Wilibald Gurlitt

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Wilibald Ludwig Ferdinand Gurlitt (born March 1, 1889 in Dresden , † December 15, 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German musicologist .

Life

Wilibald Gurlitt, son of the art historian Cornelius Gurlitt and brother of Hildebrand and Cornelia Gurlitt , received his doctorate in 1914 under Hugo Riemann in Leipzig with a thesis on Michael Praetorius . In 1919 he became a lecturer , in 1920 associate professor and in 1929 full professor at the University of Freiburg . There he founded the musicological seminar and a Collegium Musicum , with which he organized performances of medieval music for the first time in public in 1922 in Karlsruhe and 1924 in Hamburg. As a promoter of the " organ movement " he had the so-called Praetorius organ built by the Ludwigsburg organ builder Oscar Walcker (nephew of Paul Walcker ) in the musicological seminar of the university , the plan of which was based on the information in Praetorius' Organographia printed in 1619 . It was destroyed by bombs in 1944 and rebuilt in 1954/55 by Werner Walcker-Mayer in the auditorium of the University of Freiburg after Michael Praetorius' first, larger arrangement.

Gurlitt was considered to be “ Jewish misfits ” in the Third Reich and was removed from office in 1937. He was no longer allowed to publish, was excluded from all committees and monitored by the Gestapo , and his children were refused school attendance.

In 1945 he was reinstated as a full professor . From 1946 to 1948 he was visiting professor at the University of Bern , from 1955 to 1956 visiting professor at the University of Basel . In 1953, Wilibald Gurlitt was made an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of Leipzig University.

Gurlitt focused on the "authentic" sound form of older music and initiated a systematic research into musical terminology. Its international reputation contributed to German music research becoming internationally known again after the Second World War. His students include Konrad Ameln , Fritz Dietrich , Wilhelm Ehmann , Joseph Müller-Blattau , Heinrich Besseler , Reinhold Hammerstein , Harald Heckmann , Günter Birkner and Wolfgang Rehm . 1937 the NSDAP member Joseph Müller-Blattau became his successor. Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht was Gurlitt's successor at the Freiburg chair since 1961.

Documents

Publications (selection)

  • On the history of the significance of musicus and cantor in Isidore of Seville (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1950, Volume 7). Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden).
  • Hugo Riemann (1849 to 1919) (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1950, Volume 25). Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden)
  • Form in music as the organization of time (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1954, Volume 13).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Hagedorn: Unheimliches Abendland. The Eggebrecht case . In: Die Zeit , No. 52/2009, p. 61
personal data
SURNAME Gurlitt, Wilibald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gurlitt, Wilibald Ludwig Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1963
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau