Willi Kahl Explained

Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Willi Kahl (18 July 1893 – 3 October 1962) was a German musicologist.

Life

Born in Saverne ([Alsace], from 1911 Kahl studied musicology, classical philology and German literature in Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Bonn. One of his teachers was Ludwig Schiedermair. He also completed training in music theory and piano. From 1914 to 1919 he served in the army and took part in World War I. In 1919 he received his doctorate under Schiedermair in Bonn with the work Das lyrische Klavierstück zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts und seine Vorgeschichte im 17./18. Jahrhundert (The lyrical piano piece at the beginning of the 19th century and its prehistory in the 17th/18th century). Afterwards he worked as a music critic for the . In 1923 he habilitated with his dissertation Studien zur Geschichte der Klaviermusik des 18. Jahrhunderts (Studies on the history of piano music of the 18th century) and joined the library service in the same year. In 1928 he became library councillor at the and at the same time received an extraordinary professorship at the University of Cologne. He retired in 1958 and died in Cologne at the age of 69.

The focal points of his academic work are the history of piano music, Schubert research, as well as the music history of the Rhineland and the music bibliography.

Kahl had been married to Katharina Maria Elisabeth Poppelreuter since 1923. He died at the age of 69 in a Cologne hospital.

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/73006007 Das lyrische Klavierstück Schuberts und seiner Vorgänger seit 1810.
  2. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898797060 Verzeichnis des Schrifttums über Franz Schubert 1828–1928
  3. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/749382 Selbstbiographien deutscher Musiker des 18. Jahrhunderts.
  4. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5548129016 Frühe Lehrwerke für das Hammerklavier.
  5. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44846167 Studien zur Kölner Musikgeschichte des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (Universität-Tricoronatum)
  6. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5548142073 Das Nürnberger historische Konzert von 1643 und sein Geschichtsbild.
  7. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/250889033 Bilder und Gestalten aus der Musikgeschichte des Rheinlandes.
  8. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/611022685 Ein stiller, verbissener und zäher Kampf um Stetigkeit – Musikwissenschaft in NS-Deutschland und ihre vergangenheitspolitische Bewältigung.