Vladimír Karbusický

Vladimír Karbusický (born April 9, 1925 in Velim ; † May 23, 2002 in Hamburg ) was a Czech musicologist .

Life

As a teenager, Karbusický was deported to Hamburg as a slave laborer in 1944–45 . After the war, he made up his Abitur and began to study mechanical engineering. However, he changed subjects and studied musicology, aesthetics and philosophy at Charles University in Prague from 1948-52 . He received his doctorate in 1953 with an investigation into the history of the workers' song . In 1964 he became a candidate for science with a thesis on the same subject . After the Prague Spring he had to give up his activity at the Academy of Sciences in Prague and emigrated in 1969. He received his habilitation in 1975 at the Pedagogical University of the Rhineland. He also taught in Wuppertal and Aachen. In 1976 he moved to Hamburg, where he held a chair for systematic musicology until 1990 .

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Karbusický published musicological, historical and philosophical writings. He was considered a structuralist . The text Beginnings of Historical Tradition in Bohemia was created between 1955 and 1966 and was first published in the Federal Republic in German translation. Due to the censorship it could only be published in Prague in 1995. The empirical sociology of music from 1975 and the systematic musicology from 1979 became recognized standard works in the respective disciplines.

Bibliography (selection)

• Beginnings of the historical tradition in Bohemia. A contribution to the comparative study of medieval singing peoples , Böhlau, Cologne, 1980, ISBN 3-412-06879-9
• Outline of the musical semantics , Darmstadt, 1986, ISBN 3-534-01785-4
• Cosmos-human-music. Structuralist anthropology of the musical , Hamburg, 1990
• The West is like German. Historical mission consciousness in the mirror of music , von Bockel, Hamburg, 1995, ISBN 3-928770-53-5

Web links

• Ivan Poledňák: Karbusický, Vladimír. In: Český hudební slovník osob a institucí (Czech musical dictionary of persons and institutions)