Werner Danckert Explained

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 .[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

Notes and References

  1. [Ernst Klee]
  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,
  3. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/474993768 Geschichte der Gigue
  4. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215143041 Ursymbole melodischer Gestaltung
  5. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/558849650 Beiträge zur Bachkritik. [With musical illustrations.] on WorldCat
  6. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/459042213 Grundriss der Volksliedkunde
  7. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733595026 Das Europäische Volkslied
  8. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/878296133 Goethe, der mystische Urgrund seiner Weltschau
  9. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/906351097 Offenes und geschlossenes Leben, zwei Daseinsaspekte in Goethes Weltschau
  10. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715640526 Unehrliche Leute. Die verfemten Berufe
  11. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/877921087 Das Volkslied im Abendland
  12. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/906125571 Tonreich und Symbolzahl in Hochkulturen und Primitivenwelt
  13. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/470659271 Musik und Weltbild : Morphologie der abendländischen Musik