Leo Schrade

Leo Schrade ( born December 13, 1903 in Olsztyn, East Prussia (today Olsztyn, Poland); † September 21, 1964 in Spéracèdes, France ) was a German -American musicologist.

Life

Schrade studied from 1923 at the Universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Leipzig, and also took some courses at the Mannheim Conservatory; among his teachers was Adolf Sandberger. After he had received his doctorate in 1927 in Leipzig, he was teaching at the universities of Bonn and Konigsberg, where he habilitated in 1929.

In the late 1930s Schrade emigrated to the United States, where he lectured at Yale University until 1958, first as a visiting professor from 1943 and finally as a professor of music history from 1948. In 1958 Schrade returned to Europe to college at Basel to succeed Jacques Handschin as Head of the Musicology Institute; the position he held until his death.

Bibliography (selection)

Writings

  • The oldest monuments of organ music as a contribution to a history of the Toccata (Dissertation, University of Leipzig, 1927)
  • The manuscript tradition of the oldest instrumental music ( Habilitation thesis, University of Königsberg, 1929)
  • Beethoven in France: the Growth of an Idea (New Haven, CT, 1942)
  • Monteverdi, Creator of Modern Music (New York, 1950)
  • Renaissance: the Historical Conception of an Epoch ( IMSCR V: Utrecht 1952, 19-32 )
  • Political Compositions in French Music of the 12th and 13th Centuries ( ANNM, i ( 1953), 9-63 Reprinted in: . De scientia musicae studia atque orationes, ed E. Lichtenhahn (Berne, 1967), 152-211 )
  • La représentation d' Edipo tiranno au Teatro Olimpico ( Vicenza 1585 ) (Paris, 1960)
  • Tragedy in the Art of Music ( Cambridge, MA, 1964)

Editions

  • Luys Milan: Libro de musica de vihuela de mano intitulado El maestro. Publications of older music, ii (Leipzig, 1927)
  • Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, 8 volumes, edited the first four ( 1956-1958 ) Vol 1: The Roman de Fauvel; The Works of Philippe de Vitry; French Cycles of the ordinarium missae
  • Vols. 2-3: Guillaume de Machaut: Works
  • Vol 4: Francesco Landini: Works
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