Schiedermair, Ludwig
Schiedermair, Ludwig
Schiedermair, Ludwig, eminent German musicologist; b. Regensburg, Dec. 7, 1876; d. Bensberg, near Cologne, April 30, 1957. He studied in Munich with Sandberger and Beer-Walbrunn, and received his Ph.D. at the Univ. of Erlangen in 1901 with the diss. Die Künstlerische Bestrebungen am Hofe des Kurfürsten Ferdinand Maria von Bayern; studied further with Riemann at the Univ. of Leipzig and with Kretzschmar at the Univ. of Berlin; completed his Habilitation in 1906 at the Univ. of Marburg with his Simon Mayr: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Oper um die Wende des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts (publ. in Leipzig, 1907–10), where he then taught (1906–11); then went to the Univ. of Bonn (1911), where he was a reader (1915–20) and a prof. (1920–45). He was founder-director of the Beethoven Archives in Bonn; was made president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft (1937) and chairman of the music section of the Deutsche Akademie (1940). A Festschrift was publ, in honor of his 60th (Berlin, 1937) and 80th (Cologne, 1956) birthdays.
Writings
Gustav Mahler (Leipzig, 1901); Bayreuther Festspiele im Zeitalter des Absolutismus (Leipzig, 1908); Die Briefe Mozarts und seiner Familie (5 vols., Munich, 1914; vol. 5 is an iconography); W.A. Mozarts Handschrift (Bückeburg, 1919; facsimiles); Einführung in das Studium der Musikgeschichte (Munich, 1918; new ed., Bonn, 1947); Mozart (Munich, 1922; second ed., Bonn, 1948); Der junge Beethoven (Leipzig, 1925; fourth ed., 1970); Beethoven: Beiträge zum Leben und Schaffen (Leipzig, 1930; third ed., 1943); Die deutsche Oper (Leipzig, 1930); Die Gestaltung weltanschaulicher Ideen in der Vokalmusik Beethovens (Leipzig, 1934); Musik am Rheinstron (Cologne, 1947); Musikalische Begegnungen; Erlebnis und Erinnerung (Cologne, 1948); Deutsche Musik im Europäischen Raum (Münster, 1954).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire