Guido Adler

Guido Adler ( born November 1, 1855 in Eibenschütz, Moravia, † February 15, 1941 in Vienna ) was an Austrian musicologist. He is considered the founder of the Viennese musicology.

Life

Guido Adler was the son of a doctor. After his early death (1856 ) the mother moved with her six children unserved by Jihlava, where eagles attended elementary school and received his first piano lessons. An imperial grace board and the support of relatives allowed the family 's livelihood. In 1864 he went to Vienna, where he attended the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music in September 1869 in Vienna. His teachers were William Schenner and Josef Dachs (piano ), Anton Bruckner in harmony ( as a minor ) and Otto Dessoff ( theory and composition ). After graduation in 1873 he also studied law, which he finished in 1878 with a doctorate. However, he only worked three months as a lawyer. In June 1874 he made ​​his pianist diploma at the Conservatory. First, however, he decided against a career as a composer.

With his fellow students at the Conservatory Arthur Nikisch and Felix Mottl, he handed Richard Wagner a special cup. As a spokesman for the Konservatoristen he gave a speech to Franz Liszt. Adler was a founding member of the Academic Wagner Society and held as such 1875-76 a cycle of lectures for introduction into the Ring of the Nibelung. The work of August Wilhelm Ambros, Friedrich Chrysander, Otto Jahn and Philipp Spitta 's music history affections were aroused and after a short practice at the Vienna Commercial Court, he turned to music to science. In his studies, promoted him to the Viennese professor Eduard Hanslick.

In 1880 he received his doctoral degree at the University of Vienna. In 1884, Eagle in clubs with Philipp Spitta and Friedrich Chrysander the quarterly magazine of Musicology, which he edited together with these during their ten years of existence. In 1885, he was from Eduard Hanslick as a professor in Prague and founded in 1898 the Musicological Institute of the University of Vienna, of which he was until his retirement in 1927.

In 1888, he suggested with a memorandum on the issue of Monumenta historiae musices on an international basis, in addition to monuments publications, documents, and source documents of historical and theoretical way to edit. It was initially limited to the monuments of music in Austria, which appeared in 1894 under the Eagle line in 83 volumes to 1938 continuously. In 1892 he organized the music history department of the International Music and Theatre Exhibition in Vienna and led the Austrian government to purchase the Trent codices.

He founded Music Historical Institute Vienna became the focus of Austrian music research. The 1913-38 appearing as Beihefte of Monuments of Music in Austria annually studies musicology provide valuable treatises eagle school. He organized the international musicological conferences to Haydn ( 1909) and the Beethoven centenary (1927 ) in Vienna.

In 1927 he gave the impetus for the founding of the International Musicological Society, based in Basel, as its honorary president he served until his death. In the same year he retired from teaching, but retained the leadership of the Monuments of Music in Austria until the publicist was refused in 1938. His valuable library was confiscated after his death at the instigation of his ungrateful student Erich Schenk and assigned to the proposed by him seminars without compensation to the heirs.

Guido Adler was appointed by the Society of Friends of Music honorary member. In 1938 the Society of Friends of Music was in fact dissolved in Vienna, provided only under acting head and then incorporated the same name as the Vienna State Theater and Stage Academy. During the period of National Socialism because of anti-Semitic attitude was a withdrawal of honorary membership. Adler was also discriminated against in Herbert Gerigks Encyclopedia of Jews in the music and there with a deliberately false date of death entered (14 December 1933). Since the re- establishment of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna, 1945, Guido Adler (as well as Bruno Walter, Carl Goldmark and others) out again as an honorary member.

In March 1941 his daughter had him buried quietly, 1980, the reburial of an ordinary urn field in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 32 C, number 51). 1998 "100 Years of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna" Guido Adler had been dedicated to two separate cabinets of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna in the exhibition.

His son Achim Adler emigrated earlier in the United States. His daughter Melanie Karoline Adler was deported in May 1942 from Vienna to Minsk and murdered on May 26, 1942 at the extermination camp Maly Trostinez.

Quote

• Guido Adler was a quiet fellow. At least, Gustav Mahler must have felt it. Mahler supposed to have said of him: " If I want to be alone, I 'll go with Guido Adler for a walk. "

Works

• Chronological list of his works with download- left
• Guido Adler: Handbook of music history, Unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition of 1929 Schneider, Tutzing 1961 ISBN 978-3-7952-0004-6. ..
• From 1894 to 1938 Adler was editor of the 83- volume work Monuments of Music in Austria.