Hans Albrecht (musicologist)

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Joachim Hans Albrecht (31 March 1902 – 20 January 1961) was a German

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
.

Life

Born in

Dr. phil.
"composer" by Johannes Wolf at the Philosophical Faculty in Berlin with a dissertation on the performance practice of Italian music of the 14th century.

After the

Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda in 1937, where he was a consultant in Department X (music) until 1939.[4] Still mentioned in 2007 in the Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich,[5] Ernst Klee waived Albrecht's inclusion in the completely revised edition of 2009.[6]

Until 1937 Albrecht held several teaching positions at

Folkwang School Food (1933–1937). He was also a member of the Deutsche Bühnenkorrespondenz. He also organized music festivals in Bremen (1929), Essen (1931) and Aachen (1933). For the Reichsverband Deutscher Tonkünstler
he co-designed the Rheinische Musikfeste.

A

Bärenreiter-Verlag in Kassel. He followed Max Seiffert in 1941, after his emeritus, as provisional director of the State Institute for German Music Research. In 1942/43 he was also a representative of musicology in the Senate of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. When the institute was closed at the end of 1944, Albrecht retired from this position. He took care of the inventory of subdivision 3 (instrument museum) at Seifertdorf castle [de] near Liegnitz in Silesia. In February 1945 he was called up for military service.[3]

After 1945 he was classified as "exonerated" within the framework of the

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. His research interests included the late 15th and early 16th century (Renaissance music
).

From 1954 to 1959 he worked as a research assistant at the German Music Historical Archive in Kassel, which was supervised by the

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. He was a close advisor Friedrich Blume and from 1947 to 1958 belonged to the editors of the encyclopaedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
.

Albrecht, a Protestant, was married and father of two children. His son Gerd Albrecht (1935–2014) was conductor. He died in Kiel at age 58.

Publications

  • Caspar Othmayr: Leben und Werk. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel/Basel 1950.
  • Die Bedeutung der Zeichen Keil, Strich und Punkt bei Mozart: 5 Lösungen einer Preisfrage (Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten. No. 10). Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel/Basel/London 1957 (hg. im Auftrag der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung).

Autobiography:

References

  1. ^ Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Deutschland, Geburtsregister 1874–1903 [Datenbank online], Standesamt Magdeburg Altstadt, Registernummer 918/1902
  2. ISBN 3-87537-271-9
    , pp. 45–66, here: p. 50f.
  3. ^ a b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbuch Deutsche Musiker 1933–1945. Kiel 2009, p. 121.
  4. ISBN 978-3-412-22394-6
    , pp. 101–146, here: p. 139, 141.
  5. ISBN 3-10-039326-0
    , p. 13.
  6. ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 (part of Anne Frank Shoah Library
    ).
  7. ^ Rudolf Häusler: 50 Jahre Internationale Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft. In Acta Musicologica 49 (1977) 1, pp. 1–27, here: p. 27.
  8. ^ Harald Heckmann: Musikwissenschaftliche Unternehmungen in Deutschland seit 1945. In Acta Musicologica 29 (1957) 2/3, p. 75–94, here p. 77.

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