Robert Lach

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Robert Lach (born January 29, 1874 in Vienna , † September 11, 1958 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian musicologist, poet and composer.

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After dropping out of law school, Lach entered the Austrian civil service in 1894. He also studied composition from 1893 to 1899 at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna with Robert Fuchs , and from 1896 musicology with Richard Wallaschek , Heinrich Löwy-Rietsch , Max Dietz and Guido Adler . In 1902 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague.

From 1912 to 1920 he headed the music collection of the Vienna State Library and continued the printed catalog of music manuscripts of the Austrian State Library begun by Josip Mantuani .

After his habilitation in musicology at the University of Vienna in 1915, he became an associate there in 1920. In 1927, at the instigation of an openly anti-Semitic group around Heinrich von Srbik , Lach succeeded Guido Adler as a full professor of comparative musicology , although Adler had not included him in his casting proposal and Lach was not a music historian. He was also professor of music history at the State Academy for Music and Performing Arts from 1924 to 1945 .

In 1933 Lach became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 1.529.471) in the local group Pötzleinsdorf .

Lach is regarded as a leading representative of comparative musicology. He also published works on music history, music ethnology and psychology and emerged as a poet and composer of late romantic works.

In 1968 the Robert-Lach-Gasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after him.

anti-Semitism

According to Kurt Ehrenberg , who processed the autobiographical notes of his father-in-law Othenio Abel , Lach was a member of the "Bärenhöhle" , an anti-Semitic university clique.

In a letter from 1933 he writes: "Who would have dared hope three years ago that the power of Judaism would be broken so suddenly and quickly as it is now, thank God, at least in Germany ..."

In the same year: “I recently bought the 'Handbuch der Judenfrage' and was happy to find your contribution in it (...) By the way, I would like to take the liberty of drawing your attention to some Jews that you forgot in Vienna afterwards (...) : The director at the court opera, Dr. Lothar Wallerstein, then the Jewess Margarete Wallmann, who came to Vienna a few months ago and of course ended up at the Court Opera, as well as the Kapellmeister [Karl] Alwin, [Hugo] Reichenberger and [Josef] Krips, all of the worst kind of 'purely cultivated' Jews! In general, the opera is now totally Jewish under the famous regime of Clemens Krauss ; not an Aryan bandmaster or director! Krauss is a Jew servant of the worst kind through and through! Isn't he a Jew himself? … Arthur Haas …, one of the most disgusting and horrific Jews that one can imagine ”.

Lach also delayed the appointment of Egon Wellesz due to racist motives and rejected Paul Nettl as a reviewer because he was a " full Jew of the purest class".

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  • Studies on the history of the development of ornamental melopoeia , 1913.
  • Sebastian Sailer's "Creation" in music , 1916.
  • Preliminary report on the recording of the chants of Russian prisoners of war in August and September 1916 , 1917 on behalf of the Imperial Academy of Sciences .
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as theoretician . Holzhausen, Vienna 1918.
  • On the history of ballroom dancing in the 18th century , 1920.
  • On the history of musical guilds , 1923.
  • Comparative musicology, its methods and problems , 1924.
  • The music of the natural and oriental cultures. In: Guido Adler : Handbuch der Musikgeschichte. I – III, Frankfurt am Main 1924, 2nd edition Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1930; New prints Munich 1975 and 1981, Volume I, pp. 3–34.
  • The construction principle of repetition in music, language and literature , 1925.
  • Comparative art and musicology , 1925
  • The Bruckner files in the Vienna University Archives . E. Strache, Vienna a. a. 1926.
  • Songs of Russian Prisoners of War I-III , 1926–52.
  • History of the State Academy and University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , E. Strache, 1927.
  • The ethos in Schubert's music. Self-published, Vienna 1928.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Street names in Vienna since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 125ff, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  2. ^ Kurt Ehrenberg: Othenio Abel's life path, using autobiographical records. Kurt Ehrenberg, Vienna 1975, p. 85 f., Evaluated by Klaus Taschwer: Secret thing Bärenhöhle. How an anti-Semitic professor cartel from the University of Vienna expelled Jewish and left-wing researchers after 1918. In: Regina Fritz, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Jana Starek (Ed.): Alma mater antisemitica: Academic milieu, Jews and anti-Semitism at the universities of Europe between 1918 and 1939. Volume 3, new academic press, Vienna 2016, p. 221– 242, here p. 230 ( online ).
  3. ^ Online standard from July 23, 2012: Anti-Semitic addresses in Vienna

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SURNAME Laugh, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1958
Place of death Salzburg