Ludwig Nohl

Ludwig Nohl ( born December 5, 1831 in Iserlohn, † December 15, 1885 in Heidelberg ) was a German musicologist and writer on music.

Life

After attending high school in Duisburg Nohl first studied law at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin, where he next took music lessons with Siegfried Dehn and Friedrich Kiel. 1853 to 1856 he was a trainee, then made ​​trips to France and Italy and then became a music teacher in Heidelberg. In 1860 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Mozart and was a lecturer in "History and Aesthetic of Music ".

1864 moved to Munich Nohl, sought the acquaintance of Richard Wagner - for whose works he campaigned as a writer - and was honored in 1865 for a collection of Mozart's letters of King Ludwig II with the title of professor at the University of Munich. The University refused Nohl from however, so he was able to engage in any teaching. In the same year he discovered the " industry teacher " Babeth Bredl in Munich, the now lost autograph of Beethoven Album Leaf "Für Elise", which he in his book New Beethoven letters published in 1867 for the first time.

1868 to 1872 he lived in Badenweiler and then returned back to Heidelberg. In 1875 he became a lecturer at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe and in 1880 appointed professor there. (From the device was later the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology forth. )

Nohl was one of the most widely read writer on music of his time. His numerous books often experienced several editions. Constant, who did much especially as Beethoven scholar. A part of his estate owns the city archives in Iserlohn.

Friedrich Nietzsche discovered in the early summer of 1888 in a hotel library on Nohl's Wagner biography in which he seemed to himself as Wagner- trailer. 1888 Nietzsche was indeed already become bitter Wagner enemy, so that he could only mock Nohl's concoction. This prevented him certainly not because exploit Nohl's book for his own polemic against Wagner. So he used it in The Case of Wagner.

Robert Eitner characterized Nohl's uncritical fallenness of Wagner with the words: "He had finally written through these writings and countless newspaper articles in professional, entertainment and political leaves in a true Berserkerwuth against everything that did not derive from Wagner and Liszt. Each theme, each older masters, only had to serve to the pedestal on which he rose Wagner and Liszt. He went so far as to the greatest contempt of all that has been componirt front of and beside Wagner. His infatuation went so far as to revile the entire German people and every opportunity, it should provide contemptuously, just under the impression that Wagner and Liszt not sufficiently adored, he wanted to know recognized as the only ones who for the salvation of art and mankind would ever bought. [ ... ] Or, in another place, it is the Musikgebahren Meyerbeer 's consistently the type of monkey that shows us the natural movements of the outer and inner man in the deep feeling infringing disfigurement. It is a frightening picture of inner poverty '. N. himself provides us in all these things a horrific picture of absurdity. His judgments are so well screwed on the one as on the other side and ridiculous, so when he says about the Elsa in Lohengrin, she is the woman of the future, of which we have to hope for the salvation of all '. Notwithstanding the fact that criticism relentlessly held on N. Court, he was yet in his demeanor not control; she finally fell silent him dead. "

  • W. A. Mozart. An attempt from the aesthetics of music. Habilitation thesis to obtain the venia docendi at the philosophical faculty of the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg: Bangel and Schmitt, 1860
  • The Spirit of Music, Frankfurt / M. 1861
  • The Magic Flute. Reflections on the importance of dramatic music in the history of the human mind, Frankfurt / M.: Sauerland, 1862
  • Mozart, Stuttgart: Bruckmann, 1863
  • Inventarium of Beethoven's estate to the extent that the same is found in the estate of ... Anton Schindler and currently in the hands of Mrs. Marie Egloff ... is: (now owner of this collection Mr. Nowotny ... ) taken in June 1864 in Mannheim by Ludwig Nohl, Carlsbad 1864
  • Beethoven's life, 3 volumes, 1864 Vienna, Leipzig 1867 and 1877 ( the first scientific biography of Beethoven )
  • Beethoven letters, with a facsimile, Stuttgart 1865
  • Musical sketchbook, Frankfurt / M. 1866
  • New letters of Beethoven, Stuttgart 1867
  • Musikerbriefe. A collection of letters from CW Gluck, CPE Bach, Josh. Haydn, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Leipzig: Duncker and Humblot, 1867
  • Mozart's Letters, Salzburg: Dove, 1877
  • New sketchbook. For knowledge of German, namely the Munich music and opera states of presence, Munich: Carl Merhoff, 1869
  • New images from the life of music and its masters, Munich: Louis Finsterlin, 1870
  • Beethoven's breviary. Collection of the solid by himself passages from poets and writers ancient and modern times; together with a presentation of Beethoven's spiritual development, Leipzig: Ernst Julius Günther, 1870
  • Gluck and Wagner. On the development of the musical drama, Munich: Louis Finsterlin, 1870
  • The Beethoven - celebration and the art of the present. A memorial gift, Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1871
  • Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner. A picture of the art movement of our century, Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1874
  • A silent love for Beethoven. According to the diary of a young lady, Leipzig: Ernst Julius Günther, 1875
  • Music and music history. Opening address to his teaching at the Grand Ducal Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe on November 17, 1875 held by Ludwig Nohl, Karlsruhe: Müller, 1876
  • Our spiritual formation, Leipzig: Schlömp, 1877
  • Mozart 's life. For the educated of all classes told, 2nd edn, Leipzig: Günther, 1877
  • Beethoven, from the accounts of his contemporaries, Stuttgart: JG Cotta, 1877
  • Mozart from the accounts of his contemporaries, Leipzig: Thiel, 1880
  • General history of music, popular dargest, Leipzig. Reclam, 1881
  • Mosaic. For musically - educated, Leipzig: Gebrüder Senf, 1882
  • Richard Wagner 's importance to the national art, Vienna: Prochaska, 1883
  • Spohr, Leipzig: Reclam, 1884 ( = Musician Biographies, Volume 7 )
  • The modern music drama. For the educated layperson, 1884
  • The historical development of chamber music and its significance for the musician, Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1885

Papers

  • Beethoven 's death, in: Westermann's Illustrated German monthly magazine, Volume 18 (1864 /65), pp. 620-650
  • Unpublished Letters of Beethoven, in: Westermann's Illustrated German Monatshefte, Volume 19 (1865 ), pp. 306-313
  • A prayer of Beethoven. New Mittheilungen of his later life, in: The Grenzboten, Vol 2 (1873 ), pp. 42-120
  • The Fischhofsche handwriting. A contribution to Beethoven 's life, in: In the new Reich, born 9 (1879 ), pp. 313-330
  • Three friends of Beethoven. About Beethoven's relationship with Ignaz von Gleichenstein, Stephan von Breuning and Johann Malfatti, in: General German music newspaper, Vol 6 (1879 ), pp. 305-308, 313-315, 321-323, 329-331 and 337 - 339
  • Beethoven's last love, in: The Salon (1880 ), pp. 537-545
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