Hernried, Robert (Franz Richard)
Hernried, Robert (Franz Richard)
Hernried, Robert (Franz Richard), Austrian- American musicologist and composer; b. Vienna, Sept. 22, 1883; d. Detroit, Sept. 3, 1951. He was trained in Vienna at the Cons, and the Univ. He taught theory at the Mannheim Academy of Music (1919–22), the Heidelberg Cons. (1923), in Erfurt (1924–26), and in Berlin at the Stern Cons. (1926–28) and the Staatliche Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik (1927–34). In 1939 he went to the U.S. and taught at St. Ambrose Coll. in Davenport, Iowa (1940–2), the State Teachers Coll. in Dickin- son, N. Dak. (1942–43), and St. Francis Coll. in Fort Wayne, Ind. (1943–46); he then was prof, of theory and composition at the Detroit Inst. of Musical Art (1946–51). He publ, studies on Jaques-Dalcroze (Geneva, 1929) and Brahms (Leipzig, 1934), as well as Allgemeine Musiklehre (Berlin, 1932) and Systematische Modulationslehre (Berlin, 1935; 2nd ed., 1948). Among his compositions were the operas Francesca da Rimini and Die Bäuerin, orch. works, and much choral music.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire