Rudolf Steglich

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Rudolf Steglich (born February 18, 1886 in Rathsdamnitz , Stolp district ; † July 8, 1976 in Scheinfeld near Nuremberg ) was a German musicologist and university professor who researched primarily on Georg Friedrich Handel .

Career

Steglich came from the Prussian province of Pomerania . From 1900 to 1906 he received piano lessons from Liszt's student Bertrand Roth in Dresden . He then studied musicology with Adolf Sandberger at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and with Johannes Wolf at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1911 he was with Hugo Riemann at the University of Leipzig with the dissertation The Quaestiones in musica. A choral treatise from the Central Middle Ages and its presumed author Rudolf von St. Trond (1070-1138) as Dr. phil. PhD. In the First World War he served as a soldier.

From 1919 to 1929 he was music advisor at the Hannoversche Anzeiger and from 1925 music teacher at the Conservatory in Hanover .

After his habilitation in 1930 at the University of Erlangen on The Elementary Dynamics of Musical Rhythm, Steglich succeeded Gustav Becking as a private lecturer in musicology. He was also head of the musicology seminar. In 1934 he became an adjunct professor . At the same time, he was a lecturer at the Municipal Conservatory of Music and at the Nuremberg Business School from 1935 to 1944 . From 1936 to 1940 he edited the archive for music research . He was one of 26 musicologists who took part in the 1938 Reichsmusiktage in Düsseldorf, an event organized by Nazi propaganda . After 1945, Steglich taught in Erlangen until his retirement in 1956.

He researched the music of the 18th and early 19th centuries (Bach, Bach's sons, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann). In the 1920s he made a major contribution to the Handel renaissance. From 1928 to 1933 he was editor of the Handel yearbooks . In 1939 he published a monograph on the life and work of Handel. In 1955 he was a founding member (Vice President), later an honorary member of the Georg Friedrich Händel Society in Halle. From 1955 he was co-editor (with Max Schneider ) of the Halle Handel Edition . His contributions to rhythm theory and his reflections on musicology and music practice are also of further importance. Many of his articles appeared in the magazine for music (from 1922) and in Musica (from 1948).

Fonts (selection)

  • The quaestiones in musica (1911)
  • The elementary dynamics of musical rhythm (1931)
  • What do you know about Handel? (1931)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1935)
  • Mozart's grand piano sounds again (1937)
  • Georg Friedrich Handel (1939)
  • Robert Schumann's Scenes from Children (1949)
  • Paths to Bach (1949)
  • About the "Cantable Art" of Johann Sebastian Bach's Music (1957)
  • George Frideric Handel (1960)
  • Dance rhythms in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1962)

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SURNAME Steglich, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Rathsdamnitz , Stolp district
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1976
Place of death Scheinfeld near Nuremberg