Theodor Wilhelm Werner

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Theodor Georg Wilhelm Werner , often Theodor W. Werner, (born June 8, 1874 in Hanover , † December 6, 1957 in Salzburg ) was a German musicologist, music critic and composer.

Life

Theodor Wilhelm Werner attended the Ratsgymnasium in Hanover and then studied German at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . From 1896 he was a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg . He switched to musicology, which he studied from 1901 to 1904 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin with A. Heinemann and G. Noren. In 1904/05 he studied singing with August Iffert and Heinrich Gudehus at the Dresden Conservatory and composition with Albert Fuchs and Felix Draeseke . From 1905 to 1911 he worked as a concert singer and composer in Dresden. From 1914 to 1916 he continued his studies in musicology in Berlin, with Johannes Wolf , and Munich , with Theodor Kroyer and Adolf Sandberger , and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . He then carried out archival and library tasks for the Commission for the Publication of Monuments to German Music and the Princely Institute for Musicological Research in Bückeburg . On October 21, 1920 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Hanover , where he became a private lecturer . Since January 1, 1921, he worked as a music critic for the Hannoversche Kurier . From 1924 to 1947 he held a lectureship in musicology at the Technical University of Hanover, where on June 20, 1927 he was appointed a non-official extraordinary professor . In 1930 he founded the Collegium Musicum at the Technical University of Hanover.

In particular, he researched the music history of Hanover and Lower Saxony as well as baroque opera.

After losing his house and library as a result of the air raids on Hanover in 1943 , he moved to Salzburg. There he worked at the Mozarteum and as a music critic for the Salzburger Nachrichten and the Democratic Volksblatt . In Salzburg he also gave the young Thomas Bernhard private lessons in musical aesthetics. He reports about him in his autobiographical text Der Keller. A withdrawal , he also served as a kind of model for the music critic Reger in his novel Old Masters . His grave is in the Petersfriedhof Salzburg .

Werner was married to the singer Marie Keldorfer (1879–1966) since 1911 .

Publications

  • The music manuscripts of the Kestner estate in the city archive of Hanover . In: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 1, 1918/19, pp. 441–466.
  • Adam Rener's Magnificat compositions . In: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 2, 1920, pp. 195–265 ( digitized version , dissertation).
  • Thomas Crappius. A contribution to the Hanoverian cantor history . In Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 5, 1923, pp. 223-256 ( digitized version ).
  • Music in France ( Jedermann Library, Music Department ). Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau 1927.
  • Capital Hanover. Three hundred years. From the court orchestra to the opera house orchestra. 1636-1936. Festschrift on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Hanover Orchestra . Hanover 1937.

literature

  • Erich Limmert : Theodor Wilhelm Werner † . In: Musica 12, 1958, p. 105.
  • Richard Schaal:  Werner, Theodor Georg Wilhelm. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 14 (Vollerthun - Zyganow). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1968, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 495-496.
  • Catalogus Professorum 1831–1981. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hannover 2 . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1981, ISBN 3-17-007321-4 , p. 339 (with picture)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 67/806.
  2. ^ Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 813.
  3. ↑ Thomas Bernhard: The cellar. A withdrawal. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1976, pp. 135-146.
  4. ↑ Martin Huber: "Fragments of possibility of memory" Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler to commemorate . In: Thomas Bernhard Yearbook 2007/2008, p. 20.
  5. ↑ grave .
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Theodor Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner, Theodor W .; Werner, Theodor Georg Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1957
Place of death Salzburg