Nathan Notowicz

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Nathan "Noto" Notowicz (born July 31, 1911 in Tyczyn , Rzeszów district , Austria-Hungary , † April 15, 1968 in East Berlin ) was a German musicologist and composer .

Life

Notowicz was the son of a merchant. The family moved to Munich in 1913 , where Notowicz attended elementary school. In Düsseldorf he studied at the Conservatory, including musicology with Ernst Bücken and composition with Hermann Unger , where he became a teacher of music theory in 1932. After the Nazis came to power , he emigrated to Amsterdam in 1933 , where he studied with Willem Andriessen and Stefan Askenase and worked as a music teacher and musician. At the same time he was active in the communist resistance in Holland; In 1940 he joined the KPD and was head of the KPD group in Holland in 1944/45 under the code name "Gerard Fischer".

Grave of Notowicz in the Dorotheenstädtischer Kirchhof I in Berlin

In 1946 he returned to Germany. First he worked as a KPD functionary in Düsseldorf ; In 1948 he moved to the SBZ . In the GDR, which was founded the following year, he worked as a musicologist and composer. In 1950 he became professor of music history and prorector of the newly founded German University of Music in East Berlin . In addition to the founding rector of the university, Georg Knepler , his professor colleague Harry Goldschmidt , the editor-in-chief of the specialist journal Musik und Gesellschaft , Eberhard Rebling , and the professor of music sociology at the Humboldt University , Ernst Hermann Meyer , Notowicz was one of the leading Marxist musicologists of the young GDR .

At the same time, he made a name for himself as an association functionary: SED member Notowicz headed the GDR Composers Association, Association of German Composers and Musicologists (VDK) as the first secretary since it was founded in April 1951. Notowicz became general secretary of the GDR Music Council, which was founded on May 9, 1962 elected; President was Hanns Eisler . Notowicz also sat on the Presidium of the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany . In June 1964 he became president of the newly founded German-Belgian Society in the GDR .

After Hanns Eisler's death, Notowicz promoted the establishment of the Hanns Eisler Archive at the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin in 1963 . The aim of the archive headed by Notowicz was to publish a complete scientific and critical edition; the first volume of the Gesammelte Werke (EGW) was published in 1968, a music volume completed by Notowicz shortly before his death. As early as January 1958 (and thus before Eisler's more well-known conversations with Hans Bunge ), Notowicz had had several long conversations with Eisler for the GDR radio , which were published in book form in 1971.

His wife Ann Notowicz was an employee of the IDFF and later chairwoman of the IVVdN in Berlin-Köpenick .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • (as editor) Alexander Serow : Essays on music history . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1955 (translated by Felix Loesch)
  • Experiences in the Soviet Union. Composers and musicologists from the German Democratic Republic report on their study trip . Society for German-Soviet Friendship, Berlin 1955 (with Walther Vetter , Ottmar Gerster , Walther Siegmund-Schultze and Ernst Hermann Meyer )
  • (as editor with Jürgen Elsner ) Hanns Eisler : Source references . On behalf of the Hanns Eisler Archive at the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin. German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1966
  • (as editor) Hanns Eisler: Collected Works, Series 1, Volume 18: New German folk songs, chansons, children's and youth songs . German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1968
  • We're not talking about Napoleon here. We are talking about you! Conversations with Hanns Eisler and Gerhart Eisler . Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin 1971 (translated and commented by Jürgen Elsner)

literature

  • Karl Laux: Nathan Notowicz in memory . Music research. 21 (1968), pp. 269-271.
  • Karl Laux: In Memoriam Nathan Notowicz . German Bach Festival of the New Bach Society. 43: 15-16 (1968).
  • Walther Siegmund-Schultze: Nathan Notowicz . Music in school. 19, pp. 302-303 (1968).
  • Torsten Musial, Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Notowicz, Nathan . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Notowicz, Nathan , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933-1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , pp. 704f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Not winners in history . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 4, 2001.
  2. ^ "Socialist Realism" according to notes . In: Die Zeit , No. 14/1956.
  3. ^ New Germany of June 7, 1964.
  4. ↑ The edition was continued by Manfred Grabs and Eberhardt Klemm ; By 1989, three further volumes of music and five volumes of writings were published by VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig. For the history of the edition cf. the foreword on Hanns-Eisler.com.
  5. ↑ The fist. To the memorial on April 23rd. Bund der Antifaschisten Köpenick, accessed on June 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Notowicz, Nathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Notowicz, Noto (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyczyn , Rzeszów District, Galicia
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1968
Place of death East Berlin