Rolf Dammann (musicologist)

Rolf Dammann (born May 6, 1929 in Celle ; † September 18, 2012 in Oberrotweil near Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a musicologist at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau.

Life

Immediately after graduating from high school in 1948, Rolf Dammann came to Freiburg, where he studied with Heinrich Zenck and Willibald Gurlitt , who opened the way for him to the music of the Renaissance , an area of music history that had hardly been discovered at the time . After a semester he went to Kiel to deepen his studies with Friedrich Blume . In 1952 he returned to Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in the same year with a thesis on the Renaissance composer Jean Mouton .

Immediately after completing his doctorate, he took up teaching activities at the Freiburg University of Music and the University of Heidelberg and completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 1958 with a thesis that was to become his most successful book: The Concept of Music in the German Baroque . A third edition of this work was published in 1995, and it had a far-reaching effect in the early days of musical performance practice.

In 1966 he was appointed associate professor in Freiburg and finally professor in 1979 . He worked here for almost 30 years until his retirement in 1995. An essay on Guillaume Dufay's Domweih motette from 1436, which first appeared in an anthology on the architecture of the cathedral in 1964 and was taken up again in 1983 in a completely different context, became the starting point for one Long-term discussion about the possibilities of analytically linking the different artistic areas of architecture and music. In 2005 he published an addendum to Manetti , in which he was able to consolidate the results presented almost 40 years earlier in the light of more recent research.

With his other writings on the music of the Renaissance , Bach's Goldberg Variations and the Viennese Classic, he intertwined the musical work closely with the history of culture and ideas of his respective time. His writings include an analysis of the register aria of Leporello from Mozart's Don Giovanni .

Publications

• Studies on the motets by Jean Mouton. (Ms. Diss. Freiburg, 1952)
• Late forms of the isorhythmic motet in the 16th century. In: AfMw 10 (1953), pp. 16-40.
• On the music theory of Andreas Werckmeister. In: AfMw 11 (1954), pp. 206-237.
• The structure of the concept of music in the German baroque. (Habilitation thesis, U. of Freiburg, 1958; Cologne, 1967, 3/1995 as The Concept of Music in the German Baroque. )
• History of the definition of motet. In: AMw, xvi (1959), pp. 337-377.
• Dufay's Florentine Domweih motet (1436). In: W. Braunfels: The Florence Cathedral. Olten 1964; rev. in choral music and analysis. Edited by Heinrich Poos . Mainz 1983, pp. 43-66.
• The Musica mathematica by Bartolus. In: AfMw 26 (1969), 140-162.
• The music in the triumphal procession of Emperor Maximilian I. In: AfMw 31 (1974), 245–289.
• The register aria in Mozart's Don Giovanni. In: AfMw 33 (1976), 278-308; 1977, 34: 56-78
• Bach's Capriccio in B flat major: Imitation around 1700. In: Analyzes: Contributions to a problem history of composing: Festschrift for Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht . Edited by Werner Breig , Reinhold Brinkmann , Elmar Budde . Wiesbaden 1984, pp. 158-179.
• Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Goldberg Variations'. Mainz 1986.
• Addendum to Manetti. In: AfMw 59 (2005), pp. 310-318.

Honor (commemorative publication with list of publications)

• Musical world theater: Festschrift for Rolf Dammann on his 65th birthday. Eds. Susanne Schaal-Gotthardt, Thomas Seedorf , Gerhard Splitt. Laaber 1995.