Paul Nettl

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Paul Nettl (born January 10, 1889 in Hohenelbe , Austria-Hungary ; died January 8, 1972 in Bloomington , Indiana ) was an Austrian-American musicologist.

Life

Paul Nettl was the son of the paper manufacturer Karl Nettl and Johanna Beck. From 1909 to 1915 he studied law at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague , parallel to this musicology with Heinrich Rietsch and music composition with Gerhard von Keußler and in Vienna with Guido Adler . After obtaining his legal doctorate in 1913, he received his doctorate in 1915 with the dissertation Studies on the Game Aria along with a contribution to the history of Austrian suite composition in the 17th century . During the First World War he was drafted as a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian Army and was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit. In 1920 he received his habilitation with the script Wiener Tanzmusik in the second half of the 17th century . In 1928 he married the pianist Gertrude Hutter (1905–1952); the American ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl (1930–2020) was her son. He was married to Margaret von Gutfeld for the second time, to whom he dedicated the Beethoven encyclopedia.

From 1920 onwards, Nettl was a private lecturer at the University of Prague, where he became head of the musicological institute in 1927, but was not appointed to the free professorship in 1930 because of his Jewish origins. From 1933 he was musical director of the German-speaking department of the ČSR radio and was involved in the democratic refugee welfare for refugees from the German Reich and from authoritarian Austria . In 1939 he was able to flee with his family, his parents who had remained in occupied Czechoslovakia were murdered in the Theresienstadt ghetto , and his mother-in-law Clara Hutter survived three years in prison.

In the USA, Nettl was a professor at Westminster Choir College in Princeton , New Jersey, until 1945 . From 1946 until his retirement in 1959 he taught at Indiana University Bloomington and had lectureships at Roosevelt University in Chicago and at the Cincinnati Conservatory . Nettl had lectureships at the University of Vienna and was a member of the Central Institute for Mozart Research in Salzburg.

Nettl has published and also written popular accounts on various periods in music history. The term utility music may have been coined by Nettl in 1921.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Beethoven encyclopedia . Secausus, NJ: Carol Publ. Group, 1994
  • Mozart and masonry . New York: Da Capo Press div. Of Plenum Publishing Corp., 1970
  • Luther and music . New York: Russel, 1967
  • Dance and dance music . Freiburg i. Br .: Herder, 1962
  • Mozart and the dance . Zurich: Classen, 1960
  • Beethoven and his time . Frankfurt a. M .: Fischer Library, 1958
  • WA Mozart . Frankfurt / M .: Fischer library, 1955
  • The little prophet of Bohemian Brod . Esslingen: Bechtle, 1953
  • Goethe and Mozart . Esslingen: Bechtle, 1949
  • The story of dance music . New York: Philosophical Library, 1947
  • Mozart and the Royal Art . Berlin: Verlag Franz Wunder, 1932
  • Music and dance at Casanova . Prague: Society of German Book Friends, 1924
  • Old Jewish minstrels and musicians . Prague: Flesch, 1923

literature

  • Nettl, Paul. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 17: Meid – Phil. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-22697-7 , pp. 283-291.
  • Walter Thomas Atcherson: A musicologist in two worlds. The musicological and literary works of Paul Nettl . Vienna, Schönborn 1962
  • Bruno Nettl : Nettl, Paul . In: Friedrich Blume (Ed.): MGG . tape 12 . Bärenreiter Verlag, 2004, Sp. 1004-1005 .
  • Article Paul Nettl , in: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Macmillan, London 1980. Vol. 13, p. 119
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol. II, 2. Munich: Saur 1983. ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 852f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Josef Hoffer ; Alexander Poglietti : Viennese dance music in the second half of the seventeenth century . Anh .: Partita ex Vienna. Arranged by Paul Nettl. unchangeable Copy of the edition Graz: Akad.Dr.- und Verl.-Anst., 1960.
  2. ↑ Democratic refugee welfare see Kurt Grossmann
personal data
SURNAME Nettl, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenelbe , crown land of Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1972
Place of death Bloomington , Indiana