Willi Kahl

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Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm "Willi" Kahl (born July 18, 1893 in Zabern ( Alsace ), † October 3, 1962 in Cologne ) was a German musicologist .

Life

From 1911 Willi Kahl studied musicology, classical philology and German in Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich and Bonn . One of his teachers was Ludwig Schiedermair . He also completed training in music theory and piano. From 1914 to 1919 he served in the army and took part in the First World War. In 1919 he received his doctorate with Schiedermair in Bonn with the work The lyrical piano piece at the beginning of the 19th century and its prehistory in the 17th and 18th. Century . He then worked as a music critic for the Kölnische Zeitung . In 1923 he completed his habilitation with studies on the history of 18th century piano music and in the same year he joined the library service. In 1928 he became a library councilor at the University and City Library of Cologne and at the same time received an extraordinary professorship at the University of Cologne . In 1958 he retired.

The focus of his academic work is the history of piano music, Schubert research, the music history of the Rhineland and the music bibliography.

Kahl had been married to Katharina Maria Elisabeth Poppelreuter since 1923. He died at the age of 69 in a Cologne hospital.

Fonts

  • The lyrical piano piece by Schubert and his predecessors since 1810. In: Archive for Musicology . Volume 3, 1921, pp. 54–82 and pp. 99–122.
  • From the early days of the lyric piano piece. In: magazine for music. Volume 39, 1922, pp. 177-182 and pp. 201ff.
  • Schubert's lyrical piano pieces. In: Report on the International Congress for Schubert Research. Augsburg 1929, p. 196ff.
  • Norbert Burgmüller as the type of the early completed. In: The music. Volume 22.1, Issue 3, December 1929, pp. 188–190.
  • List of literature about Franz Schubert 1828–1928. Bosse, Regensburg 1938 (= Cologne contributions to music research. Volume 1).
  • Self-biographies of German musicians of the 18th ?? Century. Cologne 1948 (contains contributions by Johann Sebastian Bach , Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Johann Wilhelm Häßler , Joseph Haydn , Johann Peter Kellner , Johann Joachim Quantz , Johann Heinrich Quiel , Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel and Georg Philipp Telemann ).
  • Early textbooks for the fortepiano. In: Archives for Musicology. Volume 9, 1952, p. 231ff.
  • Studies on the history of music in Cologne in the 16th and 17th centuries (University - Tricoronatum). Cologne-Krefeld 1953 (= contributions to Rhenish music history. Issue 3).
  • The Nuremberg historical concert of 1643 and its history. In: Archives for Musicology. Volume 14, 1957, p. 281ff.
  • Catalog of the printed music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in the Cologne University and City Library. Volk, Cologne 1958 (= contributions to Rhenish music history. Issue 27).
  • Images and figures from the musical history of the Rhineland. Volk, Cologne 1964 (= contributions to Rhenish music history. Issue 59).

Sheet music editions

  • Norbert Burgmüller, Selected Songs , Mönchengladbach: Volksvereinsverlag, 1928
  • Franz Schubert, works for piano four hands , four volumes, Munich: Henle, around 1958

literature

  • Thomas Phleps: A quiet, dogged and tenacious struggle for continuity - musicology in Nazi Germany and its past-political coping , in: Isolde v. Foerster et al. (Ed.), Music Research - National Socialism - Fascism , Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488. online Uni Giessen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 2298 of October 5, 1962, registry office Cologne Lindenthal. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bald, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kahl, Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Zabern ( Alsace )
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1962
Place of death Cologne