Max Schneider (music historian)
Max Schneider (20 July 1875 – 5 May 1967) was a German
Life
Born in
At the
After 1945 he joined the Free German Trade Union Federation. He taught far beyond his Emeritus in 1950 until 1962. Furthermore he taught music history and score playing at the Staatliche Hochschule für Theater und Musik Halle founded in 1947.[1]
Schneider took on the editorship of the Bach-Jahrbuch of the Neue Bachgesellschaft. This annual publication had been suspended during the war years and the previous editor Arnold Schering had died. The Jahrbuch covering the years 1940-1948 came out in 1947 as Volume 37 (published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig).
Schneider was co-editor of the
From 1955 to 1967 he was president of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft in Halle. In 1961 he was awarded the Handel Prize.[1]
Schneider died in Halle at age 91. His grave is located on the Laurentius-Cemetery in Halle.
References
- ^ Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
[TRANSLATED] Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Further reading
- ISBN 0-333-60800-3
- ISBN 3-7618-1134-9 (On line)
- Gerhard Scheuermann: Das Breslau-Lexikon, Band 2. Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 1994, ISBN 3-87466-157-1, p. 1515.
External links
- Literature by and about Max Schneider (music historian) in the German National Library catalogue
- Max Schneider in Catalogus Professorum Halensis
- Max Schneider in Encyclopedia Britannica