Netti, Paul
Netti, Paul
Netti, Paul, eminent Czech-born American musicologist, father of Bruno Netti; b. Hohenelbe, Bohemia, Jan. 10, 1889; d. Bloomington, Ind., Jan. 8, 1972. He studied jurisprudence (Jur.D., 1913) and musicology (Ph.D., 1915) at the German Univ. of Prague, where from 1920 to 1937 he was on the faculty. In 1939 he emigrated to the U.S., becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1945. After teaching at Westminster Choir Coll. and in N.Y. and Philadelphia, he was a prof. of musicology at Indiana Univ. in Bloomington (1946–59); remained a part-time teacher there until 1963.
Writings
Vom Ursprung der Musik (Prague, 1918); Alte jüdische Spielleute und Musiker (Prague, 1923); Musik und Tanz bei Casanova (Prague, 1924); Musik-Barock in Böhmen und Mähren (Brunn, 1927); Der Prager Kaufruf (Prague, 1930); Das Wiener Lied im Zeitalter des Barock (Vienna, 1934); Mozart in Böhmen, after Prochazka’s Mozart in Prag (Prague, 1938); The Story of Dance Music (N.Y., 1947); The Book of Musical Documents (N.Y., 1948); Luther and Music (N.Y., 1948); Casanova und seine Zeit (Esslingen, 1949); Goethe und Mozart: Eine Betrachtung (Esslingen, 1949); The Other Casanova (N.Y., 1950); Forgotten Musicians (N.Y, 1951); National Anthems (N.Y, 1952; 2nd ed., enl., 1967); Beethoven Encyclopedia (N.Y, 1956; 2nd ed., rev., 1967, as Beethoven Handbook); Mozart and Masonry (N.Y, 1957); Beethoven und seine Zeit (Frankfurt am Main, 1958); Georg Friedrich Handel (Berlin, 1958); Mozart und der Tanz (1960); The Dance in Classical Music (N.Y, 1963); R. Daniel, ed., P.N.: Selected Essays (Bloomington, 1975).
Bibliography
T. Atcherson, Ein Musikwissenschaftler in zwei Welten: Die musikwissenschaftlen und literarischen Arbeiten von P. N.(Vienna, 1962).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis Mclntire