Walter Salmen

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Walter Salmen (born September 20, 1926 in Paderborn ; † February 2, 2013 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German musicologist and university professor .

Act

Salmen taught from 1958 to 1992 as a professor of musicology at Saarland University in Saarbrücken and Kiel University . Afterwards he was full professor at the Musicological Institute of the University of Innsbruck for many years . He has also worked as a guest in Switzerland , Israel and the USA . After his retirement he lived in Kirchzarten near Freiburg im Breisgau and worked as an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg .

Salmen's first marriage was to the psychologist Margarete Salmen (born Marx, born September 7, 1918, † October 17, 1979), and his second marriage was to the flautist and musicologist Gabriele Busch-Salmen .

Publications (selection)

  • Johann Friedrich Reichardt : composer, writer, bandmaster and administrative officer of the Goethe era . Zurich and Freiburg 1963 (extended new edition Hildesheim 2002).
  • History of music in Westphalia up to 1800. Bärenreiter , Kassel 1963
  • History of music in Westphalia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1967
  • On the history of the bear drivers and the dancing bears. In: Gustaf Hilleström (Ed.): Studia instrumentorum musicae popularis III. (Musikhistoriska museets skrifter 5. Festschrift for Ernst Emsheimer .) Musikhistoriska museet, Stockholm 1974, pp. 203–205
  • Musical life in the 16th century . Leipzig 1976 ( music history in pictures ).
  • Dance in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries . Leipzig 1988, 1989.
  • The dance master. History and profiles of an occupation from the 14th to the 19th century. Georg Olms , Hildesheim 1997
  • Der Spielmann im Mittelalter Innsbrucker Contributions to Musicology 8, Innsbruck, 1960, extended new edition 1983
  • Playwives in the Middle Ages. Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2000
  • The Tonkünstler Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Goethe: "... from the musical side our friend, from the political side our adversary ...". An exhibition by the Goethe Museum Düsseldorf on the 250th birthday of Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814). Goethe Museum , Düsseldorf 2002.
  • "Now I pin been alde ...". Encounters and denials in the life of a musicologist. Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Salmen, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2013
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau