Max Schneider (music historian)

Max Schneider (born July 20, 1875 in Eisleben , † May 5, 1967 in Halle ) was a German music historian .

Life

Schneider studied musicology with Hermann Kretzschmar and Hugo Riemann and composition with Salomon Jadassohn at the University of Leipzig . After his time as second conductor in Halle from 1897 to 1901, he continued his studies of music history with Kretzschmar. In 1904 he moved to Berlin , where he worked from 1905 to 1915 as a "scientific assistant" (a kind of assistant ) at the Royal Library . He taught orchestration at the Institute for Church Music and received the title of professor in 1913. In 1915 he accepted a professorship at the University of Breslau ; two years later he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the beginnings of figured bass. In Breslau he was director of the Evangelical Church Music School in Silesia from 1927 . In 1928 he succeeded Arnold Schering as Professor of Musicology at the University of Halle . After 1933, Schneider was a member of the organizations National Socialist Teachers 'Association , National Socialist German Lecturers' Association , NS-Altherrenbund , Reichsluftschutzbund . From the post of Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, which he had held since 1936, he resigned in December 1938 “because of the consequences of the ' Rosenberg Policy '”.

After 1945 he joined the Free German Trade Union Federation . He taught well beyond his retirement in 1950 until 1962. He also taught music history and score playing at the State University for Theater and Music in Halle, which was founded in 1947 .

In 1947 Schneider published the New Bach Society's 1940–1948 Bach Yearbook (37th volume. In it: Arnold Schering died) at Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig and was co-editor of the Archives for Musicology (1918–1927) and the Handel Yearbook (1955 –1967), the Halle Handel Edition (from 1955) and the series Music History in Pictures (from 1961). He dealt almost exclusively with the history of music from the late 16th to the middle of the 18th century, particularly with performance practice and the source material. Schneider published important studies on the biography of Johann Sebastian Bach as well as the sources of his works and helped Georg Philipp Telemann to rehabilitate.

From 1955 to 1967 he was President of the Georg Friedrich Händel Society in Halle. In 1961 he was awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle district .

Schneider's grave is in the Laurentius cemetery in Halle (Saale).

Christoph Wolff: Schneider, Max. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . 2nd ed. by Stanley Sadie. Macmillan, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3
Richard Schaal: Schneider, Max. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 14 (Riccati - Schönstein). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1134-9 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
Gerhard Scheuermann: Das Breslau-Lexikon, Volume 2. Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 1994, ISBN 3-87466-157-1 , p. 1515.