Oscar Paul

Oscar Paul ( born April 8, 1836 in Freiwaldau in Silesia, † April 18, 1898 in Leipzig ) was a German musicologist.

Paul attended the Gymnasium in Görlitz, before studying theology in Leipzig from 1858. At the same time, he entered the Leipzig Conservatory and took private lessons in piano with Louis Plaidy and in music theory with Moritz Hauptmann and Ernst Friedrich Richter. During his studies he became a member of the Leipzig University singers shaft to St. Pauli (today German singer shaft ) in winter 1858/59. After receiving his doctorate in 1860, Paul turned completely to the music and his habilitation in 1866 with the work The absolute harmony of the Greeks at the University of Leipzig as a lecturer in musicology, where he was appointed professor in 1872.

Paul gave Moritz Hauptmann's posthumous doctrine of the harmony out (1868 ) and wrote their own textbook on harmony (1880 ), a German translation of the five books De Musica of Boethius (1872 ), a history of the piano (1868 ) and a hand Lexicon of Music ( Leipzig, 1870-1873 ).

Paul founded the Music Newspapers Tonhalle (1868 ) and Musical weekly paper (1870 ), but withdrew from both back soon. For many years he edited the musical part of the Leipziger Tageblatt.