Kurt Reinhard (musicologist)

Kurt Reinhard Georg August ( born August 27, 1914 in Giessen, † July 18, 1979 ) was a German musicologist and composer.

Professional career

Kurt Reinhard studied composition, musicology, art history and ethnology in Cologne, Leipzig and Munich. In 1938 he received his doctorate in Munich with a study of the music of Burma. From 1939 Reinhard employees in the instrument collection of the National Institute for German Music Research in Berlin. After the Second World War he worked as a music critic and led from 1947 to 1952, the private music teacher seminar on Peters'schen Conservatory in Berlin. In 1948 he was appointed lecturer in Comparative Musicology at the Free University of Berlin and his habilitation in 1950. From 1952 to 1968 he directed the 1963 renamed in music ethnological Phonogram Archive at the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin, now the Museum of Ethnology. Successor from 1968 to 1972 was his pupil Dieter Christensen. 1957 Reinhard was appointed professor at the Free University, where he directed until his retirement in 1977, the Department of Comparative Musicology.

Importance as an ethnomusicologist

Reinhard dealt with general ethnomusicological and instrument known union issues, dealt with the music and the musical instruments of Asia, Oceania, Africa and South America and sat particular attention to the Music of Turkey apart. In 1960 he published a classification of musical instruments, in which he divided the musical instruments according to morphological criteria in large regions, to bring the same type according to their musical instruments using closer together than is the case with the known Hornbostel -Sachs classification. Turkey, he traveled several times since 1955 and explored the folk and art music. His wife Ursula Reinhard, which itself was a researcher and her husband stood, especially in the foreign language and literary aspects of his research to the side supported him. She took some work Kurt Reinhard after his death continues. So finally, posthumously published in 1984 a first and standard-setting German -language monograph of Turkish music in two volumes. 1973 Kurt Reinhard was awarded by the Turkish government for his contributions to the study of Turkish music.

Works

Music science (selection)

  • The music of Burma. Series of Musicology at the University of Munich V, Würzburg 1939.
  • The music of exotic peoples. Berlin 1951.
  • Chinese music. Kassel, Eisenach in 1956.
  • Contributions to a new classification of musical instruments. Mf XIII, 1960.
  • Turkish music. In: Publications of the Museum of Ethnography. Volume IV, 1, Berlin 1962.
  • With Ursula Reinhard: On the fiddle my ... folk songs of the eastern Turkish Black Sea coast. In: Publications of the Museum of Ethnography. Volume XIV, 3, 1968.
  • Introduction to Ethnomusicology. In: Contributions to music education. Volume XXI, Wolfenbüttel 1968.
  • With Ursula Reinhard: Turquie. In: Les traditions musicales. Volume IV, Paris 1969.
  • Twenty years rebuilding the Berlin Phonogram Archive. In: Yearbook of musical folk and Ethnology. Volume VI, 1972.
  • Foundations and results of the investigation of Turkish music. In: AMI. Volume XLIV, 1972.
  • Comments on the Aşık, the folk singers of Turkey. Asian Music, 1975, p 189-206.
  • The musical culture of Turkish nomads. In: Journal of Anthropology. 1975, pp. 115-124.
  • With Ursula Reinhard in the series pocket books on musicology. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1984. Music of Turkey. The art of music. ISBN 3-7959-0425-0.
  • Music of Turkey. The folk music. ISBN 3-7959-0426-9.

Furthermore Kurt Reinhard wrote many posts primarily for folk music and art music of Turkey.

Compositions (selection )

  • Music for Fl. and 3 strings. In 1936.
  • Theme with six variations for Fl. and Streichorch. In 1936.
  • III. Piano Concerto. In 1947.

He also wrote chamber music, songs and chants, male choirs, and cantatas.

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