Paul Stefan

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Paul Stefan (born November 25, 1879 in Brno , Austria-Hungary ; † November 12, 1943 in New York ; actually Paul Stefan Grünfeld , changed name to Paul Stefan Gruenfeld in 1906 ) was an Austrian music historian , writer, and music and dance critic.

Life

Paul Stefan became the son of the leather goods manufacturer, member of the Moravian state parliament and Turkish consul Arnold Abraham Grünfeld (December 24, 1848 - May 17, 1919) and his wife Annie, née Haas (May 23, 1859 - December 27, 1936) Crown land Moravia of the Danube Monarchy born. The parents converted to the Catholic faith. His younger brother was the economist Ernst Grünfeld . In 1898 he moved to Vienna with his family.

Paul Stefan studied philosophy, law, art history and music at the University of Vienna and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. Privately he took music lessons from Arnold Schönberg and Hermann Graedener . From 1904 to 1910 Stefan worked as secretary of the Central Association of Austrian Industrialists . During the First World War , he first served as an officer in a cavalry unit and was later assigned to the war archives.

Paul Stefan was one of the most notable modern music writers and critics of his time. From 1921 onwards he wrote for the Musikblätter des Anbruch and from 1922 was Paul Amadeus Pisk's successor until the magazine was discontinued in 1937, its chief editor. He was also a music and dance critic for many years for the Viennese newspapers Die Hour and Die Bühne as well as for other European and American newspapers, including the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Musical America. Yet he was “basically neither a praise nor a blasphemer; but his judgment, of an almost French delicacy and lucidity, was certain. Many laypeople thank his essays, notes and notes about concerts for their knowledge of what music is. "

In 1922 he was one of the founding members of the International Society for New Music, along with Rudolf Réti, Egon Wellesz and others, and subsequently held the post of Vice President of the Austrian Section for several years. He also worked as a lecturer at the Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.

After the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938, as a Jew and because of his anti- National Socialist articles, he had to emigrate. He first went to Winterthur in Switzerland for half a year and then lived in Paris until the occupation of France in 1940, where he mainly worked for radio. The next stop on his flight was Lisbon, where Stefan wrote a book on Portuguese music on behalf of the government and translated some of his works into Portuguese.

In April 1941 he arrived in the USA , where he continued to work successfully as a music journalist and lecturer.

Paul Nettl , Erika Wagner and Hugo Jacobi spoke at the funeral service organized for Stefan on March 11, 1944 . Rudolf Kolisch , Lona Friedman and Fritz Jahoda provided the musical accompaniment.

Paul Stefan had been married to the contralto Jella Braun-Fernwald since 1940 .

The revocation of the doctorate by the National Socialists was reversed by a resolution of the Senate of the University of Vienna on April 10, 2003.

Awards

Medal for Services to Music of the Czech Government
Awarded the Austrian title of Professor
Awarded the Czechoslovak Order of the White Lion 5th grade

