Thrasybulus Georgiades

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Thrasybulos Georgios Georgiades ( Greek Θρασύβουλος Γεωργιάδης Thrasývoulos Georgiádis , born January 4, 1907 in Athens ; † March 15, 1977 in Munich ) was a Greek musicologist , pianist and civil engineer .

Life

Even before studying civil engineering at the Technical University in Athens, Georgiades devoted himself to piano studies at the Athens State Conservatory (1921–1926). After graduating in civil engineering , he studied musicology and composition with Carl Orff in Munich between 1930 and 1935 . In his interdisciplinary studies Georgiades was also influenced by the psychologist and musicologist Kurt Huber , the Byzantinist Franz Dölger and the archaeologist Ernst Buschor . On June 6, 1935 he received his doctorate with Rudolf von Ficker at the University of Munich with a thesis on the development of polyphony in the Middle Ages. In 1936 he married the harpsichordist Anna Barbara Speckner . In 1938 Georgiades became a professor of form at the state national conservatory "Odeon Athenon" in Athens, whose direction he took over in 1939. In 1947 he completed his habilitation with the "Comments on ancient quantity metrics" on the Greek rhythm and received a year later a call to the University of Heidelberg . In 1956 he was appointed to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and a year later a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Since 1951 he was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 1972 he retired and in 1974 was awarded the Pour le Mérite order.

Georgiades was a founding member of the Society for Bavarian Music History .

Scientific work

Georgiades is one of the most important musicologists and music theorists of the 20th century in Germany. In the 1930s Georgiades did research on Byzantine folk music and liturgical music. He later devoted himself to intensive research into musical aesthetics and rhythm , especially the rhythm-forming function of language. Georgiades was editor of the "Munich Publications on Music History" and the "Musical Edition in the Change of Historical Consciousness".

Georgiades' successor was his colleague Theodor Göllner .

Publications (selection)

  • English treble treatises from the first half of the 15th century: Studies on the development of polyphony in the Middle Ages . Musicology seminar at the University of Munich, Munich 1937.
  • The Greek rhythm: music, dance, verse and language . Schröder, Hamburg 1949 (originally habilitation thesis from the University of Munich as: Comments on ancient quantitative metrics , 1947).
  • Music and language: the way western music is represented in the setting of the mass. With numerous music examples. (= Understandable Science. Volume 50). Springer, Berlin / Göttingen 1954 (various new editions).
  • Music and Rhythm with the Greeks: On the Origin of Western Music. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1958 (various new editions).
  • Sacred and profane in music . Hueber. Munich 1960.
  • Music and writing . Oldenbourg, Munich 1962.
  • The musical theater . Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1965.
  • Small fonts . Schneider, Tutzing 1977.
  • Schubert: Music and Poetry . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1967 (various new editions).
  • Name and sound: time as logos . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985.

literature

  • Doris Dorner: Music as a representation event: a music-philosophical recourse to Thrasybulos Georgiades . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998.
  • Hans-Georg Gadamer : Thrasybulos Georgiades . In: Hans-Georg Gadamer: Hermeneutics in retrospect (= Collected Works. Vol. 10). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1995, pp. 423-426.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Thrasybulos Georgiades , members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  2. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Thrasybulos Georgiades. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed July 2, 2016 .
  3. ^ Society for Bavarian Music History eV In: miz.org , August 29, 2014. Accessed July 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Georgiades, Thrasybulus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Γεωργιάδης, Θρασύβουλος (Greek); Georgiades, Thrasybulos Georgios (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek musicologist , pianist and civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1977
Place of death Munich