Robert Munster

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Robert Münster (born March 3, 1928 in Düren ; † March 27, 2021 ) was a German musicologist whose main research interests were Mozart , Brahms , Bavarian music history and music in Bavarian monasteries.

Life

After the early death of her father, a general practitioner, the mother moved from Düren to Munich in 1932 . After finishing school, Münster studied musicology at the University of Munich from 1949 to 1956 . His professors included Rudolf von Ficker and Georg Reichert. In 1956 Münster received his doctorate with a thesis on Karl Joseph Toeschi's symphonies. From 1957 to 1959, Münster was the scientific assistant to the editor of the New Mozart Edition , Ernst Fritz Schmid . In 1961 he passed the state examination for the higher library service, in 1969 he became director of the music collection of the Bavarian State LibraryMunich, a position he held until 1991. At the State Library he designed numerous exhibitions, each with catalogs, including Carl Orff in 1970 . Das Bühnenwerk , 1979 Das Orff-Schulwerk (both in close collaboration with Carl Orff), 1981 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Idomeneo 1781–1981 , 1985 Folk Music in Bavaria , 1987 Art Nouveau Music ? Munich music life 1890–1914 .

Münster wrote, among other things. numerous writings on the music history of Bavaria, the processing of which was very important to him. Furthermore, since 1959 he has been researching old music together with Alois Kirchberger in Bavarian monasteries and churches. The often astonishing finds have been cataloged in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek since 1964 with funding from the German Research Foundation and, together with holdings from aristocratic music collections, published in the catalogs of Bayerischer Musiksammlungen (Munich: Henle) published by the General Directorate . A selection has appeared since 1967 in the records - later CD series - Musica Bavarica, published by Kirchberger and Münster . At first it was mainly monastic vocal and instrumental music. Secular music followed later. B. by court composers of the Blue Elector Max Emanuel , the Elector Max III. Joseph and the Bavarian kings Max I, Ludwig I and Ludwig II.

Sensational finds were the previously unknown symphony KV 19a and the second version of the Latin motet Exsultate, jubilate KV 165 / 158a by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . In 1987 Musica Bavaric a was awarded the Bavarian State Foundation Prize, and it celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2017.

Münster was an associate member of the Bavarian Benedictine Academy and the Academy of the Augustinian Canons of Windesheim .

honors and awards

Works (selection)

