Walther Siegmund-Schultze

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Walther Siegmund-Schultze (born July 6, 1916 in Schweinitz (Elster) ; † March 6, 1993 in Halle / Saale ) was a German musicologist and Handel researcher.

Life

The son of the lawyer and mayor of Schweinitz, Hans Siegmund-Schultze , and his wife, the teacher Ida geb. Böhme, attended the Staatliche Domgymnasium in Magdeburg from 1925 to 1928 and then the Johanneum in Liegnitz , where he passed the Abitur in 1935 . He was then called in to the Reich Labor Service . From 1935 to 1939 he studied musicology, German and ancient languages ​​at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau , where at the end of 1939 he passed the state examination in German, Latin, Greek and music. In July 1940 he was admitted to the Philosophical Faculty with a dissertation on Mozart's vocal and instrumental music in their motivic-thematic relationships with Dr. phil. PhD. The reviewers for the work were Franz Arnold Schmitz and Fritz Feldmann .

Siegmund-Schultze joined the SA on April 10, 1934 as a Rottenführer . In 1935 he became a member of the NSD student union in Breslau and from May 1, 1937 a member of the NSDAP . From September 1940 until the end of the war he served as a non-commissioned officer in a intelligence department of the infantry of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front; he was wounded three times. From May 1945 to February 1946 he was a British prisoner of war in the Itzehoe military hospital .

After his release into the Soviet occupation zone , Siegmund-Schultze was a teacher and educator at the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) in 1946/47 . In 1947 he passed the second teacher examination. In 1947/48 he was a teacher at the Adolf-von-Harnack-Oberschule Merseburg until, at the end of 1948, he became a senior consultant and deputy department head of universities at the Ministry of Culture and Education of the State of Saxony-Anhalt and the Council of the Halle District . In 1951 he qualified as a professor at the Philosophical Faculty in Halle with Max Schneider's essay, Investigations on the Brahms Style and Brahms Image . From 1951 he was music advisor for the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the Halle district.

He also accepted teaching assignments at the Musikhochschule and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . In 1951/53 he was given a lectureship in musicology. In 1954 he became professor with a full teaching assignment for musicology and in 1956 with a chair. His main research interests were music history and aesthetics as well as opera ; He dealt intensively with the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Verdi, Mozart and Handel; he also promoted Telemann research in the GDR. In Halle he took over the directorship of the institutes for musicology and music education. From 1959 to 1965 he was dean of the philosophy faculty. From 1965 to 1970 he was acting head of the institute for musicology as well as head of the musicology department and the historical-systematic department at the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig . In 1969/70 he was a member of the section council and the musicology department and head of the music education / German teaching collective in the cultural studies and German studies section of the Karl Marx University. In 1981 he retired .

From 1946 to 1990 he was a member of the Kulturbund der DDR and the Halle / Saale district council. In 1948 he joined the SED . In 1952 he was a co-founder of the Association of German Composers and Musicologists , from 1955 to 1989 first chairman of the Halle / Magdeburg district association and member of the presidium and from 1968 vice-president. From 1954 to 1981 he was a member of the Halle District Assembly for the parliamentary group of the Kulturbund . In 1958 he became a member of the Peace Council of the GDR and in 1960 in the Association of German Journalists and a member of the editorial board of the journal Art and Literature .

Grave of Walther Siegmund-Schultze and his wife Dorothea, Gertraudenfriedhof Halle (Saale)

Walther Siegmund-Schultze was buried in the Gertraudenfriedhof in Halle. His estate (not yet cataloged) is in the library of the Handel House Foundation .

Handel research

From 1952 he took part in the Handel Festival . In 1955 he was one of the co-founders of the international Georg Friedrich Handel Society . From 1955 to 1988 he was Scientific Secretary and from 1988 to 1991 President of the Handel Society. From 1957 to 1993 he was editor-in-chief (from 1991 with Bernd Baselt ) of the Halle Handel edition . He was also the editor of the Handel yearbook .

Awards

Works

In addition to numerous essays, texts for record bags, work analyzes, design of programs for radio and television, reviews, opera and concert reviews, Walther Siegmund-Schultze has written the following books:

  • The Music of Bach (1953)
  • Georg Friedrich Handel. Life and Work (1954)
  • Mozart's melody and style (1958)
  • George Frideric Handel (1959)
  • On the concept of folklore in art (1960)
  • On some questions of musical aesthetics (1962)
  • Johannes Brahms (1966)
  • Ludwig von Beethoven. A monograph (1975)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1976)
  • George Frideric Handel (1980)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann (1980)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A little biography (1991)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Ideal - Idol - Idea (1994)

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner: Siegmund-Schultze, Walther . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (eds.): Biographical manual of the SBZ / GDR 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 862.
  • Sigrid Hansen: Siegmund-Schultze, Walther. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 ( article online ).
  • Klaus-Peter Koch (translation by Angela Baier): Siegmund-Schultze, Walther . In: Annette Landgraf, David Vickers (Eds.): The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-1-107-66640-5 , p. 588.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Olaf Kappelt: Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR. Berlin historica, 2009, pp. 523-524, ISBN 978-3-939-92912-3 .
  2. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 314.
  3. ↑ Archives , haendelhaus.de, accessed on May 20, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Siegmund-Schultze, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siegmund-Schultze, Walter; Schultze, Walther Siegmund; Siegmundt-Schultze, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and Handel researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinitz (Elster)
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1993
Place of death Halle / Saale