Rudolf Gerber (musicologist)

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Rudolf Gerber (born April 15, 1899 in Flehingen , † May 6, 1957 in Göttingen ) was a German musicologist . He was professor and director of the musicological seminar at the University of Giessen and from 1943 full professor of musicology at the University of Göttingen .

Life

Gerber, son of tax secretary Michael Gerber and his wife Friederike, b. Streib, received violin lessons from 1910 to 1917 at the Munz Conservatory during his school days in Karlsruhe . From 1918 to 1922 he studied musicology in Halle and at the University of Leipzig with Hermann Abert , art history with Wilhelm Waetzold and Wilhelm Pinder, and philosophy with Johannes Volkelt , F. Krüger and Driesch. 1922 Gerber was with a dissertation on The aria in the opera YES hatred for Dr. phil. PhD . He then worked as an assistant at the University of Berlin's Music History Department until 1928 .

After completing his habilitation at the University of Giessen in 1928 , he became an adjunct professor there in 1932. From 1933 to 1935 he taught at the University of Frankfurt , and since 1938 as a lecturer in church music at the local music college. From 1937 to 1943 he was a regular associate professor for musicology at the University of Giessen . In 1952 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Gerber, who had already appeared in the Zeitschrift für Musik in 1935 with an article on the tasks of musicology in the Third Reich during the National Socialist era , was admitted to the NSDAP retrospectively to May 1, 1937 upon application of October 17, 1937 and received the Membership number 5,863,193.

On May 26, 1938, at the musicological conference during the Reichsmusiktage , he gave a lecture on ethnicity and race in the personality and art of Johannes Brahms . In 1939/40 an anti-Semitic contribution by Gerber appeared in the journal for German Geisteswissenschaft under the title Die Musik der Ostmark , in which he a. a. claimed:

“At the end of the last century, another generation got hold of the reins whose spokesmen were no longer people from the Ostmark, but international Judaism , whose first main representative, the Czech ghetto Jew Gustav Mahler , ushered in an era of external and internal disintegration . "

Gerber worked closely with Herbert Gerigk , who was able to win him over for a music lexicon as part of the planned high school of the NSDAP . Gerber wrote in his confirmation of March 3, 1940 that he could take over the entire Protestant church music from Luther to Bach , as well as the Italian opera of the 18th century, the music of the 15th century and perhaps also the polyphonic music of the Middle Ages.

As part of his work at the main office music of the Führer’s representative for the supervision of the entire intellectual and ideological training and education of the NSDAP ( Rosenberg’s office ), which was headed by Herbert Gerigk, he worked for Rosenberg’s magazine Musik im Kriege . In 1942, Gerber stayed in Paris from the end of October to the beginning of November as an employee of the ERR “on behalf of the High School” of the NSDAP in order to collect material for an extensive study of the influence of German musicians on French music culture.

In his self-portrayal in MGG Volume 4 in 1955, he kept silent about his activities for the NSDAP and only emphasized that he had been a member of the Academy of Non-Profit Sciences in Erfurt since 1938 and of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen since 1952 .

Works

  • JA Hasse's opera type and its textual basis , Leipzig 1925
  • The Passion Recitative by Heinrich Schütz and its stylistic basics , Gütersloh 1929
  • Johannes Brahms , Potsdam 1938
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck , Potsdam 1941, 2nd, expanded edition 1950
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck . Academic Publishing Company Athenaion, Munich, 1950
  • Bach's Brandenburg Concerts: An introduction to their formal and spiritual nature . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel, Basel, 1951
  • On the history of the polyphonic hymn: Collected essays . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel, Basel, Paris, London, New York, 1965

literature

  • Thomas Phleps: A quiet, dogged and tenacious struggle for continuity - musicology in Nazi Germany and coping with past politics. In: Isolde v. Foerster et al. (Ed.), Music Research - National Socialism - Faschismus , Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488. online Uni Giessen
  • Göttingen scholars , vol. 1, p. 560
  • Imogen Fellinger:  Gerber, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , pp. 255 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Rudolf Gerber and Ludwig Finscher: Gerber, Rudolf. In: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart , Volume 4, Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1955, pp. 1782–1783, CD-Rom edition pp. 27036–27040.
  • Ludwig Finscher: Gerber, Rudolf. In: The music in past and present , 2nd edition, Part 7, Kassel and Stuttgart 2002, Sp. 763–765.
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 178.
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 1972–1974.
  • Joseph Wulf : Music in the Third Reich - A Documentation , Reprint Ullstein Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-548-33032-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imogen Fellinger:  Gerber, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , pp. 255 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Obituary by Anna Amalie Abert, 1957
  3. ↑ a b c Rudolf Gerber and Ludwig Finscher, in: MGG 4 1955, p. 1782
  4. ↑ a b c d Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians , p. 1973
  5. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 91.
  6. ^ Joseph Wulf: Music in the Third Reich , 1983, pp. 177-178.
  7. ^ Quotation from Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians , p. 1973
  8. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians , pp. 1973–1974 with reference to the source BA NS 15/25
  9. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 178.
  10. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians , p. 178 with reference to a letter from Gerigk from December 16, 1942, source: BA NS 15/25.
  11. ↑ Details of the works up to 1945 according to MGG Volume 4, p. 1782, CD-Rom edition, pp. 27.036–27.037
personal data
SURNAME Gerber, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Supplication
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1957
Place of death Goettingen