Joseph Schmidt-Görg

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.

Joseph Schmidt-Görg
Born
Joseph Schmidt

(1897-03-19)19 March 1897
Rüdinghausen
Died3 April 1981(1981-04-03) (aged 84)
Bad Neuenahr
EducationUniversity of Bonn
Occupation
  • Musicologist
  • Composer
  • Music editor
Organization

Life

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]

Beethoven House in Bonn

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 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 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, Jg. 54 (1927), p. 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

Further reading
  • Thomas Phleps: Ein stiller, verbissener und zäher Kampf um Stetigkeit – Musikwissenschaft in NS-Deutschland und ihre vergangenheitspolitische Bewältigung, in Isolde v. Foerster et al. (ed.), Musikforschung – Nationalsozialismus – Faschismus, Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488.
  • Festschrift Joseph Schmidt-Görg zum 60. Geburtstag, edited bu Dagmar Weise, Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 1957
  • Colloquium amicorum. Joseph Schmidt-Görg zum 70. Geburtstag.[5] edited by Siegfried Kross und Hans Schmidt, Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 1967
  • Sieghard Brandenburg, Sammeln und Bewahren – Edieren und Auswerten. Aus der Gründungszeit des Beethoven-Archivs, in Bonner Beethoven-Studien, Vol. 5 (2006), pp. 71–93

References
  1. "Prof. Dr. Joseph Schmidt-Görg". Diocese of Cologne (in German). Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  2. Siegert, Christine (2018). "Das Beethoven-Archiv und seine Gesamtausgaben:Konzepte und Projekte 1927 bis 1961" (PDF). Schott Music (in German). Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  3. Kopf, Oliver. "Schmidt-Görg, Joseph". Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (in German). Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  4. "Review: Beethoven. Biography of a Genius by George R. Marek; Ludwig van Beethoven by Joseph Schmidt-Görg, Hans Schmidt; Beethoven. The Last Decade, 1817-1827 by Martin Cooper; The Authentic English Editions of Beethoven by Alan Tyson". Journal of the American Musicological Society. University of California Press. 1970. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  5. Colloquium amicorum. Joseph Schmidt-Görg zum 70. Geburtstag. on WorldCat
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