Peter Bohn

Peter Bohn (born November 22, 1833 in Bausendorf ; † June 11, 1925 in Trier ) was a German musicologist and choral researcher .

Life

Peter Bohn was born the son of elementary school teacher Matthias Bohn (1806–1871) and his wife Anna Maria Neuwinger. The mother came from the well-known Neuwinger forester family, who lived in Mayen in the 17th century before the Kesselstatt hunter Johann Neuwinger (1743-1809) settled in Bausendorf. The six sons of the Bohn-Neuwinger couple also took up some teaching and some forestry jobs.

Peter Bohn became a primary school teacher in Trier in 1852 after training at the Brühl teacher training college, in 1866 he became a senior high school teacher and from then on taught music for almost forty years. In addition to his work as a teacher and various musical activities - e.g. B. as an organist - Bohn made a name for himself as a musicologist. In numerous publications in specialist journals, he examined the theory and practice of medieval music. In particular, Bohn wrote for the magazine Cäcilia of his close friend in Trier chorale researcher and cathedral music director Michael Hermesdorff and later, after this sheet was received, for the Gregorius sheet by Aachen cathedral music director Heinrich Böckeler , both of which were important and influential publications for Catholic church music. Bohn was also an avid employee of other specialist journals, especially the monthly magazine for music history . He translated and edited theoretical writings such as the dodecachordon of the polymath Glarean .

He was a founding member and secretary of the Hermesdorff choral society, which he took over as chairman after the death of its founder in January 1885. In the decades-long "Trier Choral Controversy", which then revolved around the question of authentic Gregorian chant, which was also discussed internationally, Bohn, like Hermesdorff before him, took the view that the old Trier choral tradition that had been cultivated at Trier Cathedral until his death was only carried out systematically Variant, the so-called Trierian third, represents a modified original form of the medieval chorales. This version was given up in favor of an internal church unity by Hermesdorff's successor Philipp Jakob Lenz in favor of the very inadequate Editio Medicaea published by Franz Xaver Haberl in Regensburg in 1874 on the basis of a reform print from 1614, against which Hermesdorff had fought throughout his life, but which was supported by the Congregation for Rites of the Vatican was granted a 30-year printing privilege and recommended for use. When Pope Pius X. with his Motu proprio Tra le sollecitudini and the publication of the so-called Editio Vaticana by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes , who had critical criteria for sources comparable to those of Hermesdorff's Choral Association when the work was published , Bohn was also able to see a success of his music-historical work in it. The public confirmation of this came in 1907 with the award of the papal cross of honor Pro Ecclesia and Pontifice for the "excellent chorale scholar and steadfast champion of traditional melodies". In the international commission to the Editio Vaticana had prepared a German layman was represented: the from Trier-Kürenz originating Peter Wagner , also a close friend Peter Bohn and former favorite student Michael Hermes Dorffs, in the meantime, President of the International Society for Musicology as well as the director of Leo XIII. approved Gregorian Academy and appointed Professor of Musicology and Church Music at the University of Friborg .

Peter Bohn died in Trier in 1925. The Codex Bohn , an extremely valuable medieval chorale manuscript, which, together with the valuable codices of the cathedral treasury and the city library, formed the basis of extensive research by the Hermesdorff choral society and was discussed in detail in the handwritten supplements to its magazine Cäcilia for the members of the choral society he of the Trier City Library .

Fonts

• Glarean (Heinrich Loriti), dodecachordon (proof of the 12 keys), translated by Peter Bohn (= publication of older practical and theoretical musical works 16), Leipzig 1888
• Mary's Lament. Handbook. ad 15th century, in: Monthly Issues for Music History, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1877, p. 1
• Theophilus. Handbook. ad 15th century, in: monthly books for music history, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1877, p. 3
• Nicolaus Wollick from Serovilla, in: MONTHS FOR MUSIC HISTORY, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1877, p. 56
• Musica Beronensis seu Prologus in Tonarium, in: MONTHS FOR MUSIC HISTORY, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1877, p. 223
• Oddo's von Clugny Dialog, translated by Peter Bohn, in: MONTHS FOR MUSIC HISTORY, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1880, p. 23
• The liturgical recitative and its designation in the liturgical books of the Middle Ages, in: MONTHS FOR MUSIC HISTORY, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1887, p. 29 ff
• Philipp von Vitry, in: Monatshefte für Musikgeschichte, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1890, p. 141
• Some notes on music history from the former Electorate of Trier, in: MONTHS FOR MUSIC HISTORY, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1892, p. 35
• Raimondo Mei (Biographical), in: Monthly Issues for Music History, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1892, p. 163
• The plica in Gregorian chants in mensural chants, in: Monthly Issues for Music History, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1895, p. 47
• A song from Trier. 15.-16. Century, with sound movements, in: MONTHS FOR MUSIC HISTORY, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1897, p. 37
• Notker's Sequenzen, in: Monatshefte für Musikgeschichte, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1902, p. 17
• Reform-Choral by Pat. Molitor, advertisement, in: Monthly books for music history, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1902, p. 18
• The Gregorian Choral by A. Ursprunguch, in: monthly books for music history, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1902, advertisement 19
• The Gregorian Chant; Origin and development of musical notation. Lecture, in: Monthly Issues for Music History, Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1902, p. 71. 87
• Illumination of some passages from the brochure written by Cathedral Kapellmeister Ph. J. Lenz, entitled: Uniform liturgical singing of the diocese. A word on the Trier chorale book question. Self-published by the author, Trier 1889
• The Gregorius Messenger and the Trier Choral
• "Contributions to the music history of the Diocese of Trier 1870-1904"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register, Trier registry office, No. 489/1925