Erich von Hornbostel

Erich Moritz von Hornbostel ( born February 25, 1877 in Vienna, † November 28, 1935 in Cambridge, England ) was an Austrian ethnomusicologist, among other things, on the the so-called Blasquintentheorie back.

Family

He was descended from a family originally from Lower Saxony, 1534-1545 mentioned in records with Henry Hornbostel there, and the son of Otto Erich von Hornbostel (1846-1910) and Helen Magnus ( 1840-1914 ). His grandfather was the objection raised in the Austrian knighthood in November 1860 Theodor Hornbostel ( 1815-1888 ).

Hornbostel married on August 21, 1903 in Berlin Susanne Apolant ( born July 22, 1881 in Berlin, † September 29, 1956 in Holtsville, Suffolk County ( New York)), the daughter of the Medical Council Dr. Eduard Apolant (* 1847) and the NN. Cohn (c. 1859) in Berlin -Wilmersdorf.

Life

Hornbostel studied chemistry in Vienna. In Berlin, he was at the Berlin Psychological Institute assistant of psychologist Carl Stumpf, who conducted research in the field of tonal psychology. During World War II he developed together with Max Wertheimer the direction listener for military application. Hornbostel worked with the construction of the Berlin Phonogram Archive, which he directed until 1933. Together with the musicologist Curt Sachs, he developed a system for classifying musical instruments, known as Hornbostel -Sachs classification. Hornbostel is considered one of the foremost representatives of Gestalt theory in the field of musicology. In 1925 he was in Berlin as ao. Professor of Systematic and Comparative Musicology appointed.

As a " half-Jew " in 1933 deprived of his offices, emigrated from Hornbostel to Switzerland and later to the United States, where he was simultaneously engaged with Max Wertheimer on the " New School for Social Research". For health reasons, but he had to leave New York soon, and finally settled in 1934 in Cambridge, UK down. He was a pioneer in the study of African and Asian music and devised a system for written recording of this music. Belonged to Fritz Bose, Henry Cowell, George Duke, Hans Hickmann, Heinrich Husmann, Mieczyslaw Kolinski, Jaap Kunst, Robert Lachmann, Curt Sachs and Marius Schneider to its students and staff.

Works

  • Erich M. von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs classification of musical instruments. An attempt. In: Journal of Anthropology. Volume 46, 1914, Issue 4-5, pp. 553-590.
  • Klaus Wachsmann, Dieter Christensen, Hans -Peter Reinecke ( Eds.): Hornbostel Opera Omnia. Springer, Berlin 1975
  • Christian Kaden, Erich Stockmann (eds): Key and ethos. Essays on ethnomusicology and music psychology. Reclam, Leipzig 1986
  • Observations over one and zweiohriges hearing. In: Journal of Psychology and its fringe science. Volume 4, 1923, pp. 64-114.
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