Siegfried Hermelink

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Siegfried Hermelink (born May 10, 1914 in Gniebel near Tübingen , Württemberg ; † August 9, 1975 in Frèconrupt , France ) was Professor of Musicology and University Music Director in Heidelberg .

Professional background

Siegfried Hermelink passed his school leaving examination in 1933 after years of high school in Stuttgart and Tübingen . He then attended the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, where he took the exam for academically trained organists and choir directors in 1936. After two years of military service, he studied musicology from 1938 to 1945, first in Tübingen and from 1940 in Heidelberg . From 1939 to 1942 he took part in the campaigns in France and Russia as a front soldier. In 1941 he passed the state examination for artistic teaching at secondary schools. In 1945 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Bach's piano preludes. As early as 1943 - entrusted with the administration of the assistant positions of the musicology seminar at the University of Heidelberg - he kept the lecture and seminar operations of the orphaned chair upright. In 1949, when the chair was filled with Thrasybulos Georgiades , he was appointed assistant with an official teaching position. With the choir and the Collegium Musicum of the University of Heidelberg, he has performed programs on the Süddeutscher Rundfunk since 1946, which were primarily related to his research work . From 1946 to 1951 Hermelink also worked as a teacher for organ playing and music history at the Evangelical Church Music Institute . In 1952 he succeeded Hermann Meinhard Poppen as university music director in Heidelberg.

Publications

  • Hermelink, Siegfried: A list of music from the Heidelberg court orchestra from 1544, in: Poensgen, Georg (ed.): Ottheinrich. Commemorative publication commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of his electoral period in the Palatinate (1556–1559), Heidelberg 1956, 247-260
  • Hermelink, Siegfried: On the history of the cadence in the 16th century. In: Report on the Seventh International Musicological Congress Cologne 1958, Bärenreiter, Kassel (1959)
  • Hermelink, Siegfried. 1960. Dispositiones Modorum (= Munich publications on music history 4). Tutzing.
  • Yearbook for Liturgy and Hymnology : Complete Directory Vol. 1–44 (1955–2005) with subject codes and key words
  • Hermelink, Siegfried 15.159 - 167 A Heidelberg chorale book from 1766 61 74 Pflaum
  • Hermelink, Siegfried, The rhythmic structure in Monteverdi's Ciaconna “Zefiro torna”, w: Congresso internazionale sul tema Claudio Monteverdi e il suo tempo, Verona: Stamperia Valdoneza, 1969, ss. 323-34.
  • Hermelink, Siegfried (editor): Orlando di Lasso: Complete Works - New Series
    • BA3403 New Series, Volume 3 Masses 1 - 9 1962
    • BA3404 New Series, Volume 4 Messen 10 - 17 1964
    • BA3405 New Series, Volume 5 Masses 18-23 1965
    • BA3406 New Series, Volume 6 Messen 24-29 1966
    • BA3407 New Series, Volume 7 Trade Fairs 30 - 35 1967
    • BA3408 New Series, Volume 8 Messen 36 - 41 1968
    • BA3409 New Series, Volume 9 Messen 42 - 48 1969
    • BA3410 New Series, Volume 10 Trade Fairs 49 - 55 1970
    • BA4191 New Series, Volume 11 Messen 56 - 63 1971
    • BA4192 New Series, Volume 12 Masses 64 - 70 1975
  • Hermelink, Siegrid: The Prelude in Bach's Piano Music 1977, ISBN 3-87537-152-6 , In: YEARBOOK OF THE STATE INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC RESEARCH OF PRUSSIAN CULTURAL POSSESSIONS, edited by Dagmar Droysen-Reber, 1983/84 by Dagmar Droysen-Reber and Günther Wagner, Since 1985/86 by Günther Wagner

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Article "Hermelink, Siegfried" in: Music in Past and Present, General Encyclopedia of Music ( MGG ), 1st edition, Vol. 06, p. 233 (print edition, Kassel 1949 - 1986 Bärenreiter-Verlag), p. 33750 ( Electronic edition, Berlin 2004, Directmedia GmbH)

literature

  • Article: "Siegfried Hermelink" in: The music in past and present, General Encyclopedia of Music ( MGG ), 1st edition, vol. 06, p. 233 (print edition, Kassel 1949–1986 Bärenreiter-Verlag), p. 33750 ( Electronic edition, Berlin 2004, Directmedia GmbH)

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personal data
SURNAME Hermelink, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Gniebel near Tübingen , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1975
Place of death Frèconrupt , France