Walther Siegmund-Schultze

Walther Siegmund- Schultze ( born July 6, 1916 in Schweinitz, Saxony Province; † March 6, 1993 in Halle, Saxony -Anhalt ) was a German musicologist and university professor.

Life

The son of the mayor of Schweinitz 1921-1925 attended the elementary school in Schweinitz, 1925-1928 the Domgymnasium in Magdeburg, after the Johanneum in Legnica and put 1935, the Abitur. He then studied until 1939 musicology, German literature and Classical Languages ​​at the University of Breslau, where he also phil 1940 with a dissertation on Mozart's vocal and instrumental music in its motivic and thematic relations to the Dr.. received his doctorate. Siegmund- Schultze was a member of the SA and in 1937 joined the NSDAP. After completing his doctorate, he made military service in World War II and was taken prisoner.

After his return to Germany Siegmund- Schultze was from 1946 to 1948 taught at the Francke Foundations in Halle until he a reputation of the government of the then state of Saxony- Anhalt as officers in the Ministry of Education followed in 1949. In 1948 he joined the SED in 1951 he habilitated with Scripture studies on Brahms Brahms style and image. Siegmund- Schultze was from 1954 until his retirement in 1981 professor of musicology and music education at the Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg, since 1956 also director of the Institute of Musicology.

In the years 1954 to 1981 he was a member of the District Day Hall, 1955-1988 scientific secretary of the Handel Society of the GDR and its president from 1988 to 1991. Moreover, it was Siegmund- Schultze co-founder of the Handel Festival in Halle and artistic director of the Halle Music Days.

Awards

  • Handel Prize (1959 )
  • German Peace Medal (1959 )
  • Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1959 ) in Silver (1976 ) and gold ( 1981)
  • Johannes R. Becher Gold Medal (1962 )
  • National Prize of the GDR (Collective, 1969)
  • Banner of Labor (Collective, 1974)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann Prize of the city of Magdeburg ( 1987)

Works

In addition to numerous articles, texts for record sleeves, work analyzes, designs of messages for radio and television, reviews, opera and concert reviews written by Walther Siegmund- Schultze following books:

  • The music of Bach (1953 )
  • Georg Friedrich Handel. Life and Work (1954 )
  • Mozart melody and style (1958 )
  • Georg Friedrich Handel (1959 )
  • On the Concept of popularity in Art ( 1960)
  • On Some Problems of musical aesthetics (1962 )
  • Johannes Brahms (1966 )
  • Ludwig von Beethoven. A monograph (1975 )
  • Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1976)
  • Georg Friedrich Handel (1980 )
  • Georg Philipp Telemann (1980 )
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A small biography ( 1991)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Ideal - Idol - Idea (1994 )
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