Konrad Ameln

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Konrad Ameln
Konrad Ameln in 1980
Born(1899-07-06)6 July 1899
Neuss, German Empire
Died1 September 1994(1994-09-01) (aged 95)
Lüdenscheid, Germany
Education
Occupations
  • Musicologist
  • Hymnologist
Organizations
  • Lüdenscheider Musikvereinigung
  • Landeskirchenmusikschule Rheinland
  • Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Hymnologie

Konrad Ameln (6 July 1899 – 1 September 1994) was a German

musicologist
, who wrote standard works about Protestant church music.

Life

Childhood, youth and academic years

Born in

dissertation on Geschichte der Melodien "Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen" and "Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein".[1]

Activities

Since his youth Ameln was active in the Wandervogel movement and the Jugendmusikbewegung [de]. He published from 1925 to 1933 in the magazine Die Singgemeinde (The singing community) of the Finkensteiner Bund [de]. After further studies and activity as adult education lecturer and director of various choirs in Rendsburg and Kassel, Ameln worked from 1926 to 1928 as a specialist for music at the Stadtbibliothek Leipzig [de] municipal library,[1] and for the German central office for public libraries in Leipzig.[1] In 1928, he became director of the Singwochen of the Finkensteiner Bund.

From 1930 to 1939 Ameln was, with interruptions, a private lecturer for Protestant church music at the

NSDAP (Party number 4.261.371).[5]

At the beginning of the Second World War, Ameln volunteered for the Wehrmacht. He was first assigned to the Landesschützen-Ersatz-Bataillon VI. In April 1940 he was promoted to lieutenant in the 393rd Infantry Division. Ameln was then active for the Wehrmacht defense.[6] In January 1945 he was a captain in the Grenadier Regiment 1001 and fell into American captivity near Enns on the Danube. He was released on May 24, 1946.[7]

In 1946 Ameln tried to regain his former activity as a lecturer at the

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. However, the Protestant faculty and the State church rejected this attempt. In the post-war period Ameln was again active as a lecturer, first at the Landesmusikschule in Hannover. From 1949 to 1957 he taught hymnology and history of Protestant church music at the Landeskirchenmusikschule der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland [de]. There he edited the Handbuch der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenmusik, which has been published in numerous editions.[8] In 1959 he founded the Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Hymnologie [de
], which he led until 1967.

Ameln became known as the editor of

Bärenreiter-Verlag. On behalf of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft [de] he published the first volume of the new Hallische Händel-Ausgabe with Alexander's Feast, HWV 75.[9] For the Messiah of the same edition he provided a new German version.[10]

In 1980 he was awarded the title Professor by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Ameln died in Lüdenscheid at age 95.

Lüdenscheider Musikvereinigung

In 1935, Ameln founded, together with the physician Wilhelm Boecker, the Lüdenscheider Musikvereinigung (Lüdenscheid music association) in Lüdenscheid. He was its musical director until 1973. They organised annual music festivals where early music could be heard on period instruments, played by professionals such as Ferdinand Conrad [de] and August Wenzinger, but also contemporary music. With the beginning of the Second World War, Ameln's activities were severely restricted. After his return from American captivity in 1946, he resumed work on the music festivals.[11]

Literature

  • Helmut Pahl: Lüdenscheider Köpfe des Kulturellen Lebens von A–Z. Lüdenscheid 2003.
  • Gerhard Schuhmacher (ed.): Traditionen und Reformen in der Kirchenmusik: Festschrift für Konrad Ameln zum 75. Geburtstag am 6. Juli 1974. Kassel among others:
    ISBN 3-7618-0501-2
    .
  • ISSN 0075-2681

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Eggebrecht, Hans Heinrich (2001). "Ameln, Konrad". Grove Music Online. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  2. ^ Contemporary witness interview with Ameln's son on 30 October 1998, Stadtarchiv Lüdenscheid
  3. ^ Hans-Ulrich Thamer, Daniel Droste and Sabine Happ (ed.): Die Universität Münster im Nationalsozialismus, vol. 1, Münster 2012, p. 287
  4. ISBN 3-596-26901-6
    ; p. 254 (Fig.). Fred K. Prieberg: Handbuch Deutsche Musiker 1933-1945, CD-Rom-Encyclopedia; Kiel: Kopf, 2004, pp. 140–141.
  5. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbuch Deutsche Musiker 1933–1945, CD-Rom-Lexikon; Kiel: Kopf, 2004; p. 140.
  6. ^ Letter to Jürgen Boeckh dated May 4, 1994 in the estate Ameln, Stadtarchiv Lüdenscheid
  7. ^ Wehrbescheinigungen etc. in the Ameln estate. Hans-Ulrich Thamer, Daniel Droste und Sabine Happ (ed.): Die Universität Münster im Nationalsozialismus, vol. 1, Münster 2012, p. 287
  8. ^ Konrad Ameln (ed.): Handbuch der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenmusik, 4 volumes; Göttingen 1932–1950
  9. ^ Konrad Ameln (ed.): Georg Friedrich Händel: Das Alexander-Fest oder Die Macht der Musik. Hallische Händel-Ausgabe Serie 1: Oratorien und große Kantaten. Band 1. Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1957; Literature by and about Konrad Ameln in the German National Library catalogue
  10. ^ John Tobin (ed.): Georg Friedrich Händel: Der Messias. Hallische Händel-Ausgabe Serie 1: Oratorien und große Kantaten, volume 17; Leipzig 1965. German text by Konrad Ameln; Literature by and about Konrad Ameln in the German National Library catalogue
  11. ^ Documents on the Lüdenscheid music association in the Ameln estate, Lüdenscheid town archive

Sources

External links

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