Tibor Kneif

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Tibor Kneif (2010)

Tiburtius "Tibor" Kneif (born October 9, 1932 in Bratislava , † July 26, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German-Hungarian lawyer and musicologist .

Life

Kneif, who received his doctorate at the Faculty of Law in Budapest after studying law in 1955, continued his studies at the Faculty of Law in Göttingen after his emigration to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1956, but from 1959 turned to the subjects of musicology, philosophy and Romance studies and received his doctorate again in 1963, this time with the musicological topic on the emergence of musical medieval studies with Heinrich Husmann . With a grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) he worked from 1965 to 1967 at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research with Theodor W. Adorno . In 1971 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin in musicology with Rudolf Stephan and was appointed professor here in 1973 (1997: University professor a. D.). In addition to his academic career, he was also active as a music critic, for example for the Göttinger Presse between 1959 and 1963 and for the Berliner Tagesspiegel from 1976 to 1984 .

Fonts

A comprehensive index of the writings of Tibor Kneif, compiled by Thomas Gerlich, can be found in the volume Semantic Islands - Musical Mainland. For Tibor Kneif on his 65th birthday , ed. by Hanns-Werner Heister , Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen , Arne Langer, Susanne Oschmann, from Bockel Verlag 1997.

Jurisprudence

  • Studies on the legal status of state-owned companies. Unpublished dissertation in Hungarian, Budapest 1955
  • The development of constitutional law in Hungary since 1945. In: Yearbook of public law. New episode 8, 1959

History, Sociology and Aesthetics of Music

  • The historical and social prerequisites of musical kitsch. In: German quarterly for literary studies and intellectual history. 37, 1963
  • The exploration of medieval music in the romantic era and its intellectual historical background. In: Acta Musicologica . 36, 1964
  • Ernst Bloch and musical expressionism. In: In honor of Ernst Bloch. Contributions to his work. ed. Siegfried Unseld , Frankfurt / M. 1965
  • Contemporary questions in the sociology of music. A research report. In: Acta Musicologica 38, 1966
  • The subject of music-sociological knowledge. In: Archives for Musicology . 23, 1966
  • The trivial consciousness in music. In: Studies on Trivial Music of the 19th Century. ed. Carl Dahlhaus , Regensburg 1967
  • On the interpretation of the Rhine daughters in Wagner's "Ring". In: Archives for Musicology 26, 1969
  • The idea of ​​the organic in Richard Wagner . In: Richard Wagner's drama as a musical work of art. ed. Carl Dahlhaus, Regensburg 1970
  • Ideas for a dualistic musical aesthetic. In: International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. 1, 1970
  • The idea of ​​nature in music history. In: Archives for Musicology. 28, 1971; also in: Language And Style. III 1970 (Southern Illinois University)
  • Musical aesthetics. In: Introduction to Systematic Musicology. ed. Carl Dahlhaus, Cologne 1971
  • Music sociology. ibid
  • Meaning, structure, counter-figure. On the theory of musical “opinion”. In: International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. 2, 1971
  • Music sociology. Cologne 1971, 2nd edition 1975; Italian as Sociologia della musica. Una introduction. Fiesole 1981
  • The stage works by Leoš Janáček . Vienna 1974
  • Types of correspondence in new music. In: About music and language. ed. Rudolf Stephan, Mainz 1974
  • Instructions for not understanding a sound object. In: Music and Understanding. Essays on semiotic theory, aesthetics and sociology of musical reception. Cologne 1974
  • Texts on the sociology of music. ed. Tibor Kneif. With a foreword by Carl Dahlhaus, Cologne 1975
  • Richard Wagner: The art and the revolution; Judaism in Music ; What is German? Edited and commented by Tibor Kneif, Munich 1975
  • Camille Durutte (1803-1881). A contribution to 19th century French music theory. In: Archives for Musicology. 32, 1975
  • Musical hermeneutics, musical semiotics. In: Contributions to musical hermeneutics. ed. Carl Dahlhaus, Regensburg 1975
  • La musica come “simbolo” e “immagine” della realtà sociale. In: La sociologia della musica. ed. Antonio Serravezza, Torino 1980
  • A plea for Brouček's acquittal. In: Leoš Janáček - conception and reception of his musical and dramatic work. ed. Walter Bernhart, Salzburg 1997
  • Requiem. In: Mass and Motet. ed. Laurenz Lütteken , Kassel 2002

Rock music and jazz

  • Rock music and subculture; Rock music and educational music; Aesthetic and non-aesthetic evaluation criteria of rock music. In: rock music. Aspects of history, aesthetics, production. ed. Wolfgang Sandner, Mainz 1977
  • Object lexicon rock music. Instruments, styles, techniques, industry and history. Reinbek 1978; Revised and expanded new edition 1980
  • That. Revised edition together with Bernward Halbscheffel 1992
  • Introduction to rock music. Drafts and documents for study and teaching. Wilhelmshaven 1979, 2nd edition 1981
  • Rock in the 70s. Jazz rock, hard rock, folk rock and new wave. ed. Tibor Kneif, Reinbek 1980
  • Rock music. A manual for critical understanding. Reinbek 1982
  • Exoticism in the musical underground. In: European music between nationalism and exoticism. Basel contributions to music history . 4, 1984

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tibor Kneif obituary , Der Tagesspiegel , August 21, 2016
  2. ^ Obituary by Tibor Kneif , Der Tagesspiegel , August 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Pinch, Tibor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinch, Tiburtius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German musicologist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2016
Place of death Berlin