Joseph Schmidt-Görg
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19 March 1897
- Musicologist
- Composer
- Music editor
Joseph Schmidt-Görg | |
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| Born | Joseph Schmidt 19 March 1897 |
| Died | 3 April 1981 (aged 84) |
| Education | University of Bonn |
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Joseph Schmidt-Görg (born Schmidt 19 March 1897 – 3 April 1981) was a German musicologist, composer and music editor. As a researcher at the University of Bonn and director of the Beethoven Archive, he is regarded as one of the leading Beethoven scholars of his time.[1] He completed the new edition of Beethoven's complete works.
Born Joseph Schmidt[2] in Rüdinghausen (now part of Witten), he studied musicology at the University of Bonn with Ludwig Schiedermair, also philosophy, pedagogy and experimental physics.[3] He achieved the doctorate in 1926 with a dissertation about the masses by Clemens non Papa.[1] He composed masses and other sacred music, including a mass for five-part choir in 1924, a motet, Christus natus est, for eight voices, the same year, and a mass Missa Exultet in 1927.[1]
He officially changed his name in 1930.[1] After his habilitation that year, on Mitteltontemperatur,[3] he lectured at the university, was appointed professor in 1938, and Ordinarius in 1948. He was emerited in 1965.[1]
Schiedermair was a founding member and first director of the Beethoven Archive in Bonn in 1927. He called Schmidt-Görg to be his research assistant. Schmidt-Görg succeeded him as director in 1945 and held the post until 1972. He completed the new edition of Beethoven's complete works, Neue Beethoven-Gesamtausgabe, that Schiedermair had initiated.[2] He edited piano works, in collaboration with his son Hans Schmidt. He also began the publications of the Beethoven House.[1]
Schmidt-Görg died in Bad Neuenahr at the age of 84.[1][3]
Books
- Das rheinische Volkslied, Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1934
- Katalog der Handschriften des Beethoven-Hauses und des Beethoven-Archivs Bonn, Bonn 1935
- Nicolas Gombart, Kapellmeister Kaiser Karls V. Leben und Werk, Bonn: Röhrscheid, 1938
- Beethoven. Die Geschichte seiner Familie, Munich: Henle 1964
- Des Bonner Bäckermeisters Gottfried Fischer Aufzeichnungen über Beethovens Jugend, Munich: Henle, 1971
- Beethoven, as editor with Hans Schmidt[4]
- Musik der Gotik, Bonn: Schwippert, 1946
Articles
- "Beethoven und das kurkölnische Geistesleben", in Allgemeine Musikzeitung, vol. 54 (1927), pp. 549f.
- "Zur Musikanschauung in den Schriften der hl. Hildegard", in Der Mensch und die Künste. Festschrift für Heinrich Lützeler zum 60. Geburtstag, Düsseldorf 1962, pp. 230–237
- "Ein Schiller-Zitat Beethovens in neuer Sicht", in Musik, Edition, Interpretation. Gedenkschrift Günther Henle, Munich 1980, pp. 423–426
