Ludwig Schiedermair

Ludwig Ferdinand Schiedermair ( born December 7, 1876 in Regensburg, † April 30, 1957 in Bensberg ) was German Privy Councillor and musicologist. In his musicological treatises he dealt with the history of opera, as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. In 1914 he published the first critical edition of the letters of Mozart and his family.

Life

After studying musicology in Munich and habilitation as Privatdozent in Marburg Schiedermair was 1920-1945 Professor at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. As a professor of music history at the University of Bonn, he founded on March 26, 1927 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Ludwig van Beethoven, the Beethoven-Archiv, he was its first director until 1945. In addition, he founded the Institute of Musicology at the University of Bonn as the first such institution at a German university. Schiedermair was a founding member of the Max -Reger -Institut, which he directed until 1953.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1934, he published the work The design of philosophical ideas in the folk music of Beethoven. From 1937 to 1939 he was president of the German Society of Musicology and held in this position on 27 May 1938 at the context of the Reichsmusiktage the opening speech of the musicological conference. In 1936 he received the Culture Prize of the City of Bonn and the Beethoven Medal of the City of Bonn, 1941, the Golden Mozart Medal of the Salzburg Mozarteum. During the Second World War, he also worked with the Operations Staff Reich Leader Rosenberg.

In 1945 he became Professor Emeritus. In 1952 he became an honorary member of the Society for Music Research.

Publications

• The young Beethoven, Leipzig 1925; Reprint Hildesheim 1978
• The German Opera, Leipzig 1930; 2nd expanded edition Bonn 1940, 3rd revised edition Bonn 1943