Jöde, (Wilhelm August Ferdinand) Fritz

Jöde, (Wilhelm August Ferdinand) Fritz, prominent German music educator; b. Hamburg, Aug. 2, 1887; d. there, Oct. 19, 1970. He studied at the Hamburg teachers’s training college and then began his career as a provincial school teacher. After service in the German army during World War I, he studied musicology with Abert at the Univ. of Leipzig (1920-21). In 1923 he was made prof, of choral conducting and folk music education at Berlin’s Staatliche Akademie für Kirchen-und Schulmusik. He organized societies for the propagation of folk music, and was very active in various youth movements in Germany until the Nazis removed him from his positions in 1935. He joined the faculty of the Salzburg Mozarteum in 1939, but was compelled to give up that position as well in 1943. After the fall of the Third Reich, he resumed his various activities; was made director of the youth music program of Hamburg’s Hochschule für Musik (1947) and also director of the Internationales Institut für Jugend- und Volksmusik. He edited several periodicals and many song collections.

Writings

Ed. Musikalische Jugendkultur (Hamburg, 1918); Musik und Erziehung (Wolfenbüttel, 1919); Pädagogik deines Wesens (Hamburg, 1920); Musikmanifest (Rudolstadt, 1921); Die Lebensfragen der neuen Schule (Hamburg, 1921); Unser Musikleben (Wolfenbüttel, 1923; 2^nd ed., 1925); Musikschulen f¨r Jugend und Volk (Wolfenbüttel, 1924; 2^nd ed., 1928); Das schaffende Kind in der Musik (Wolfenbüttel, 1928; 2^nd ed., 1962); ed. Musik in der Volksschule (Berlin, 1928); Kind und Musik (Berlin, 1930; reprint, 1966); Vom Wesen und Werden der Jugendmusik (Mainz, 1954); Die Herzberger Bachwochen (Trossingen and Wolfenbüttel, 1959).

Bibliography

R. Stapelberg, F.J.: Leben und Werk (Trossingen and Wolfenbüttel, 1957); G. Trautner, Die Musikerziehung bei F.j.; Quellen und Grundlagen (Wolfenbüttel, 1968).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire