Max Ernst Unger

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Max Unger (born May 28, 1883 in Taura , Saxony ; † December 1, 1959 in Zurich ) was a German musician and musicologist who did a great job as a Beethoven researcher.

Life

Unger, the son of a factory owner, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1904 to 1906 and from 1908 at the University of Leipzig with Heinrich Zöllner and Hugo Riemann . In 1911 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Muzio Clementi . After participating in the First World War , he was editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in 1919/20 . From 1932 to 1939 he lived in Zurich and compiled a catalog of the valuable Beethoven collection of the industrialist Hans Conrad Bodmer there , which he later bequeathed to the Beethoven House in Bonn. In 1939 Unger moved to Volterra near Pisa . While Unger was denounced by the National Socialist cultural community as a "music Bolshevik" in 1935 , he now collaborated with the National Socialists and from 1942 or 1943 worked for the Italian task force Reichsleiter Rosenberg and in the music department of the Führer’s commissioner for monitoring the entire intellectual and ideological training Education of the NSDAP with. In this function he was involved in cataloging the music literature stolen from Jewish property in Paris, including the music library of the harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, who had fled into exile .

He wrote for the Nazi magazine Musik im Kriege .

In 1957 Unger returned to Zurich from Italy.

Max Unger was one of the most important Beethoven researchers of the first half of the 20th century. The Beethoven-Haus acquired his written estate and his library in 1961 .

Fonts

  • In the footsteps of Beethoven's “ Immortal Beloved ”. Langensalza 1910.
  • Muzio Clementi's life. Langensalza 1913.
  • Contributions to the biography of Johann Ladislaus Dussek . In: Neue Musik-Zeitung. Vol. 35 (1914), pp. 170-174.
  • Beethoven on a complete edition of his works , Bonn 1920.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven and his publishers SA Steiner and Tobias Haslinger in Vienna, Ad. Mart. Schlesinger in Berlin. Berlin / Vienna 1921.
  • Beethoven's handwriting. Bonn 1926.
  • A Swiss Beethoven collection. Catalog. Zurich 1939 (catalog of the HC Bodmer collection).
  • A Faust opera plan by Beethoven and Goethe . Regensburg 1952.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 7.315.
  2. ^ 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. 626.
personal data
SURNAME Unger, Max Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unger, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Taura , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1959
Place of death Zurich