Werner Felix

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Werner Felix (born July 30, 1927 in Weißenfels , † September 24, 1998 in Leipzig ) was a German music historian and Bach researcher. He was rector of the music academies in Weimar and Leipzig and president of the GDR Chopin Society .

Life

Werner Felix was born in 1927 as the son of a businessman in Weißenfels. He first learned the trade of a businessman himself . In 1950 he began studying music in schools at the State University of Music Weimar , which he completed in 1951 with the state examination .

In 1951/52 he was the main consultant in the State Secretariat for higher education and technical schools . From 1952 to 1954 he was director of the Erfurt Conservatory. From 1955 to 1966 he was the successor of Willi Niggeling , who "increasingly came into conflict with the cultural policy of the SED", rector of the music college in Weimar. In 1956 he was with the music educator Fritz Reuter at the pedagogical faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin with the dissertation Ernst Julius Hentschel (1804 to 1875), Life and Work. Its importance for music education in our German democratic school for Dr. paed. PhD. He then received a teaching position for music history in Weimar. 1959 was appointed professor . In 1960 he founded the annual “International Music Seminar for Composition and Interpretation” in Weimar. In 1965 he became a full professor for music history at the State University of Music - Mendelssohn Academy in Leipzig. In 1968 he was appointed artistic director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra by the Leipzig City Council (until 1971). From 1987 to 1990 he was rector and thus successor to Peter Herrmann at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music in Leipzig.

From 1962 to 1986 he was the founding president of the Chopin Society of the GDR and a corresponding member of the Chopin Society in Warsaw. Felix was a member of the Executive Council of the GDR Music Council and the Central Board of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR . From 1969 to 1990 he was a managing board member of the Neue Bachgesellschaft in Leipzig. In 1976 he became President of the Debussy Circle of the GDR. From 1979 to 1991 he acted as general director of the "National Research and Memorial Johann Sebastian Bach of the GDR". Thus he was also in charge of the incorporated Bach Archive in Leipzig . From 1978 to 1998 he was a member of the editorial board of the New Bach Edition . In 1985 he became a full member of the philological and historical class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.

Felix was a member of the SED and from 1958 to 1963 a member of the Erfurt District Assembly .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The music of the German classical period (= study material for organized self-study for cultural officials . H. 4). Seemann, Leipzig 1954.
  • Franz Liszt. A picture of life. With excerpts from the composer's writings and letters in the appendix (= Reclams Universal-Bibliothek . No. 8995/97). Reclam, Leipzig 1961 (2nd edition 1961).
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck (= Reclams Universal Library . Vol. 165). Reclam, Leipzig 1965.
  • Franz Liszt. [Biography] (= Reclam's Universal Library . Vol. 399). Reclam, Leipzig 1969 (2nd revised edition 1986; also published in Frankfurt am Main: Röderberg-Verlag 1986).
  • With Winfried Hoffmann, Armin Schneiderheinze (ed.): Report on the scientific conference on the III. [Third] International Bach Festival of the GDR. Leipzig, 18./19. September 1975 . Commissioned by the Johann Sebastian Bach Committee of the GDR, Deutscher Verlag für Musik VEB, Leipzig 1977.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach . Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1984 (2nd edition 1986 and 3rd edition 1989, ISBN 3-370-00165-9 ; published as a licensed edition in Wiesbaden: Breitkopf and Härtel 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0202-4 ).
  • Music history. A floor plan . Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1984/85, ISBN 3-370-00006-7 (2nd edition 1989/90).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfram Huschke : On the Liszt identity of the Musikhochschule in Weimar . In: Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 42 (2001) 1/2, pp. 197–212, here: p. 206.
  2. ↑ Andreas Herbst :  Niggeling, Willi . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  3. ↑ Rectors and Presidents of the University , hfm-weimar.de, accessed: March 19, 2020.
  4. ^ Heinz Wegener: Bibliography Fritz Reuter . In the S. (Red. Ed.): Commemorative publication Fritz Reuter (= scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Social and linguistic series 15 (1966) 3). P. I-VIII, here: P. VII.
  5. ↑ Historisches , chopingesellschaft.de, accessed: March 19, 2020.
  6. ^ Johann Sebastian Bach Institute Göttingen, Leipzig Bach Archive (ed.): The new Bach edition 1954–2007. A documentation. Presented at the end of Johann Sebastian Bach's new edition of all works . Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2007, p. 28.
  7. ↑ Art prizes awarded by the DDE . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 27, 1976, vol. 32, issue 126, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Felix, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1998
Place of death Leipzig