Oswald Körte

Oswald Körte (born August 27, 1852 in Flatow , West Prussia, † August 27, 1924 in Berlin ) was a German officer (major), musicologist and composer .

Life

Oswald Körte came from the Lower Saxon family Körte ; he was the son of the lawyer Hermann Körte and his wife Marie, née Oswald. At the insistence of his father, he was unable to comply with his wish to deal with music at work. After the grammar school in Glogau , which he attended until 1870, he joined the army in the same year. After participating in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71, he remained in the army and only left in 1898 with the rank of major. At the age of 46 he moved to Berlin to devote himself to music. He studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin with Wilhelm Dilthey , Oskar Fleischer , Max Friedlaender , Ludwig Geiger , Friedrich Paulsen , Erich Schmidt , Carl Stumpf and Karl Weinhold . In 1901 he was at the Faculty for Dr. phil. doctorate on lute and lute music up to the middle of the 16th century. This dissertation is still cited in musicology today and was last reprinted in 2016. Körte continued to live in Berlin, now as a musicologist. In addition, he was the composer of Singspiele and wrote the music for works by Hans Christian Andersen and Joseph Victor von Scheffel .

Oswald Körte was married to Hedwig Hammacher (1860–1934), a daughter of Friedrich Hammacher , lawyer, member of the Reichstag and business leader. The couple had six children. The daughter Anna Dorothea Körte (1892–1967) married the painter Alfred Particle . In 1904, Körte had the "Villa Körte" built at Dorfstrasse 42 in Ahrenshoop . In 1904, along with Otto Kaysel , Adolf Miethe and Paul Müller-Kaempff, Körte was a co-founder and long-time member of the board of the Ahrenshooper Association for charitable purposes, popularly known as the "Beautification Association".

Fonts (selection)

Lute and lute music until the middle of the 16th century. With special consideration of the German lute tablature . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1901, inaugural dissertation (digitized archive.org ). Unchanged reprints: 1968 and 1974.
New edition (Classic Reprint): Forgotten Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-332-63116-2
also reprinted in supplements of the International Music Society , first series. 1901-1903. No. 3.

composer

Princess and Swineherd , opera for the youth in three acts based on HC Andersen, score for solos, choir and orchestra, Ries & Erler, Berlin 1902.
Wandering moods , score, trio for violin, viola and violoncello, N. Simrock, Berlin 1904.
The Song of Ahrenshoop , text and music, 1908
Exit , poem by J. v. Scheffel, score for four-part mixed choir (or one-part with piano accompaniment), 1909
Hermann and Friedrich Körte in the war years 1914, 1915 , with Hedwig Körte, 1916.

literature

Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 108
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5250 .

Web links

Literature about Oswald Körte in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ Oswald Körte: Lute and lute music up to the middle of the 16th century… P. 54 (curriculum vitae), see writings.
The literature sources name Glogau as the place of birth.
↑ Crawford Young , “Lute and Lute Music up to the Early Sixteenth Century. A research report 100 years after Oswald Körte ” . In: Hans-Martin Linde , Regula Rapp (Ed.): Provocation and Tradition. Experiences with early music . Stuttgart / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-476-01663-3 .
↑ Körte, Oswald . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1905, Part 1, p. 1056. “Dr. phil., major a. D., W15, Kurfürstendamm 212 III. (Tel. Charl. 3139) “(kept under changing addresses until 1924).

personal data
SURNAME	Körte, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer (major), musicologist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 27, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Flatow , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	August 27, 1924
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Oswald Körte: Lute and lute music up to the middle of the 16th century… P. 54 (curriculum vitae), see writings.
The literature sources name Glogau as the place of birth.

[2] Crawford Young , “Lute and Lute Music up to the Early Sixteenth Century. A research report 100 years after Oswald Körte ” . In: Hans-Martin Linde , Regula Rapp (Ed.): Provocation and Tradition. Experiences with early music . Stuttgart / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-476-01663-3 .

[3] Körte, Oswald . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1905, Part 1, p. 1056. “Dr. phil., major a. D., W15, Kurfürstendamm 212 III. (Tel. Charl. 3139) “(kept under changing addresses until 1924).