Ludwig Misch

Ludwig Misch (born June 13, 1887 in Berlin , † April 22, 1967 in New York ) was a German musician and musicologist .

Life

Misch studied musicology at the University of Berlin and also graduated as Dr. jur. From 1913 to 1921 he worked as an operetta conductor in Osnabrück , Berlin, Aachen , Essen , Strasbourg and Bremen . He also worked as a music advisor for the Berliner Lokalanzeiger until 1933 and taught from 1922 to 1931 at the Stern Conservatory , whose commemorative publication he wrote from 1850 to 1925. From 1933 he was only able to work in various Jewish institutions and was later obliged to do forced labor . Through his marriage to Anni Brix, an "Aryan", he escaped deportation and survived the Second World War.

In 1947 he moved to New York, where he worked as a conductor and music writer.

Misch's estate is in the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.

Books

• The criminal protection of feelings , Breslau 1911 (Diss., Heidelberg)
• Johannes Brahms , Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klasing, 1913
• with Wilhelm Klatte , The Stern Conservatory of Music in Berlin 1850–1925. Festschrift for the 75th anniversary , Berlin 1925
• Beethoven Studies , Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1950
• with Donald W. MacArdle , New Beethoven Letters , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957
• The factors of unity in the multiple movements of Beethoven's works. Attempt of a theory of the unity of the work style , Munich-Duisburg: Henle, 1958
• New Beethoven Studies and Other Topics , Munich: Henle, 1967

Essays

• Where are Beethoven's sketches for the tenth symphony? , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , vol. 116 (1955), pp. 132-134
• Another mutilated canon by Beethoven , in: Die Musikforschung , vol. 8 (1955), pp. 325–327 (about WoO 196)

Web links

• Ludwig Misch Collection, AR 2073 Archival Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York
• Literature by and about Ludwig Misch in the catalog of the German National Library