Hermann Abert

Hermann Josef Abert ( born March 25, 1871 in Stuttgart, † August 13, 1927 ) was a German music historian.

Life

Hermann Abert was the son of the Stuttgart court Kapellmeister Johann Joseph Abert and received his first musical education from this. He attended high school and conservatory in his hometown and served in 1889/90 as a one-year volunteer.

From 1890 to 1896 Abert studied classical philology at the universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Leipzig. During his studies in Tübingen, he joined the South German liberalism formative Tübingen fraternity Academic Society Stuttgardia. He completed his studies in 1896 in Halle with a thesis on Greek music from. In Tübingen, he was in 1897 with a thesis on the musical aesthetics of classical antiquity to the Dr. phil. doctorate. The next three years studied Abert to 1900 Musicology at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and also worked from 1898 to 1901 as a Berlin music critic of the Swabian Mercury. In 1902 he habilitated with a theme about music aesthetics of the Middle Ages at the University of Halle for Musicology. His inaugural lecture was about the romance in the music.

The musical life of the city hall enriched Abert, inter alia, by the revival of 1813 abolished Collegium Musicum of the University. He has published numerous articles and monographs on the German music history (Music perception of the Middle Ages, 1905), but also to Italian operas ( Nicolo Jommelli, 1909). He also edited historical scores, among other things, by Christoph Willibald von Gluck.

Abert remained as a lecturer in Halle, where he was appointed by the Ministry of Culture to the ordinary honorary professor in 1909 and was awarded in 1912 at the University a position as associate professor. From 1914 Abert made ​​as a captain of the militia ( adjutant in the district headquarters Schwäbisch Hall ) military service ( awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for War Aid and the Württemberg Wilhelm Medal with swords ). In 1917, discharged from the army, Abert occurred on a massive scale that the musicology would be in hall by an Ordinariate. He received the full professorship in 1918 and moved with this in 1919 at the University of Heidelberg. But after a year Abert took up an appointment at the University of Leipzig and in 1920 was there, the successor of the musicologist Hugo Riemann. In 1923 he was taken to the University of Berlin, as was seen in him the appropriate successor of Hermann Kretzschmar; also a musicologist. In Berlin, Abert was recorded in 1925 as a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and was the first musicologist, which befell this honor. He was also Chairman of the Prussian Music History Commission.

Edited by Abert in collaboration with Friedrich Blume, Rudolf Gerber, Hans Hoffmann and Theodor Schwartzkopff illustrated music lexicon turned out to be plagiarism in 1928, edited by Alfred Einstein ( new music lexicon and Hugo Riemann - music lexicon ); cf Frankfurter Zeitung on Saturday, August 11, 1928.

Works

  • The aesthetic principles of medieval melodies education. Univ. Habil, Halle / Saale 1902
  • Collected writings and lectures. Schneider, Tutzing, 1968 ( reprint of Hall 1929)
  • Johann Joseph Abert. His life and his works. Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt 1983 ISBN 3-922923-26-7 ( reprint of the edition Leipzig 1916)
  • The doctrine of the Ethos in the Greek music. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1899. Zugl. Diss phil.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A Biography. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1920
  • As Hg, Illustrated music encyclopedia. J. Engel horn Nachf., Stuttgart 1927
  • Carl Maria von Weber. In: German Rundschau, Nov. 1926
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