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Werner Danckert

Werner Danckert (22 June 1900 – 5 March 1970) was a German folk song researcher.

Life

Born in Erfurt, Danckert trained as a concert pianist after graduating from high school in 1917. He studied musicology with the subsidiary subjects philosophy and physics. In 1923 he received his doctorate in Erlangen (summa cum laude); the habilitation followed at the University of Jena in 1926.

In 1937 Danckert became a member of the NSDAP and professor at the Musikhochschule Weimar.[1] Danckert became a member of the Hauptstelle Musik at the Amt Rosenberg. At the Reichsmusiktage in Düsseldorf (1938).[2] Danckert gave a lecture on Volkstum, Stammesart, Rasse im Lichte der Volkstumsforschung.[1] In 1939 he published the book Die ältesten Spuren germanischer Volksmusik.[1] In 1943 he was given a chair in Graz and an apl. professorship in Berlin as successor of Herbert Birtner [de].[1]

After the end of the Second World War he did not return to any university,[1] but published further books on folk music and other musical topics.

Danckert died in Krefeld at age 69.

Publications

Discontinued volumes

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5, p. 106.
  2. ^ Thomas Phleps: A quiet, dogged and tenacious fight for continuity - musicology in NS-Germany and its past political coping. In Isolde v. Foerster et al. (ed.), Musicology - National Socialism - Fascism, Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488
  3. ^ Geschichte der Gigue on WorldCat
  4. ^ Ursymbole melodischer Gestaltung on WorldCat
  5. ^ Beiträge zur Bachkritik. [With musical illustrations. on WorldCat
  6. ^ Grundriss der Volksliedkunde on WorldCat
  7. ^ Das Europäische Volkslied on WorldCat
  8. ^ Goethe, der mystische Urgrund seiner Weltschau on WorldCat
  9. ^ Offenes und geschlossenes Leben, zwei Daseinsaspekte in Goethes Weltschau on WorldCat
  10. ^ Unehrliche Leute. Die verfemten Berufe on WorldCat
  11. ^ Das Volkslied im Abendland on WorldCat
  12. ^ Tonreich und Symbolzahl in Hochkulturen und Primitivenwelt on WorldCat
  13. ^ Musik und Weltbild : Morphologie der abendländischen Musik on WorldCat

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