Melos (magazine)
Melos was a German-language music magazine. It was brought into being in February 1920 by the conductor Hermann Scherchen as an organ of the New Music Society , which was also founded by Scherchen in 1918 .
The central theme was contemporary music and the communication of the ideas of musical expressionism to a wide audience. An interdisciplinary approach was sought, which also included contact with other arts. A Russian-language magazine of the same name, published in St. Petersburg in 1917, and the music sheets des Anbruch, published from 1919 by Universal Edition , especially dedicated to the work of Arnold Schönberg and his circle, served as inspiration .
In 1921, Scherchen handed the editorial team over to Fritz Fridolin Windisch . The magazine, which initially appeared every six months, was now published monthly, from August 1922 to 1924 the publication was completely discontinued due to inflation.
From 1924 Hans Mersmann published the magazine, including topics such as jazz and electroacoustic music . From the end of 1926, the previously uncertain publishing situation could be stabilized by a connection to the Schott publishing house . In 1933 Heinrich Strobel , who was soon afterwards driven into internal emigration , took over the publication, which was followed in 1934 by Ernst Laaff with a follow-up project called Neues Musikblatt . In 1943 this was forcibly merged with the remaining German music magazines on music in the war .
From November 1946 Melos appeared again, initially again under the editorship of Heinrich Strobel, later that of Gerth-Wolfgang Baruch . Since 1972 the magazine has only appeared every two months. 1975-1979 was Melos economic reasons under the title Melos / NZ music with the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik merged, headed by Carl Dahlhaus , Hans Oesch , Ernst Thomas and Otto Tomek .
In 1984, on the initiative of Wilhelm Killmayer , Siegfried Mauser and Wolfgang Rihm , Melos was revived . The quarterly publication was ended in 1988 - again for economic reasons. In 1992 a Melos yearbook for piano music was published .
Individual evidence
literature
- Stephan Schulze: "Melos" - the story of an extraordinary music magazine. In: Yearbook for Communication History , 1st year, 1999, pp. 173–191.
Web links
- Data on the history of the magazine "Melos" on the Schott Music website