Otto Schumann (musicologist)

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Otto Emil Schumann (born June 7, 1897 in Hanover , † June 15, 1981 in Bayreuth ) was a German musicologist and university professor. As an editor and freelance writer, he wrote a lot on music and literature.

life and work

Schumann's father was Gustav Bruno Schumann , editor-in-chief of the Volkswacht , the first social democratic daily newspaper. The mother was Anna Emilie Schumann geb. Morgner .

During the First World War Otto Schumann in 1915 was the real grammar school branch of the Council Gymnasium Bielefeld a high school. He joined the Imperial Navy and took part in the entire war as a naval officer . Dismissed after the November Revolution, he studied musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , the Georg August University in Göttingen and the University of Leipzig . From November 1922 he headed the economic and political editorial department of the Neue Leipziger Zeitung . Later he was a music critic for her . In addition, he was a lecturer at the Newspaper Institute of the University of Leipzig from 1923 to 1934 . From 1935 he lived in Traubing and later in Stechendorf , Bayreuth district . He earned his living as a freelance writer in the fields of music , theater and literature . He also translated books from English and French .

Both during the Nazi era and in the post-war period in Germany , he followed anti-Semitic perspectives that shaped the music discourse in the young Federal Republic of Germany . The composers reviled by Schumann include Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Gustav Mahler , Paul Hindemith and Arnold Schönberg .

Schumann wrote two dozen books on opera , operetta , choral music and drama as well as orchestral , chamber and piano music . He also published a literary guide and handbook for authors . Some bestsellers achieved numerous new editions.

Fonts

  • Meyer's opera book . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1938 (reprint Berlin 1948).
  • Meyer's concert guide . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1936.
  • Meyer's concert guide. Choral Music Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1938.
  • History of German Music . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1940.
  • Albert Lortzing, 1801–1851 , Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig, 1941.
  • Orchestral book . Hübener, Berlin 1949.
  • Schumann's drama book . Hübener, Wilhelmshaven 1950.
  • Schumann's chamber music book . Hübener, Wilhelmshaven 1951.
  • Handbook of piano music . Hübener, Wilhelmshaven 1952.
  • Schumann's Choral Music and Piano Song Book . Hübener, Wilhelmshaven 1953.
  • Paths to understanding music , Fackelverlag, Stuttgart, 1963.
  • The great actor . Pawlak, Herrsching 1981.
  • Chamber music manual . Hübener, Wilhelmshaven 1983.
  • Basics and techniques of the art of writing . Pawlak, Herrsching 1983.
  • with Franz Krezdorn: The new literary guide - poetry from all over the world . Seehamer, Weyarn 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Birth certificate in the registry office, Hannover City Archive, call number 178-3224 / 1897.
  2. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia
  3. ↑ Rainer Hauptmann: This music was murdered! Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy or a history of cultural anti-Semitism in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  4. ↑ Josef Wulf: Music in the Third Reich: A Documentation , S. Mohn, 1963, p. 400 ff
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schumann, Otto Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1981
Place of death Bayreuth