Reinhold Hammerstein

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Reinhold Hammerstein (born April 9, 1915 in Lämmerspiel , Hesse ; † April 22, 2010 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German musicologist .

Life

Reinhold Hammerstein, son of Rector August Hammerstein and Friederike née Pauly, devoted himself to studying musicology, history and German at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich after graduating from high school . There he obtained the academic degree of Dr. phil. In addition, he completed training in piano and singing.

During the Second World War he served as a soldier in Russia, but was discharged from military service as terminally ill because of a severe dysentery. He experienced the end of the war in Tengen on Lake Constance in 1944/45 . In 1946 he was appointed lecturer in music history at the Freiburg University of Music , a position he held until 1958. In 1954 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in musicology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, where in 1962 he was appointed as an adjunct professor . In addition, between 1955 and 1956 he was a visiting professor at the University of Basel . In 1963 Reinhold Hammerstein accepted a full professorship for musicology at Heidelberg University , which he held until his retirement in 1980.

Hammerstein, who expanded the field of musicology to include iconography , married Dr. Irmgard née Hueck, with whom he had three children. He died in 2010, at the age of 95, in Freiburg im Breisgau. One of his brothers is the historian Notker Hammerstein .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notker Hammerstein, From the Friends of the "White Rose". Otmar Hammerstein - a biographical exploration, p. 120.
  2. ↑ Notker Hammerstein, From the Friends of the "White Rose". Otmar Hammerstein - a biographical exploration, p. 120f.

literature

Fonts (selection)

  • Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart , a Swabian-Alemannic poet-musician of the Goethe era, dissertation 1943
  • The Music of Angels: Investigations into the perception of music in the Middle Ages, habilitation thesis , Francke, Bern, Munich, 1962
  • The music in Dante's Divina Commedia, In: Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch 41/42, 1964
  • Dance and Music of Death. The medieval dances of death and their afterlife. Francke, Bern 1980, ISBN 3-7720-1460-7 .
  • Power and sound: resounding automatons as reality and fiction in the ancient and medieval world, Francke, Bern, 1986
  • Of broken strings and singing cicadas: Studies on the emblematic of music, Francke, Tübingen, Basel, 1994
  • The voice from the other world: on the representation of the numinous in opera from Monteverdi to Mozart , Schneider, Tutzing, 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Hammerstein, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Lammerspiel , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2010
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau