Zofia Lissa

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Zofia Lissa (born October 19, 1908 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary , † March 26, 1980 in Warsaw ) was a Polish musicologist .

Grave site

Life

Lissa studied musicology at the Conservatory and philosophy and psychology at the University of Lemberg . She received her doctorate in 1930. phil. Then she worked as a music teacher and at Radio Lviv. Before the German occupation of Lviv in 1941, she was deported to the Soviet Union and taught music in Namangan in the Uzbek SSR . From 1943 she was with the Union of Polish Patriots in Moscow and at the end of the war became a cultural attachée in the Polish embassy. In 1947 she qualified as a professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan with a thesis on the essence of the comic in music . In 1948 she founded an independent musicological department in the historical department of the humanistic faculty at Warsaw University, which she headed from the start. In 1951 she was appointed professor and in 1957 ordinaria . The musicological department was given the status of a chair and was renamed the Institute for Musicology in 1958, of which Zofia Lissa was director until 1975. Since 1965 she was a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . She was a representative of socialist realism in music.

Lissa organized the first Frédéric Chopin Congress in Warsaw in 1960.

Her most important works in musicology were her dissertation (1929) on Alexander Nikolajewitsch Skrjabin's harmonics and her award-winning book Aesthetics of Film Music ( Estetyka muzyki filmowej , 1964), which was translated into German by Lothar Fahlbusch and Katja Weintraub in 1965.

Fonts in German translation

  • Questions of musical aesthetics . Berlin 1954
  • About the specifics of music . Berlin 1957
  • The Chopinian harmonics from the perspective of sound technology of the 20th century , in: Deutsches Jahrbuch der Musikwissenschaft , Vol. 2 (1957) and 3 (1958)
  • Chopin seen in the light of the correspondence between publishers of his time , in: Fontes Artis Musicae , Jg. 7 (1960), pp. 46–57
  • Chopin's letters to Delfina Potocka , in: Die Musikforschung , vol. 15 (1962), pp. 341–353
  • Aesthetics of Film Music , Berlin: Henschel, 1965
  • Essays on musical aesthetics . Berlin 1969
  • New essays on musical aesthetics . Wilhelmshaven 1975

Web links

Commons : Zofia Lissa  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aesthetics of Film Music: Zofia Lissa (1965, Berlin: Henschel) . UB of the Goethe University Frankfurt
  2. ^ Zofia Lissa in: Lexicon MUGi - Music and Gender on the Internet, University of Music and Theater in Hamburg
  3. ^ Members of the SAW: Zofia Lissa. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Lissa, Zofia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1980
Place of death Warsaw