Kurt Sydow

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Kurt Sydow (born June 6, 1908 in Stettin ; † June 7, 1981 in Osnabrück ) was a German music teacher , composer , musicologist , lecturer and university rector.

Career

His parents were the engineer Heinrich Sydow and Marie Sydow, née Schanzenberg. In his hometown of Stettin , he attended the Bismarck secondary school from 1914 to 1924. He then studied from 1925 to 1927 at the orchestral school in Berlin, then from 1927 to 1929 at the University of Music in Berlin with the Austrian violinist Josef Wolfsthal (1899–1931).

From 1929 to 1932 he worked as a music educator at the strongly musically oriented reform pedagogical school by the sea on the North Sea island of Juist , where he worked with Martin Luserke and Eduard Zuckmayer . From 1932 to 1939 he was active at the Musikheim Frankfurt (Oder) under Georg Götsch . Jens Rohwer was one of his students on Juist and in Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1939 he became a music teacher at the Conradinum in Danzig-Langfuhr, but then took part in the Second World War as a soldier.

In the post-war period he was concertmaster at the Stadttheater Weimar from 1945 to 1947 . In 1948 he was a lecturer in music and music education at the Bederkesa University of Education, which was temporarily set up , then from 1948 to 1955 he was a lecturer in music education and performing games at the Göttingen University of Education . He was also active as an orchestra, choir and singing leader.

In 1955 he became a professor at the Adolf Reichwein University in Osnabrück, where he was rector from 1962 to 1965. His retirement took place in 1973. Walter Heise succeeded his chair at the newly founded University of Osnabrück .

Kurt Sydow married Anni Hahn in 1936. The marriage resulted in a son and three daughters.

Functions

1962–1965 Rector of the Adolf Reichwein University in Osnabrück

Engagements (selection)

  • In the Freideutschen Kreis, a loose umbrella organization formed after the Second World War for activists of the youth movement , Kurt Sydow became known through his work in shaping the convent in Osnabrück in 1980; he designed an exhibition about Martin Luserke .

Works

  • Beyond the mountain there is great need . Rye rider. Potsdam 1934
  • Danced canons! Society of Friends of the Musikheim. Frankfurt (Oder) 1936
  • The instrument play . Hanseatic publishing house. Hamburg 1936
  • The golden harp . Hanseatic publishing house. Hamburg 1938
  • Secular amateur play . Scientific publishing company. Schroedel. Hanover 1950
  • The happy pumpkins . Courtier. Munich 1950
  • Words about the music . Möseler. Hamburg 1952
  • The flying suitcase . Bear Rider. Kassel 1952
  • Ways of elementary music education . Bear Rider. Kassel 1955
  • Eduard Zuckmayer on his 70th birthday . In: Musik im Studium, 1960, pp. 264–265.
  • Music in Elementary Schools and Teacher Training: A Conference Report . Bear Rider. Kassel 1961
  • Language and music. Lectures and reports from the second conference on music in elementary schools and teacher training . Möseler. Hamburg 1966
  • Listening to music and looking at work at school - Music Pedagogical Forum Gießen 1968 . Möseler. Wolfenbüttel 1970
  • The journey through life of a great narrator - Martin Luserke (1880–1968) . In: Yearbook of the Archives of the German Youth Movement 12 (1980). ISBN 978-3-88551-004-8 .
  • Spray on the waves. From the world and life view of the poet Martin Luserke . 1980. ISBN 2-00-911008-0 .
  • Archives of the Youth Music Movement (Ed.): The German Youth Music Movement in documents of its time from its beginnings to 1933 . Selection and compilation of the documents, Wilhelm Scholz and Waltraut Jonas-Corrieri, with the help of Heinrich Schumann and Kurt Sydow. Möseler. Wolfenbüttel 1980. ISBN 978-3-7877-3930-1 .

literature

  • Walter Heise (Ed.): Kurt Sydow (1908–1981). Musical pedagogical contributions from three decades . Epos-Music, Osnabrück 1993
  • Stephan Sehlke: Pedagogues - Pastors - Patriots: Biographical handbook on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945 . Books on Demand 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-9497-8 , pp. 375-376.
  • Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 406-408.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Fröde, Walter Heise, Rudolph Weber: The same endeavors in separate countries: Music education in the two German states after 1945 - contemporary witnesses report . University of Music, Theater and Media. Hanover 2007. ISBN 978-3-931852-77-1 . P. 19.
  2. ↑ Werner Schwarz: Pomeranian Music History. Part I. Historical overview and life pictures . Issue 28. Böhlau. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1988. ISBN 978-3-412-04382-7 . P. 220.
  3. ↑ Wilfried Gruhn: History of Music Education: A cultural and social history from singing lessons in educational pedagogy to aesthetic-cultural education . Cloud. Hofheim am Taunus 2003. ISBN 978-3-936000-11-5 . P. 238.
  4. ^ Hans-Christian Schmidt: Handbook of Music Education. Volume 1: History of Music Education . Bear Rider. Kassel 1986. ISBN 978-3-7618-0781-1 . P. 530.
  5. ^ Institute for East German Music (eds.) / Werner Schwarz / Franz Kessler / Helmut Scheuchen: Music history of Pomerania, West Prussia, East Prussia and the Baltic countries . Laumann. Dülmen 1989. ISBN 978-3-89960-070-4 . P. 50.
  6. ↑ Music education and amateur play . Kurt Sydow (1908-1981). In: Yearbook of the Archives of the German Youth Movement. Ludwigstein Youth Castle Foundation, 1980. p. 161.
personal data
SURNAME Sydow, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, music teacher and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH June 7th 1981
Place of death Osnabrück