Caricature by Carl Leopold Hollitzer

Works

Moods . Poems. Pierson, Dresden / Leipzig, 1900.
The homeland seeker. Experiences and dreams 1899–1902 . O.-ö. Publishing company, Linz 1903.
Umbria. The country - its becoming - its art. A hiking book . Together with Ernst Diez. Wiener Dürerhaus, Hugo Heller & Cie, Vienna / Leipzig 1907.
Gustav Mahler's legacy. A contribution to the latest history of the German stage and Mr. Felix von Weingartner . Hans von Weber, Munich 1908.
Gustav Mahler. A study of personality and work . Piper, Munich 1910
Reprint of the 4th edition 1912: Piper, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-492-02721-0 .
Oskar Fried . Becoming an artist . Berlin 1911.
The music festival Vienna . Edited by the Academic Association for Literature and Music in Vienna. H. Heller et al. Cie., Vienna 1912.
The grave in Vienna. A chronicle since 1903 . Reiss, Berlin 1913.
The unheard call. Appearances - experiences - questions . Ed. Academic Association for Literature and Music in Vienna. Schaubühne publishing house, Charlottenburg 1914.
The enmity against Wagner . A historical and psychological investigation . Bosse, Regensburg 1914.
The new house . A half-century Viennese opera play and what was going on . Strache, Vienna / Leipzig 1919.
New music and Vienna . EP Tal, Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 1921.
Doctor . A portrait from the unknown Vienna . Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1922.
Anna Bahr-Mildenburg . Wila Wiener Literarian Anstalt, Vienna 1922 ( The rendering , 1st row, volume 6).
The Vienna Opera . Wila Wiener Literarian Anstalt, Vienna 1922 ( The rendering , 2nd row, volume 3/4).
Mahler for everyone . Wila Wiener Literarian Anstalt, Vienna 1923 ( The rendering , 2nd series, volume 7).
Max Reinhardt . An artist's way home to Vienna . Goldschmiedt-Verlag, Vienna-Leipzig, 1923.
Hofmannsthal . An imaginary address . Wila Wiener Literarian Anstalt, Vienna 1924 ( The rendering , 3rd row, Volume 2).
Arnold Schoenberg . Change - legend - appearance - meaning . Zeitkunst-Verlag, Vienna / Berlin / Leipzig and Zsolnay, Berlin / Vienna / Leipzig, 1924.
Austrian art. Warning and manifest . G. Langer, Munich 1924.
Franz Schubert . 3rd volume of the 9th annual series of the People's Association of Book Friends . Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1928.
- New edition: Ullstein, Vienna 1947.
The Vienna Opera. Your story from the beginning to the present day . With pictures by Thomas Wozak. Augartenverlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1932.
Dvořák . Life and work . Together with Otakar Šourek. Passer Verlag, Vienna 1935.
Antonin Dvořák . Translation of the new version by Paul Stefan into English by YW Vance. Greystone Press, New York 1941.
Reprinted by Da Capo Press, Plenum Publishing Corp., New York 1971.
Arturo Toscanini . With a foreword by Stefan Zweig . Herbert Reichner, Vienna / Leipzig / Zurich 1935.
Bruno Walter . With contributions by Lotte Lehmann , Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig . Herbert Reichner. Vienna / Leipzig / Zurich 1936.
The magic flute . Origin - meaning - secret . Herbert Reichner, Vienna / Leipzig / Zurich 1937.
Don Giovanni . The operatic legend of Don Juan, the tempter and seeker . Herbert Reichner, Vienna / Leipzig / Zurich 1937.
The sold bride . Herbert Reichner, Vienna / Leipzig / Zurich 1937.
Abstract about Portuguese music . Lisbon 1940.
Great modern composers . Together with Willi Reich and Oscar Thomson. The World Publishing Company, Cleveland / New York 1943; including the contributions by Paul Stefan:
Leoš Janáček . Pp. 143-150
Arnold Schönberg . Pp. 267-277.
That was last summer . Novel. Edited from the estate by Alfred Zohner. Luckmann, Vienna 1946.
Georges Bizet . Life, environment and work of the composer of Carmen . Atlantis, Zurich 1952.

As editor

ETA Hoffmann : Musical novels and essays . Selection and afterword by Paul Stefan. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig undated (1914; Insel-Bücherei. No. 142).
Under the Habsburg banner. Two war years 1914/16 . Together with Alois Veltzé. Ullstein, Berlin / Vienna 1916.
The playback. Vienna present and its possessions. A collection of small books . Series 1–3 in 20 volumes each. Wila, Vienna 1922–1924.
25 years of new music . Universal Edition yearbook 1926 . Together with Hans Heinsheimer . Book decorations by Carry Hauser , Universal Edition, Vienna / Leipzig / New York 1926.
Dance in this time . With contributions and a. by Mary Wigman , Hugo v. Hofmannsthal, Vera Skoronel , Rudolf von Laban , Oskar Schlemmer , Andrei Lewinson, Ernst Ferand, Ellen Tels, Berthe Trümpy, Gertrud Bodenwieser , Egon Wellesz, Jaap Kool . Universal-Edition AG, Vienna / New York 1926.
Opera . Yearbook 1927 of the Universal Edition 1927. Together with Hans Heinsheimer. Universal Edition, Vienna 1927.
Singing . Universal Edition yearbook 1929. Together with Hans Heinsheimer. Book decorations by Jakob Best.Universal Edition, Vienna 1928.

Forewords, introductions and contributions

Oskar Kokoschka : Dramas and Pictures . With an introduction by Paul Stefan. Wolff, Leipzig 1913.
Joseph Gregor : Baroque theater . Preface by Paul Stefan. Wila Wiener Literarisches Anstalt, Vienna / Leipzig 1922 ( The rendering . 1st row, volume 1).
Natalie Bauer-Lechner: Memories of Gustav Mahler . Edited by J. Killian. Introduced by Paul Stefan. EP Tal & Co, Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 1923.
Moissi . The person and the artist in words and pictures . Compiled by Hans Böhm. With a contribution by Paul Stefan. Eigenbrödler, Berlin 1927
Richard Strauss , Lothar Wallerstein (revision): WA Mozart. Idomeneo . Introduction by Paul Stefan. Heinrichshofen's publishing house, Magdeburg; Bote & Bock, Berlin 1932.

