Dahlhoff Collection

The Dahlhoff Collection is a comprehensive German dance collection from the 18th century that is in the possession of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage . It comprises around 800 melodies on around 1400 pages in ten volumes.

Emergence

Between 1767 and 1799 the Dahlhoff family collected various folk dances and cataloged them. The Dahlhoff family was a sexton family in the parish of Dinker , a parish in the Soester Börde ( Welver district ). The recorded dances come from a radius of around 500 km of this region. The collection went unnoticed for around 200 years until it was digitized in 2012 and published by the Berlin State Library. The Dahlhoff Collection contains traditional German folk dance music, which also documents the musical influence from other regions (e.g. “Bavarian”, “Polish Tantz”, “English Offeria”). The collection is not a musicological documentation, but a useful collection that documents lived folk music.

Dahlhoff family

The Dahlhoff family held the sexton and teacher post in Dinker (Welver district) for several generations . In addition, most of the Dahlhoffs were active as organists in the community:

• Goswin Dahlhoff (1670–1734), sexton and teacher in Dinkel
• Johann Heinrich Dahlhoff (1704–1764), son of Goswin Dahlhoff, sexton in Dinker
• Johann Diedrich Dahlhoff (1735–1804), son of Johann Heinrich Dahlhoff, sexton in Dinker, organist
• Wilhelm Dahlhoff (1781–1854), youngest son of Johann Diedrich Dahlhoff, sexton in Dinker, organist
• Friedrich Dahlhoff (1825–1885), youngest son of Wilhelm Dahlhoff, sexton in Dinker, organist and teacher

The dance collection was founded by Goswin Dahlhoff and largely continued by Johann Heinrich and Johann Diedrich Dahlhoff.

Processing and dissemination in the 21st century

Dahlhoff - the band at the Rudolstadt Festival 2019

Since their rediscovery, the dances in the Dahlhoff Collection have been played by German folk musicians in particular. The individual pieces in the Dahlhoff Collection are now being performed again and are spreading more and more through folk groups, but also through music schools that have included individual dances in their repertoire.

Web links

• Digitized Dahlhoff Collection of the Berlin State Library Prussian Cultural Heritage
• Transcriptions from the Dahlhoff Collection by Richmud Rollenbeck

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dance Music Archive: A Minuet - Five Sources - Seven Versions. November 12, 2016, accessed November 2, 2018 . 
2. ^ Hedo Holland: Dahlhoff Dances. In: Folk Magazin / wandervogel-ev.de. Retrieved November 2, 2018 . 
3. ^ Rheinischer Schulmann, 1889, Volume 7, Issue 7: "An old family of teachers". Retrieved November 2, 2018 . 
4. ^ Richmud Rollenbeck: Copy from Rheinischem Schulmann. Retrieved November 2, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Dance music archive : Menuett Laschene - Comparison of parallel sources. Retrieved November 2, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Michael Möllers: The Dahlhoffs - 250 years of dance music tradition. Retrieved November 2, 2018 . 
7. ^ Richmund Rollenbeck: In Dahlhoff's footsteps. In: Folkfreun.de. Retrieved November 2, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Dahlhoff - The band: Dahlhoff dances. Retrieved November 2, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Soester Anzeiger: Dahlhoff days honoring the work of the Dinkeran family of artists. August 30, 2016, accessed November 2, 2018 . 
10. ^ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung: First dance fun. September 4, 2016, accessed November 2, 2018 . 
11. ^ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung: International Folk Friends. August 9, 2018, accessed November 2, 2018 .