Ludwig Schiedermair

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Ludwig Schiedermair (born December 7, 1876 in Regensburg , † April 30, 1957 in Bensberg ) was a German musicologist . In his musicological treatises he dealt with the history of opera as well as with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven . In 1914 he published the first critical complete edition of the letters of Mozart and his family.

Life

The son of the senior government councilor Ludwig Schiedermair and his wife Elisabeth born. Kammerl graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Regensburg. After studying history, German literature and musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and completing his doctorate in 1901 at the University of Erlangen , Schiedermair went to the University of Leipzig to study with Hugo Riemann in 1904 and to study with Hermann Kretzschmar at the University of Berlin in 1905 to improve his musicological knowledge expand. In 1906 he received his habilitation at the Philipps University of Marburg and worked there first and from 1912 at the University of Bonn as a private lecturer and in 1915 as an associate professor . There he founded the musicological seminar in 1919, became its first director and from 1920 a full professor . On March 26, 1927, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's death, the Beethoven Archive , which he also founded, was opened, and he was its first director until 1945.

After the seizure of power of the Nazis , the self-Gleichschaltung took place under his leadership, the Beethoven-Haus with the introduction of the leader principle. Likewise, the ousting of the Jewish members from the Beethoven-Haus association and the Jewish musicians from the concert programs. From 1932 he was also chairman of the Beethoven-Haus association and director of the Beethoven archive. In 1934 he published the work The design of ideological ideas in Beethoven's folk music .

From 1937 to 1939 he was President of the German Society for Musicology and held the opening speech of the musicological conference in this position on May 27, 1938 as part of the Reichsmusiktage . In 1936 he received the Culture Prize of the City of Bonn and the Beethoven Medal of the City of Bonn , and in 1941 the Golden Mozart Medal of the Salzburg Mozarteum . During the Second World War , he also worked with the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg .

In 1946 he retired. Schiedermair was a founding member of the Max Reger Institute in 1947 , which he headed until 1953. In 1952 he became an honorary member of the Society for Music Research.

Fonts (selection)

  • Artistic endeavors at the court of Elector Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria. In: Research on the history of Bavaria. Vol. 10 (1902), H. 1 and 2, pp. 82–148 (dissertation, University of Erlangen, July 24, 1901).
  • Contributions to the history of the opera at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. 2 volumes. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1907/1910 (habilitation thesis, University of Marburg, 1906).
  • Bayreuth Festival in the Age of Absolutism: Studies on the History of German Opera. Kahnt, Leipzig 1908.
  • The letters of WA Mozart and his family: First critical complete edition. 5 volumes. Georg Müller, Munich 1914.
  • Introduction to the study of music history: guiding principles, sources, compilations and advice for academic lectures. Zierfuss, Munich 1918; 4th edition 1947.
  • Mozart: his life and works. Beck, Munich 1922; 2nd, revised and enlarged edition: Dümmler, Bonn 1948.
  • The young Beethoven. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1925 (reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1978); 2nd, revised edition: Böhlau, Weimar 1939; 3rd, revised edition: Dümmler, Bonn 1951.
  • The German opera. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1930; 2nd, extended edition: Dümmler, Bonn 1940; 3rd, revised edition 1943.
  • Music on the Rheinstrom: developments and entities, shapes and fates. Staufen, Cologne 1947.
  • Musical encounters: experience and memory. Staufen, Cologne 1948.
  • German Music in Europe: Historical Basics. Böhlau, Münster 1954.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guido Krawinkel the leader principle in the birth house , General-Anzeiger Bonn, May 11, 2017, p. 11
  2. ^ Special exhibition The Beethoven House in Bonn during the Nazi era . (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 4, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kultur-in-bonn.de  
  3. ↑ Thomas Phleps: A quiet, dogged and tenacious struggle for continuity - musicology in Nazi Germany and its past-political coping. In: Isolde v. Foerster et al. (Ed.): Music research - National Socialism - Faschismus , Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488. online Uni Giessen
  4. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 520.
personal data
SURNAME Schiedermair, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1957
Place of death Bensberg