Oscar Paul

This article is about the musicologist Oscar Paul. For other people see Oskar Paul .

Oscar Paul

Oscar Paul (born April 8, 1836 in Freiwaldau in Silesia , † April 18, 1898 in Leipzig ) was a German musicologist .

Life

Paul attended grammar school in Görlitz before studying theology in Leipzig from 1858 . At the same time he entered the Leipzig Conservatory and took private piano lessons with Louis Plaidy and music theory with Moritz Hauptmann and Ernst Friedrich Richter . During his studies in the winter of 1858/59 he became a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli (now the German Choir ). After receiving his doctorate in 1860, Paul turned completely to music and completed his habilitation in 1866 with the thesis The absolute harmonics of the Greeks at the University of Leipzig as a private lecturer in musicology, where he was appointed professor in 1872.

Paul published Moritz Hauptmann's postponed doctrine of harmony (1868) and wrote his own textbook on harmony (1880), a German translation of the five books De Musica by Boëthius (1872), a history of the piano (1868) and a handbook of musical art (Leipzig 1870–1873).

Paul founded the music newspapers Tonhalle (1868) and Musikalisches Wochenblatt (1870), but soon withdrew from both. For this he edited the musical section of the Leipziger Tageblatt for many years .

literature

• Alfred Einstein : Hugo Riemanns Musiklexikon. 2 volumes. 11th edition. Berlin 1929.
• Paul, Oscar. In: Music in the past and present. Kassel 1994-2008.
• Albert Thierfelder :  Paul, Oskar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 766 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Complete directory of the Paulines from summer 1822 to summer 1938, Leipzig 1938, page 32

Web links

• Short biography on operone.de
• Overview of Oscar Paul’s courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1867 to summer semester 1898)
• Oscar Paul in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig