Werner Wolffheim

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Werner Joachim Wolffheim (born August 1, 1877 in Berlin ; † October 26, 1930 there ) was a German musicologist and collector who made a particular contribution to Bach research.

Life

After attending the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Berlin, he studied law in Munich and Berlin from 1895 to 1898 , as well as musicology with Adolf Sandberger and Oskar Fleischer . From 1899 he worked as a trainee lawyer, in 1903 as a court assessor, then as a lawyer at the Berlin Chamber of Commerce .

In 1906 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD . From 1906 to 1909 he continued his music studies as a pupil with Hermann Kretzschmar , Johannes Wolf and Wilhelm Klatte . He wrote articles for the magazine of the International Music Society , the Allgemeine Musikzeitung and the magazine for aesthetics and general art history . In 1913 he organized the music department of the 1st Congress for Music Aesthetics in Berlin. He was 2nd chairman of the Association of German Music Critics and 1st Secretary of the Society for Aesthetics and General Art History .

From 1911 Wolffheim owned a large villa in Grunewald , Jagowstraße 12 (today Richard-Strauss-Straße 12, at the corner of Lassenstraße), which he had built by the architect Oskar Kaufmann . However, he had to sell the house as early as 1920 and later lived in Halensee , Johann-Georg-Straße 20, not far from Kurfürstendamm  - in the same house as the philosopher Salomo Friedlaender .

Martin Breslauer , Leo Liepmannssohn : Auction catalog, Berlin 1928–1929

He also owned one of the world's most important music libraries, which he also had to dissolve and auction in 1928/29. Paul Hirsch acquired around 15,000 works from his collection .

He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

family

He was born with Betty Manheimer. Jacoby (born January 3, 1859; † 1942 in Berlin) married, the widow of the businessman Ferdinand Manheimer (1851-1905).

Fonts

  • For purchase on demand , Leipzig 1906 (diss.)
  • The Möllersche handwriting , in: Bach Yearbook , Volume 9 (1912), pp. 42–60
  • Miscellanea Musica Bio-biliographica: Mg. References as additions and improvements to Eitner's source lexicon , Leipzig 1912–1916 (with H. Springer and M. Schreiber)
  • Short list of tablature prints in the Dr. W. Wolffheim , Berlin 1921
  • The autograph of JS Bach's wedding cantata "Lustiert Pleißen-Stadt" , in: Festschrift Hermann Kretzschmar , Leipzig 1918, pp. 180–184
  • An unknown Canon by JS Bach , in: Festschrift Johannes Wolf , Berlin 1929, pp. 217–221 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Concise Tonkünstlerlexikon. 12th edition. Leipzig 1926, ISBN 3-7959-0083-2 , p. 498.
  • Hermann Abert : Illustrated music lexicon. Stuttgart 1927, p. 354.
  • Alfred Einstein : The Music Library Dr. Werner Wolffheim. In: Berliner Tageblatt and Handels-Zeitung. Vol. 57, no. 242 of May 24, 1928, 4th supplement, p. [1] ( digitized version ).
  • Martin Breslauer, Leo Liepmannssohn: Auction of the music library of Dr. Werner Wolffheim. 2 parts and 2 table volumes. Berlin 1928/1929.
  • Erich Hermann Müller: German Musicians Lexicon. Dresden 1929, p. 538.
  • Johannes Wolf , Alfred Einstein , Max Dessoir , Werner Wolffheim in memory. In: Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History. Vol. 25, 1931, pp. 94-96 ( digitized version ).
  • Theo Stengel : Lexicon of Jews in Music. Berlin 1940, p. 485.
  • Hugo Riemann : Music Lexicon. 12th edition. Volume 2, Mainz 1961, p. 945.
  • Michael Heinemann : The Bach Lexicon. 2nd Edition. Laaber 2000, p. 557.
  • Albi Rosenthal : Werner Wolffheim. In: Music in the past and present. Volume 17, Kassel a. a. 2007, col. 1122.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 10. Munich 2008, p. 741.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Peter-Alexander Bösel, Berlin-Grunewald in historical views , Erfurt 2005, p. 94 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Yearbook of the Society of Bibliophiles , Volume 18 (1927), p. 52 ( digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Wolffheim, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolffheim, Werner Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1930
Place of death Berlin