Lucie Dikenmann-Balmer

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Lucie Dikenmann-Balmer (born October 21, 1902 in Bern ; † 1980 ) was a Swiss musicologist . She was the first female professor of musicology in Europe, ahead of Yvonne Rokseth (Strasbourg 1948) and Anna Amalie Abert (Kiel 1950).

Life

Balmer was born in Bern in 1902. She grew up in Chur and Neuchâtel . In Chur, she attended the music school, which she graduated with a piano teaching diploma in Hamburg in 1925 . She then worked for the Swiss Music Education Association . In 1928 she completed the extraordinary Matura at the Institut Humboldtianum in Bern. She then studied musicology at the University of Bern and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. Following your teacher Ernst Kurth to the chair was associated with many difficulties. From 1947 to 1967 she was an associate professor at the Department of Musicology at the University of Bern. Sándor Veress was her successor .

Fonts (selection)

  • Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and its spiritual foundations . Atlantis Verlag, Zurich 1952.
  • Tone system and church tones with Johannes Tinctoris . Olms, Hildesheim [u. a.] 1978, ISBN 3-487-06687-4 . (= also dissertation, University of Bern, 1935)

literature

  • Franziska Rogger: The doctoral hat in the broom cupboard . Bern 1999, p. 162
  • Christine Fischer: Lucie Dikenmann-Balmer - one of the earliest university careers for a woman in musicology . In: Catherine Bosshart-Pfluger, Dominique Grisard, Christina Späti (eds.): Gender and knowledge. Contributions to the 10th Swiss Conference of Women Historians 2002 . Chronos, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-0340-0526-1 , pp. 249-265.

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personal data
SURNAME Dikenmann-Balmer, Lucie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 1980