Walter Senn (musicologist)

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Walter Senn (born January 11, 1904 in Innsbruck ; † July 15, 1981 there ) was an Austrian musicologist .

Life

Walter Senn was the son of the composer and organist Karl Senn . He learned piano and music theory from Josef Pembaur the Elder and Emil Schennich as well as organ from his father at the school of the Innsbruck Musikverein . After graduating from high school, he studied musicology at the University of Vienna with Guido Adler and Robert Lach and received his doctorate in 1927 with the dissertation The main theme in Beethoven's sonata movements . At the same time he studied piano from 1922 to 1926 at the Vienna Music Academy with Friedrich Wührer and Karl Prohaska and music theory with Joseph Marx .

He was qualified to teach piano in 1930, singing in 1931 and organ in 1932. From 1928 to 1938 he taught at Innsbruck secondary schools and taught music theory and choral singing at the University of Innsbruck . He worked as an organist and choir conductor and also researched the music and theater history of Tyrol. During the Second World War , he conducted archive studies for the SS Ahnenerbe in South Tyrol . In 1947 he received his habilitation in Vienna with a thesis on Jakob Stainer . In 1950 he returned to Innsbruck and was initially a lecturer, and in 1961 an associate professor at the University of Innsbruck. From 1963 he was head of the music collection of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum and the Tyrolean folk song archive.

Walter Senn was scientifically active in a variety of ways. His main research interests included the Viennese Classic , in particular Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Tyrolean music history, violin playing and violin making. From 1963 he was a member of the Central Institute for Mozart Research and was involved in the New Mozart Edition . He has written numerous articles in magazines and anthologies and around 100 articles for the encyclopedia The music in the past and present .

Awards

Publications

  • From the cultural life of a small town in southern Germany: Music, school and theater in Hall in Tirol from the 15th to the 19th century. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1938.
  • Tyrolean instrumental music in the 18th century. Monuments of Music Art in Austria , No. 86, Vienna 1949.
  • Jakob Stainer, the violin maker at Absam. The life story according to documented sources. Schlern writings, no.87.Wagner, Innsbruck 1951.
  • Music and theater at the court of Innsbruck. History of the court orchestra from the 15th century to its dissolution in 1748. Österreichische Verlags-Anstalt, Innsbruck 1954.
  • as editor, with Joseph Heinz Eibl: Mozart's Bäsle letters. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1978.
  • with Karl Roy: Jakob Stainer: Life and Work of the Tyrolean Master 1617–1683. Textbook series Das Musikinstrument, Volume 44.Bochinsky, Frankfurt am Main 1986-

literature

annotation

  1. ↑ according to Strohal 1981; according to OeML on July 17th
personal data
SURNAME Senn, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1981
Place of death innsbruck