As translator

Tacitus : Germania . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig undated (1913; Insel-Bücherei No. 77).
Alphonse Daudet . Tartarine from Tarascon . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig undated (1913; Insel-Bücherei No. 42).
Paul Verlaine : Collected Works . Edited by Stefan Zweig. 2 volumes. Volume 1: Collected Poems. A selection of the best broadcasts. Volume 2: Life Documents. Co-translator alongside Theodor Däubler , Richard Dehmel , Hanns von Gumppenberg , Walter Hasenclever , Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth , Albrecht Schaeffer , Alfred Wolfenstein and others. a. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1922.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve : Literary portraits from France of the XVIIth – XIXth centuries Century . Edited by Stefan Zweig. Co-translator alongside Stefan Zweig, Raoul Auernheimer , Gustav von Festenberg a . a. Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt / M. 1923.
Giuseppe Verdi : letters . Edited and introduced by Franz Werfel . Zsolnay, Vienna / Berlin 1926
Verdi. The man in his letters . Edited and selected by Franz Werfel and Paul Stefan. Translated by Edward Downes. LB Fischer, New York 1942.
Theodore Dreiser : The Titan. Trilogy of Desires . Co-translator alongside Marianne Schönhoff and Wilhelm Cremer. Zsolnay, Vienna 1928.
Giovanni Papini : Saint Augustine . Zsolnay, Vienna 1930.

literature

Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . (Volume 6). Chernivtsi 1932, p. 604f.
Obituary by Heinrich Eduard Jacob in construction from November 19, 1943
.pdf Gruenfeld Paul Stefan. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 90.
The music in the past and present . (Volumes 12 and 16). 1st edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1965 and 1972.
International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . (Volume 2 / IL-Z). Ed .: Herbert A. Straus, Werner Röder. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1109.
Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 620.
Walter Pass , Gerhard Scheit , Wilhelm Svoboda : Orpheus in exile. The expulsion of Austrian music 1938–1945 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85115-200-X .
Siglinde Bolbecher , Konstantin Kaiser : Lexicon of Austrian exile literature . In collaboration with Evelyn Adunka, Nina Jakl and Ulrike Oedl. Verlag Deuticke, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-216-30548-1 , p. 608 f.
Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 474 f.
Austrian music lexicon . Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 , p. 2288.

Web links

Commons : Paul Stefan - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: List of publications and PDF references - sources and full texts

Literature by and about Paul Stefan in the catalog of the German National Library

References and comments

^ Obituary notice for Arnold A. Grünfeld. In: Neue Freie Presse , May 23, 1919, p. 15 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
^ Olga Stieglitz, Gerhard Zeillinger: The sculptor Richard Kauffungen (1854–1942). Between Ringstrasse, Künstlerhaus and women's art school. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-52203-5 , p. 472.
^ Heinrich Eduard Jacobs: Paul Stefan . In: The structure of November 19, 1943, p. 5.
↑ His last Viennese address was Vienna 8th , Hamerlingplatz 7.
See: Adolph Lehmann 's general housing anzeiger from 1938, Volume 1, 1st name directory. Residents and businesses. P. 1257 Steden - Stone Waiter ( 2nd column, middle )
↑ Paul Stefan tells . In: Structure of May 2, 1941, p. 10.
^ Structure of March 3, 1944, p. 10 and March 17, 1944, p. 14.
↑ online memorial book of the University of Vienna , accessed on August 8, 2016.
↑ Awards and Appointments. In: Neues Wiener Journal , July 5, 1935, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj
↑ ^a ^b This work was still published under his actual name Paul Stefan Grünfeld
↑ According to Alfred Zohner, Stefan completed the English manuscript with the title A political novel of the Salzburg festival days on June 29, 1943 in Concord, MA . It is unclear whether Stefan wrote the German version himself; the English version was never published.

personal data
SURNAME	Stefan, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gruenfeld, Paul Stefan (real name); Grünfeld, Paul Stefan (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian musicologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brno
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 1943
Place of death	New York City

[1] Obituary notice for Arnold A. Grünfeld. In: Neue Freie Presse , May 23, 1919, p. 15 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp

[2] Olga Stieglitz, Gerhard Zeillinger: The sculptor Richard Kauffungen (1854–1942). Between Ringstrasse, Künstlerhaus and women's art school. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-52203-5 , p. 472.

[3] Heinrich Eduard Jacobs: Paul Stefan . In: The structure of November 19, 1943, p. 5.

[4] His last Viennese address was Vienna 8th , Hamerlingplatz 7.
See: Adolph Lehmann 's general housing anzeiger from 1938, Volume 1, 1st name directory. Residents and businesses. P. 1257 Steden - Stone Waiter ( 2nd column, middle )

[5] Paul Stefan tells . In: Structure of May 2, 1941, p. 10.

[6] Structure of March 3, 1944, p. 10 and March 17, 1944, p. 14.

[7] rial book of the University of Vienna , accessed on August 8, 2016.

[8] Awards and Appointments. In: Neues Wiener Journal , July 5, 1935, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj

[Grünfeld-9] This work was still published under his actual name Paul Stefan Grünfeld

[10] According to Alfred Zohner, Stefan completed the English manuscript with the title A political novel of the Salzburg festival days on June 29, 1943 in Concord, MA . It is unclear whether Stefan wrote the German version himself; the English version was never published.