Immortal music
Immortal music. The life and work of great musicians is a musical book series from the time of National Socialism , which was edited by Herbert Gerigk (1905-1996) from Berlin , head of the main music department in the Rosenberg office , with the collaboration of numerous music scholars and which has been published by Akademische Verlag since 1936 Publishing company Athenaion in Potsdam appeared, with the participation of Paul Egert, Hans Engel , KG Fellerer , Julius Friedrich, Hermann Killer, Werner Korte , Helmuth Osthoff , Erich Schenk , Hermann Sirp, Joseph Müller-Blattau and others. Each volume has about 130 pages and is provided with many music examples and illustrations. The volumes are based on the presentation of the publisher's prospectus on the "latest research results" and describe "personality and work, time and environment of the music theories of the nations and their relationships to our time". However, the series is aimed at a wide audience including music lovers and listeners of good music. The early volumes were those by Hans Engel on Franz Liszt and by Paul Egert on Friedrich Chopin (both 1936), the last by Karl Gustav Fellerer on Edvard Grieg in 1942.
The collection of immortal music, together with the classics of music in its writings and letters, is one of the series of publications systematically continued by the main department of music. The main goal of the publisher Gerigk was the attempt to convey the life and work of important musicians under the aspect of the National Socialist worldview for the first time . In view of several superficial imitations , the uninterrupted continuation of both series seems necessary.
The editor Herbert Gerigk thanked the Austrian music historian Erich Schenk (1902–1974), who had taken on the “musicological tasks of Aryanization” in German Austria, for his collaboration on his Lexicon of Jews in Music with the words: “An exact A review of the Viennese doctoral candidates [sic!] Would probably bring some fat Jews to light. "
Volumes
- Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck . Gerber, Rudolf. 1941
- Robert Schumann . Korte, Werner. 1937
- Albert Lortzing . Killer, Hermann. 1938
- Friedrich Chopin . Egert, Paul. 1936
- Franz Liszt . Engel, Hans. 1936
- Johann Strauss . Schenk, Erich. 1940
- Peter Tchaikovsky . Gilse van der Pals, Nikolai van. 1940
- Antonín Dvořák . Sirp, Herman. 1939
- Edvard Grieg . Fellerer, Karl Gustav. 1942
- Johannes Brahms . Gerber, Rudolf. 1938
- Hugo Wolf . Litterscheid, Richard. 1939
- Hans Pfitzner . Müller-Blattau, Joseph. 1940
- Giacomo Puccini . Fellerer, Karl Gustav. 1937
Further volumes on Gioacchino Rossini (Herbert Gerigk) and Georges Bizet are listed on the order form in the publisher's brochure .
See also
References and footnotes
- ↑ "Publ. in the order d. Hohen Schule "(specimen copy DNB 580382397 at the German National Library .)
- ^ Rainer Sieb: Access to the music. To set up organizational structures for music work in the divisions of the party. Dissertation Osnabrück 2007, p. 81 ( digitized version) (according to BArch, NS 15/189, p. 3. [= Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde , NS 15 (The leader's agent for the supervision of the entire intellectual and ideological training and education of the NSDAP - "Office Rosenberg")])
- ↑ Gerhard Scheit: The most German of the sciences: About the special commands of German musicology . ( MS Word ; 30 kB) In: Konkret 8/2001 (accessed on December 3, 2018)