Moritz Bauer (musician)

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Moritz Max Bauer (born April 8, 1875 in Hamburg ; died December 31, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German doctor , musicologist and composer .

Life

Bauer's father was the Hamburg merchant Moses Max Bauer. His second marriage was to  Clara Elisabeth van Praag from the Netherlands . Like her son, both were Jewish . He passed his matriculation examination at the Hamburg Wilhelms- Gymnasium . He then studied in Munich , Strasbourg and Freiburg medicine . Following his doctorate in Freiburg in 1900, he studied musicology with Hermann Kretzschmar in Leipzig . In Zurich his second doctorate in the Dr. phil. He then trained at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. Iwan Knorr trained him in music theory , Siegmund von Hausegger in conducting .

After his state examination , he served as a military doctor for a year . From 1906 to 1926 he was a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory. During this time he also headed the Piano Pedagogical Institute in Frankfurt. In 1914 he completed his habilitation and received an extraordinary professorship for musicology at the Frankfurt Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences, a predecessor institute of the Goethe University in Frankfurt . During the First World War he  had to serve as a doctor from 1914 to 1916. From 1923 he became university music director and head of the Frankfurt Collegium musicum . He was the founder of the musicological institute of the university. Bauer was chairman of the Frankfurt Bach Community for many years .

Bauer had been married to Johanne Adeline Meißner (1876–1907) since 1904. Their son Klaus Jürgen Bauer (1905–1937) became a physicist  and composer.

Works (selection)

medicine

  • Contribution to the histology of the gizzard of birds . Bonn 1910 (dissertation (Dr. med.)).
  • Contributions to the anthropological study of the hard palate . Zurich 1904 (dissertation (Dr. phil.)).

Musicological writings

  • Contributions to the knowledge of Franz Schubert's songs . Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1914 ( habilitation thesis ).
  • The songs of Franz Schubert . Leipzig 1915.
  • Ivan Knorr. A memorial sheet . Frankfurt am Main 1916.
  • Introductory words to the Schubert celebration at the University of Frankfurt on November 27, 1928 . Frankfurt am Main 1928.
  • Franz Schubert and the ballad. Ceremonial lecture to the local group Ffm of the German Music Society and the Frankfurt Society of Goethe Friends on December 9, 1928 in the Frankfurter Hof .
  • Commemorative speech given on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy , Frankfurt am Main, 1909
  • On the form in the symphonic works of Anton Bruckner , in: Festschrift Hermann Kretzschmar for his 70th birthday , 1918. pp. 12-14

Compositions

  • Two songs for deep voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte ( op 1.) . Munich 1906.
  • Six songs by Theodor Storm for a medium voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte (op. 2) . Munich 1900.
  • 28. Psalm “When I call to you, Lord, my God” for three-part female choir, soprano solo with accompaniment of the organ and the pianoforte (op. 3) . Leipzig 1903.
  • Seven songs for a medium voice with piano accompaniment (op. 4) . Leipzig 1905.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Moritz Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1932
Place of death Frankfurt am Main