Wilhelm Heinitz

Wilhelm Heinitz (born December 9, 1883 in Altona , † March 31, 1963 in Hamburg ) was a German musicologist .

After training and working as a bassoonist , Heinitz joined the Phonetic Laboratory of the University of Hamburg in 1915 , where he studied musicology. He obtained his doctorate on a topic of phonetics in Kiel in 1920 and completed his habilitation in 1931 with the text structure problems in primitive music at the University of Hamburg, where he then headed the research department for comparative musicology until 1949 . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

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Books

• Instrumentology (= Ernst Bücken (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft. ). Athenaion, Wildpark-Potsdam 1929.

items

• Experimental research on musical reproduction. In: Archives for the whole of psychology. Vol. 34, 1915, pp. 254-276 .
• A lexical order for comparing melodies. In: Archives for Musicology . Vol. 3, No. 3, 1921, pp. 247-254 .
• Time problems in JS Bach's “Well-Tempered Clavier”. In: Walther Vetter , Franz von Glasenapp, Ursula Schneider, Walther Siegmund-Schultze (eds.): Festschrift Max Schneider for the eightieth birthday. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1955, pp. 147–152.

literature

• Thomas Phleps : A quiet, dogged and tenacious struggle for continuity - musicology in Nazi Germany and coping with past politics. In: Isolde von Foerster, Christoph Hust, Christoph-Hellmut Mahling (eds.): Music research - National Socialism - Fascism. Lectures at the Schloss Engers conference (March 8 to 11, 2000) (= Are Edition. 2065 = Music in the Meter of Power. 1). Are-Musik-Verlag, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-924522-06-5 , pp. 471-488, ( online Uni Giessen ).

Individual evidence

• Horst Seeger : Music Lexicon. People A – Z. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1981, p. 328.