  • Johannes Brahms: Contributions to his biography. Edited by Thomas Hauschka. Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3990128794 .
  • King Ludwig II and music . Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1986, ISBN 978-3475522932 .
  • “I'm very popular here.” Mozart and Electoral Bavaria . A selection of essays. For the 65th birthday of the author, ed. from a group of colleagues. Schneider, Tutzing 1993, ISBN 3-7952-0759-2 (with a list of publications up to 1992).
  • “I would certainly do Munich an honor.” Mozart and the electoral court in Munich . Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 2002, ISBN 978-3874374644 (with an introduction by Heinz Friedrich ).
  • Prehistory and results of the DFG-funded music manuscript cataloging in Bavaria. The projects supervised from Munich with contributions from RISM . In: Klaus Walter Littger: Developments and stocks. Bavarian Libraries in Transition to the 21st Century. Hermann Holzbauer on his 65th birthday . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 181-193.
  • Otto Carl Erdmann von Kospoth: From Berlin via Munich to Venice. Diary of a musical journey from Berlin via Dresden, Bayreuth and Nuremberg to Augsburg, Munich, Innsbruck and Venice . April to December 1783. Edited by Carl-Christian von Kospoth. Introduced and commented by Robert Münster. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 2006, ISBN 978-3-87437-488-0 .
  • Kultur & Bildungszentrum Kloster Seeon (Ed.), Robert Münster (Red.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Benedictine monastery Seeon . Catalog for the exhibition: "My Hanserl, Liebs Hanserl". Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Seeon Benedictine monastery . Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 2006, ISBN 978-3874375269 .
  • Duke Clemens Franz von Paula von Bayern (1722–1770) and his Munich court music . Schneider, Tutzing 2008, ISBN 978-3-7952-1264-3 .
  • The Munich court music until 1800, in: Silke Leopold, Bärbel Pelker (ed.): South German court orchestras in the 18th century. An inventory. (= Writings on the Southwest German Court Music . Volume 1) Heidelberg University Publishing, Heidelberg 2018, pp. 367–408, ISBN 978-3-946054-78-8 ( pdf ).
  • Johannes Brahms in correspondence with Ernst Frank (= Johannes Brahms Correspondence . Volume 19). Schneider, Tutzing 1995.
  • Johannes Brahms and the musical Munich. (I) Offside, who is it? (II) Enthroned at last . In: Our Bavaria. Local supplement of the Bayerische Staatszeitung 32 (194506483), pp. 33–35 and 45–47. Reprinted in: Brahms Studies . Vol. 8, 1987, pp. 51-76.
  • Brahms and Paul Heyse. An artist friendship . In: Andreas Kraus: Land and Empire, Tribe and Nation. Problems and Perspectives in Bavarian History. Festival ceremony for Max Spindler on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Part 3: From March to the present . Beck, Munich 1984, pp. 339-357.
  • Heinrich von Sahr. Traces of a musical life from the Brahms circle . In: Music in Bavaria . No. 40, 1990, pp. 19-34.
  • “You may be interested in the futurists”. The late romantic composer Wilhelm Maria Puchtler in the judgment of Liszt and Brahms . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung 27./28.4.1991.
  • Wilhelm Maria Puchtler. A composer from Lower Franconia caught between Liszt and Brahms . In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst . 66 = 137 (2014), pp. 61–87.
  • Brahms and Joachim in Berlin. A newly discovered original drawing from 1892 . In: Wolfgang Gratzer, Andrea Lindmayr (Ed.): De editione musices. Festschrift Gerhard Croll on the occasion of his 65th birthday . Laaber 1992, pp. 411-420.
  • Memory of Adolf Thürlings and a Brahms episode in 1886 . In: Music in Bavaria . No. 48, 1994, pp. 105-111.
  • A letter from Karl Stieler to Johannes Brahms . In: Bernd Edelmann, Manfred Hermann Schmid (Hrsg.): Old in the new. Festschrift for Theodor Göllner's 65th birthday . Schneider, Tutzing 1995, pp. 315-319.
  • A Brahms memory by Adolf Sandberger . In: Klaus Hortschansky (Ed.): Traditions - New approaches. For Anna Amalie Abert (1909–1996) . Schneider, Tutzing 1997, pp. 411-417.
  • The Düsseldorf Concerts in 1884 with Johannes Brahms. Based on press reports and memoirs by Wilhelm Maase with comments on Robert Schumann and Giuseppe Verdi . In: Joachim Brügge (Ed.): Music history as a history of understanding. Festschrift for Gernot Gruber on his 65th birthday . Schneider, Tutzing 2004, pp. 699-711.
  • Bernhard and Luise Scholz in correspondence with Max Kalbeck and Johannes Brahms (also a contribution to the music in Breslau 1871–1883) . In: Musik in Bayern Vol. 82, 2017, pp. 185–258.
  • Johannes Brahms in the mirror of his contemporaries . Unprinted.
  • Johannes Brahms and the musical and cultural Munich . New version, unprinted.

literature

  • Wolfi Scheck, Ernst Schusser (ed.): Robert Münster on his 60th birthday: a selection of collected results and works (= personalities of folk music; 2). District of Upper Bavaria, Munich, 1988, DNB 945155913 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Munster. In: volksmusik-archiv.de. Retrieved on July 17, 2013 (German).
  2. ↑ Obituary notice. In: sueddeutsche.de. March 30, 2021, accessed March 30, 2021 .
  3. ↑ AAS 91 (1999), n.5, p. 482
  4. ↑ Honorary degrees: honorary doctorates. In: musikhochschule-muenchen.de. Retrieved March 30, 2021 .
  5. ^ Robert Münster - for his 60th birthday: A selection of collected results and works, compiled by Wolfi Scheck and Ernst Schusser. In: volksmusik-archiv.de. Retrieved March 30, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Munster, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2021