Desk and baton
Pult und Taktstock was an Austrian music magazine that became important for the development of new music , as it produced a number of source texts. It was published from 1924 to 1930 in seven volumes and 45 editions (54 or double issues) by the Vienna music publisher Universal Edition (UE) and was edited by Erwin Stein . From September 1930 the magazine was "united" with Musikblätter des Anbruch ( Anbruch ) without any further editorial comment and was thus effectively extinguished.
The subtitle was the professional magazine for conductors . It is probably the first trade journal to focus on performance practice - and not primarily practical-technical questions ('how do I strike the beat'), but above all aesthetic ones: what does the interpretation mean for the work, which is your frame? How does playing practice (or the development of instrument making) affect the work? Etc.
Due to the large number of contributions from actors of new music and modernity - z. B. in the constant column The composer on his work - an aesthetic picture of musical modernity crystallized out of concrete practice.
Focus
In terms of music history, the questions and contributions to the discussion became important :
- National differences in making music (1924, issue 1)
- On chamber music (1924, issue 8)
- The Mechanization of Music (1925, Issues 1-6)
- The visible conductor (1925, issue 1)
- Quality of a musical work of art, failure and value, the public's understanding of art (1925, issues 7 and 8)
- Wozzeck - Reviews of leading music writers in Germany (1926, issue 1)
- Metronomization (1926, issues 3/4 and 7/8)
- Arnold Schönberg and his orchestral works (1927, volume 3/4)
Important employees
In addition to a large number of individual contributions by famous conductors and practicing musicians, the main contributors were
- Music journalists:
- Composers
The publishing house, Universal Edition (UE), used the magazine extensively to advertise its own publishing house products.
