Eggebrecht, Hans Heinrich
Eggebrecht, Hans Heinrich
Eggebrecht, Hans Heinrich, eminent German musicologist and editor; b. Dresden, Jan. 5, 1919; d. Freiburg in Breisgau, Aug. 30, 1990. He attended the Gymnasium in Schleusingen, of which his father was superintendent. Eggebrecht was drafted into the army during World War II, and was severely wounded. He then studied music education in Berlin and Weimar, and received his teacher’s certificate in 1948. He subsequently studied musicology with H. J. Moser, R. Munnich, and M. Schneider, and received his Ph.D. in 1949 from the Univ. of Jena with the diss. Melchior Vulpius. He was asst. lecturer under Vetter in music history at the Univ. of Berlin from 1949 to 1951, then conducted lexicographical work in Freiburg and taught musicology at the Univ. there (1953–55). He completed his Habilitation there in 1955 with his Studien zur musikalis-chen Terminologie (publ. in Mainz, 1955; 2nd ed., 1968). He was Privatdozent at the Univ. of Erlangen (1955–56) and taught musicology at the Univ. of Heidelberg (1956–57). From 1961 to 1988 he was prof, of musicology at the Univ. of Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1964 he became ed. of the Archivfur Musikwissenschaft. One of his major musicological contributions was his publication of the vol. on musical terms and historical subjects (Sachteil) for the 12th ed. of the Riemann Musik-Lexikon (Mainz, 1967), in which he settles many debatable points of musical terminology. Equally important has been his editorship of the Handivorterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie from 1972. He also was an ed. of the Brockhaus-Riemann Musik-Lexikon with Carl Dahlhaus (2 vols., Wiesbaden and Mainz, 1978–79; suppl., 1989) and of Meyers Taschenlexikon Musik (3 vols., Mannheim, 1984).
Writings
Heinrich Schutz: Musicus poeticus (Göttingen, 1959); Ordnung und Ausdruck im Werk von Heinrich Schutz (Kassel, 1961); Die Orgelbewegung (Stuttgart, 1967); Schutz und Gottesdienst (Stuttgart, 1969); Versuch iiber die Wiener Klassik: Die Tanzszene in Mozarts Don Giovanni (Wiesbaden, 1972); Zur Geschichte der Beethoven-Rezeption: Beethoven 1970 (Wiesbaden, 1972); Musikalische Denken: Aufsatze zur Theorie und Asthetik der Musik (Wilhelmshaven, 1977); Die Musik Gustav Mahlers (Munich, 1982); Bachs Kunst der Fuge: Erscheinung und Deutung (Munich, 1984; 4th ed., 1998; Eng. tr., 1993); Die mittelalterliche Lehre von der Mehrstimmigkeit (Darmstadt, 1984); Musik im Abendland: Prozesse und Stationen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegen-wart (Munich, 1991); Orgelbau und Orgelmusik in Russland (Kleinblittersdorf, 1991); Zur Geschichte der Beethoven-Rezeption (Laaber, 1994); Musik verstehen (Munich, 1995); Die Musik und das Schone (Munich, 1997); Texte über Musik: Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler (Essen, 1997).
Bibliography
W. Breig, R. Brinkmann, and E. Budde, eds., Analysen: Beiträge zu einer Problemgeschichte des Komponierens. Festschrift fiir H. H. E. zum 65. Geburtstag (Stuttgart, 1984).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire