which he divided the musical instruments into large regions according to morphological criteria, in order to bring instruments of the same type according to their musical use closer to one another than is the case with the well-known Hornbostel-Sachs system .

He has toured Turkey several times since 1955 and researched its folk and art music. He was supported in this by his wife Ursula Reinhard, who herself worked as a researcher and supported her husband primarily in the foreign language and literary matters of his research. She continued some of Kurt Reinhard's work after his death. In 1984 a first and standard-setting German-language monograph on Turkish music was finally published posthumously in two volumes. In 1973 Kurt Reinhard was honored by the Turkish government for his services to research into Turkish music.

Works

Musicological writings (selection)

  • The music of Burma . Series of publications by the Musicology Department of the University of Munich V, Würzburg 1939.
  • The music of exotic peoples . Berlin 1951.
  • Chinese music . Kassel, Eisenach 1956.
  • Contributions to a new classification of musical instruments . Mf XIII, 1960.
  • Turkish music . In: Publications of the Museum of Ethnology . Volume IV, 1, Berlin 1962.
  • with Ursula Reinhard: On the fiddle my… folk songs from the Eastern Turkish Black Sea coast . In: Publications of the Museum of Ethnology . Volume XIV, 3, 1968.
  • Introduction to ethnomusicology . In: Contributions to school music . Volume XXI, Wolfenbüttel 1968.
  • with Ursula Reinhard: Turquie . In: Les traditions musicales . Volume IV, Paris 1969.
  • Twenty years of rebuilding the Berlin phonogram archive . In: Yearbook for musical folklore and ethnology . Volume VI, 1972.
  • Basics and results of research into Turkish music . In: AMI . Volume XLIV, 1972.
  • Comments on the Aşık, the popular singers of Turkey . Asian Music, 1975, pp. 189-206.
  • The music care of Turkish nomads . In: Journal of Ethnology . 1975, pp. 115-124.
  • with Ursula Reinhard in the series pocket books on musicology . Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1984.

Furthermore, Kurt Reinhard wrote many articles, primarily on folk music and art music in Turkey.

Compositions (selection)

  • Game music for fl. and 3 strings . 1936.
  • Theme with six variations for Fl. and string orchestra. 1936.
  • III. Piano concerto . 1947.

He also wrote chamber music, songs and chants, male choirs and cantatas.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rüdiger Schumacher: Kurt Reinhard . In: Music in the past and present . Person part, Volume 13. Stuttgart 2005, Sp. 1524f.
  2. ↑ Kurt Reinhard: Contribution to a new system of musical instruments. In: Die Musikforschung, Volume 13, Issue 2, April – June 1960, pp. 160–164
  3. ↑ Konrad Witt: The song of the shepherds - music and story (s) . In: Yörük: Nomad life in Turkey . Trickster, Munich 1994, pp. 141-148.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Riemann Musik Lexikon . Person part L – Z. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1961, p. 485.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Carl Dahlhaus (Ed.): Riemann Musik Lexikon . Supplementary volume, personal section LZ. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1975, p. 469.
  6. ↑ a b Albert Kunze (ed.): Yörük: Nomadenleben in Turkey . Trickster, Munich 1994, p. 169.
personal data
SURNAME Reinhard, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhard, Kurt August Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnomusicologist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1979
Place of death to water