Max Unger (musicologist)

Max Unger ( born May 28, 1883 in Taura, Saxony, † December 1, 1959 in Zurich ) was a German musician and musicologist who has made mainly earned as Beethoven scholar.

Life

Unger, the son of a manufacturer, studied from 1904 to 1906 at the Leipzig Conservatory, and from 1908 at the University of Leipzig with Heinrich Zöllner and Hugo Riemann. In 1911 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Muzio Clementi. After participating in the First World War it was 1919/20, editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. From 1932 to 1939 he lived in Zurich and drew up a catalog of the valuable collection of his works of the local industrialist Hans Conrad Bodmer, who later bequeathed this the Beethoven House in Bonn. 1939 Unger moved to Volterra near Pisa. While Unger was in 1935 denounced by the National Socialist Cultural Community as " Musikbolschewist " he collaborated now with the Nazis and worked from 1942 or 1943 at the Italian Operations Staff Reich Leader Rosenberg and the Official Music of the Commissioner of the Führer for the monitoring of the entire intellectual and ideological training and education of the NSDAP. In this role he was involved in the cataloging of Jewish property stolen in Paris music literature, including the music library of the harpsichordist Wanda Landowska fled into exile.

1957 Unger returned from Italy to Zurich.

Max Unger was one of the most important Beethoven scholar of the first half of the 20th century. His literary estate and his library acquired 1961 the Beethoven-Haus.

Writings

  • On traces of Beethoven's " Immortal Beloved". Langensalza 1910.
  • Muzio Clementi's life. Langensalza 1913.
  • Contributions to Johann Ladislaus Dussek's biography. In: New Music Newspaper. Vol 35 (1914 ), pp. 170-174.
  • Beethoven on a complete edition of his works, Bonn 1920.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven and his publishers SA Steiner and Tobias Haslinger in Vienna, Ad. Mart. Schlesinger in Berlin. Berlin / Vienna 1921.
  • Beethoven's handwriting. Bonn 1926.
  • A Swiss Beethoven collection. Catalog. Zurich 1939 ( Catalogue of the collection H. C. Bodmer ).
  • A Faust opera plan Beethoven and Goethe. Regensburg 1952.
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