Musicological conference 1938

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The musicological conference of the German Society for Musicology took place on the occasion of the Reichsmusiktage from May 26th to 28th, 1938 in Düsseldorf . At the opening of this largest music conference in National Socialist Germany , Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels asserted that music was the most glorious art in German heritage. It was also the first musicological conference in the Nazi state that was visible to the public.

The musicologist recognized with it the cultural policy Nazi themes, especially "Music and race," "Music and people" and "supremacy of German music" that henceforth - were on their agenda - in addition to the service of the old masters. The central theme “Music and Race” was probably suggested by Goebbels and elaborated by Friedrich Blume in a celebratory speech. The conference was not directly linked to the exhibition Degenerate Music , which took place at the same time .

One motive of the leading heads of musicology - after the exodus of the Jewish and otherwise unpopular scholars - to make a public creed, as it were, was the attempt to escape the increasing political pressure through affirmation , to obtain greater funding for their research projects and to gain their position in the Securing institutions. For quite a few, it also offered the opportunity to express their anti-Semitic and anti-modern resentments .

program

There seems to have been no congress report; the later, scattered publications are added in [square brackets].

Thursday, May 26th, 3 p.m.

  • A: German music (direction J. Müller-Blattau and A. Schmitz)
    • Josef Müller-Blattau (Freiburg): The German in music
    • Hans-Joachim Therstappen (Hamburg): Music in Greater Germany , [in: Deutsche Musikkultur , 3rd year 1938-39, pp. 425–428]
    • Arnold Schmitz (Breslau): New results of regional music research in Silesia
    • Willi Kahl (Cologne): Sociological information on recent Rhenish music history , [in: Zeitschrift für Musik , 106th year 1939, pp. 246-252]
    • Martin Karl Hasse (Cologne): The great masters of music and the German people
    • Walter Gerstenberg (Cologne): Community music and concert , [in: Zeitschrift für Musik , 105th year 1938, pp. 856–860]
  • B: German champions (headed by Th. Kroyer and R. Gerber)
    • Theodor Kroyer (Cologne): German style peculiarities in music
    • Friedrich Noack (Darmstadt): The ethos in German music
    • Walther Vetter (Greifswald): Folk features in Mozart's operas , [in: Zeitschrift für Musik , 105th year 1938, pp. 852–856]
    • Rudolf Gerber (Gießen): Volkstum and Race in the Personality and Art of Johannes Brahms

Friday, May 27th, 9 a.m.

  • A: State and Music (Direction H. Besseler)
    • Heinrich Besseler (Heidelberg): Music and State
    • Gerhard Pietzsch (Dresden): State and Music , [as The care of music by the state , in: Deutsche Musikkultur , 3rd year 1938-39, pp. 464–469]
    • Rudolf Steglich (Erlangen): The elements of musical expression in transition , [in: Deutsche Musikkultur , 3rd year 1938-39, pp. 345–355]
    • Ernst Bücken (Cologne): Music style, music policy and music culture
  • B: Questions in music research (headed by W. Korte)
    • Werner Korte (Münster): The tasks of musicology , [as The basic crisis of German musicology , in: Die Musik , 30. Jg. 1938, pp. 668–674]
    • Theodor Wilhelm Werner (Hanover): The music scholar and reality
    • Ernst Kirsch (Breslau): Consideration of music history at the turning point

Friday, May 27th, 3 p.m.

  • Festive meeting
    • JH Schein: Paduana (Orchestra of the Düsseldorf Bach Society, conductor J. Neyses)
    • Ludwig Schiedermayr (Bonn), President of the DGfM: Welcome address
    • Friedrich Blume (Kiel): Music and Race , [in: Die Musik , 30. Jg. 1938, pp. 736–748.]
    • GF Handel: Concerto grosso B flat major (orchestra ...)

Saturday, May 28th, 9 a.m.

  • Music and Race (directed by G. Frotscher and W. Danckert)
    • Gotthold Frotscher (Berlin): Tasks and Problems of Musical Race Style Research , [in: Guido Waldmann (ed.), Race and Music , Berlin 1939, pp. 102–112]
    • Otto zur Nedden (Weimar / Jena): Music and Race
    • Marius Schneider (Berlin): Fundamentals of musical race research with special consideration of the Indo-European question
    • Helmut Schultz (Leipzig): Folk-like characteristics of instrumental sound , [in: Deutsche Musikkultur , 5th year 1940, pp. 61–64]
    • Wilhelm Heinitz (Hamburg): Racial characteristics in European folk music
    • Werner Danckert (Berlin): Volkstum, Stammesart, Rasse in the light of folk song research , [as Von der Stammesart in Volkslied , in: Die Musik , 32nd year 1940, pp. 217–222]
    • Joseph Schmidt-Görg (Bonn): Acoustic aids in music and race research

literature

  • Pamela M. Potter: Scientists in conflict , in: Albrecht Dümling / Peter Girth (eds.), Degenerate Music: A Reconstruction with Commentary . Düsseldorf 1988, pp. 62-66. Contains a detailed description of the lectures.
  • 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 - Fascism , Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488. online Uni Giessen
  • Thomas Schipperges: The Heinrich Besseler Files - Musicology and Science Policy in Germany 1924 to 1949 , Munich: Strube Verlag 2005, pp. 160–163.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive for Music Research , 3rd year 1938, p. 254 f. Quoted here from: Isolde v. Foerster, Christoph Hust and Christoph-Hellmut Mahling (eds.): Music research - National Socialism - Fascism . Mainz 2001, pp. 487-488. on-line