Robert Haas (musicologist)

Robert Maria Haas ( born August 15, 1886 in Prague, † October 4, 1960 in Vienna ) was an Austrian musicologist and conductor.

Life

Robert Haas studied in Prague, Berlin and Vienna musicology and received his PhD in 1908 in Prague, Dr. phil. For a time he was assistant to Guido Adler at the Vienna Music History Department and then embarked on a career as Kapellmeister. In 1920 he became head of the music department of the Austrian National Library. Haas was in the 1930s as the first complete edition of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner out. For the multi-volume Handbook of Musicology of Ernst stooping, he wrote two volumes.

Haas was a party member, giving him apparently in Austria before the Anschluss of Austria to the detriment since 1933. There have been handed leader loyal and anti-Semitic remarks of Haas. He was after the war no longer teach.

Publications (selection )

• The great masters of music - Anton Bruckner, 1934, reprint Laaber, 1980
• Beethoven's death. For an unknown correspondence, in: The prelude, Vol 3 (1923 ), No. 2, pp. 48-50
• The Vienna Opera, Vienna 1926
• Viennese musicians before and around Beethoven, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig 1927
• The Este music, Regensburg 1927
• The music of the Baroque, Potsdam 1928 ( = Handbook of Musicology, ed. Ernst stooping, Volume 3 )
• Anton Rösler Requiem for Mozart, Eger 1930
• Performance Practice of Music, Potsdam 1931 ( = Handbook of Musicology, ed. Ernst stooping, in conjunction with Henry Besseler, Volume 8 )
• Bach and Mozart in Vienna, Vienna 1951