Hugo Leichtentritt

Hugo Leichtentritt ( born January 1, 1874 in Pleschen in Poznan, † November 13, 1951 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was a German musicologist.

Life

Born in Germany and raised, Hugo Leichtentritt was sent at age 15 to America. He attended secondary school in Somerville, Massachusetts. Subsequently, he studied at the Academy of Music in Berlin. After that, he was at Harvard University student of John Knowles Paine. After 1894 the BA got here, he continued his studies in Germany at the Royal Academy in Berlin and continued his PhD in 1901 with a thesis on Reinhard Keiser in his operas. As of that same year he was as a teacher of composition, music history and aesthetics at the Klindworth - Scharwenka Conservatory worked, and taught there until 1924. He wrote in addition also a music critic for The Music, the Universal Music newspaper Vossische newspaper and signals for the musical world and also worked as a correspondent for the New York Musical Courier and for the London Musical Times. As a guest author, he was, in the twenties, even at the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. In the German Army, he served 1917/18 as a clerk. Then he gave in Berlin, almost exclusively as a private tutor, lessons in composition. As a Jew Leichtentritt 1933 was forced to leave Germany and emigrated to the United States, where he settled in Cambridge / Massachusetts. Leichtentritt was until his retirement in 1940 Professor at Harvard University, but continued until 1944, at New York University lectures.

Importance

Leichtentritt had a high level of general education and had basic knowledge of literature, languages ​​and philosophy, which allowed him to represent music world-historical contexts. As historians are especially his activities with the motet, the madrigal and the German Opera of Meaning. Again, he had the contemporary music with great interest. For a long time were considered his history of the motet (1908 ) and musical form (1911 ) as standard works. Among his most prominent writings include his incurred in the United States Music, History, and Ideas (1938 ) and, posthumously published in 1956 constitute Music of the Western Nations a synthesis of his musical ideas. Leichtentritt composed two operas, of which the Sicilians was premiered in 1920 in Freiburg. He wrote a symphony, concertos, chamber music and songs in neo-baroque style with impressionist influence. He never achieved with these mostly unpublished works but a lot of attention.

  • Reinhard Keiser in his operas. A contribution to the history of the early German opera. Dissertation Berlin 1901 Berlin 1901.
  • Frederick Chopin. Berlin 1905; .
  • Frederick Chopin. Second improved edition, Berlin 1920 Dutch. Hague 1926.
  • History of music. Berlin 1905.
  • History of the motet. Leipzig 1908.
  • Musical form. Leipzig 1911, English: Musical form Cambridge / Massachusetts, 1951.
  • Erwin Lendvai. Berlin 1912.
  • Ferruccio Busoni. Leipzig 1916.
  • Analysis of Chopin's Piano works. 2 vols. Berlin 1921.
  • Handel. Stuttgart / Berlin, 1924.
  • Ignatz Waghalter. New York 1924.
  • The Conservatory of Music Klindworth - Scharwenka. Berlin from 1881 to 1931. Berlin 1931.
  • The Complete Pianoforte Sonatas of Beethoven. New York 1936.
  • Everybody's Little History of Music. New York 1938.
  • Music, History, and Ideas. Cambridge / Massachusetts in 1938; Spanish: Buenos Aires in 1945; Japanese Tokyo 1970.
  • Music of the Western Nations. Edited and enlarged by Nicolas Slonimsky. Cambridge / Massachusetts, 1956 ( posthumously ).

Papers

  • An ancestor of the Berlioz Requiem. In: General music newspaper. 30, 1903, pp. 677-681.
  • About caring for old vocal music. In: Journal of the International Music Company. 6, 1904/1905, pp. 192-202.
  • Performances of older music in Berlin. In: Journal of the International Music Company. 7, 1905/ 06, pp. 368-372.
  • What to teach us the sculptures of the 14th - 17th Century to the instrumental music of their time? . In: anthologies of the International Music Company. 7, 1915, S.604 - 622.
  • The Renaissance attitude toward music. In: Musical Qarterly. 1, 1915, pp. 604-622.
  • The sources of the new in music. In: Melos. 1, 1920, pp. 28-33.
  • Nationalism and Internationalism in Music. In: Sackbut. 2 1921 /22, Issue 12, pp. 13-16.
  • Philipp Jarnach. In: Music sheets of dawn. 5, 1923, pp. 258-262.
  • The Handel's operatic work. In: The music. 16, 1923/24, pp. 551-557.
  • German Music of the Last Decade. In: The Musical Quarterly. 10, 1924, pp. 193-218.
  • Harmonic Daring in the 16th Century. In: Modern Music. 5 1927 /28, Issue 1, pp. 12-21.
  • Schoenberg and tonality. In: Modern Music. 5 1927 /28, Issue 4, pp. 3-10.
  • Schubert 's early operas. In: The Musical Quarterly. 14, 1928, pp. 620-638.
  • Arnold Schoenberg's op.19. In: Music 25, 1932/33, pp. 405-412.
  • Handel's Harmonic Art In: The Musical Quarterly. 21, 1935, pp. 208-223.
  • On Editing Netherlands Music. In: Musical Mercury 2, 1935, pp. 5-11.
  • On the Prologue in Early Opera. In: Papers of the American Musicological Society. 1936, pp. 88-95.
  • The Reform of Trent and Its Effect on Music. In: The Musical Quarterly. 30, 1944, pp. 319-328.

Editions

Music

  • H. Praetorius, Selected Works, Leipzig 1905
  • Masterpieces of Music, Leipzig 1905
  • J. Schenk, Scherzi musicali, Amsterdam 1907
  • Dt. House music from four centuries, Volume 1, Berlin 1907
  • A. Hammerschmidt, Selected Works, Leipzig 1910
  • T. Traetta, Selected Works, Leipzig 1914
  • L. van Beethoven, 7 Ouv., New York 1938
  • P. Čajkovskij, Orchestral Works, New York 1939
  • W. A. Mozart Symph KV 385, 504, 543, 550, 551, New York 1939
  • J. Brahms, Var. on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 1 and 2, New York 1939
  • L. Bussler, Practical Harmony (1875 ), extended Berlin 1903
  • L. Bussler, The severe sentence in the musical theory of composition (1877 ), 2nd expanded edition, rev. and provided with explanatory notes, Berlin 1905
  • L. Bussler, musical form (1878), extended Berlin 1909
  • A.W. Ambros, History of Music, Volume 4 (1878, posthumous), Leipzig 1909
  • L. van Beethoven, letters, Leipzig 1912
  • W. A. Mozart, letters, Leipzig 1912
  • J. C. Lobe, Catechism of Music (1851 ), Leipzig 1913
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