Richard Wallaschek

Richard Wallaschek (born November 16, 1860 in Brno , Moravia , † April 24, 1917 in Vienna ) was an Austrian psychologist and musicologist who worked in the fields of comparative musicology and the origins of music .

Life

Wallaschek made contributions to music psychology . In his interdisciplinary research from 1890 to 1895 at the British Museum in London , he developed his theories about perception (which occurs via two types of mental representations - the sound and the music ) and production (based on the fact that music is an expression of emotion ) of music ; He based his work on the then current findings in neurology (especially William Richard Gowers and John Hughlings Jackson ). In 1907 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

His best-known work is Primitive music , first published in 1893 and reprinted at least five times until 2009 , which is considered to be the first comparative overall presentation of “tribal” or “primitive” music.

Works

Aesthetics of Tonkunst , Stuttgart 1886 ( digitized version )
Primitive Music: An Inquiry into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs, Instruments, Dances, and Pantomimes of Savage Races , London 1893 ( digitized
version
)
- German: Beginnings of Tonkunst. 1903 ( digitized version )

The kk Hofoperntheater , Vienna 1909 (= Die Theaters Wien , Volume 4) ( digitized version )

Web links

Gregor Kokorz: Wallaschek, Richard. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 ., As of September 18, 2018
Literature by and about Richard Wallaschek in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Literature by and about Richard Wallaschek in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

↑ Amy B. Graziano, Julene K. Johnson: Richard Wallaschek's contributions to the psychology of music. ( Memento from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: SD Lipscomb, R. Ashley, R. O Gjerdingen, P. Webster (Eds.): Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition. Evanston, IL, 2004, pp. 18-20.
^ Bruno Nettl : The Study of Ethnomusicology. Twenty-nine issues and concepts. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago 1983, ISBN 0-252-01039-6 , p. 54.

personal data
SURNAME	Wallaschek, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian psychologist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 16, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brno
DATE OF DEATH	April 24, 1917
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Amy B. Graziano, Julene K. Johnson: Richard Wallaschek's contributions to the psychology of music. ( Memento from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: SD Lipscomb, R. Ashley, R. O Gjerdingen, P. Webster (Eds.): Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition. Evanston, IL, 2004, pp. 18-20.

[2] Bruno Nettl : The Study of Ethnomusicology. Twenty-nine issues and concepts. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago 1983, ISBN 0-252-01039-6 , p. 54.