Ludwig Ferdinand Schiedermair (1876 – 1957 ) was a
German minister and musicologist. He concerned himself
with opera history, Mozart, and Beethoven. In 1914 he
edited the first complete critical edition of the
letters of Mozart and his family.
After studying musicology in Munich and habilitation as
a docent in Marburg he became a professor at the
University of Bonn from 1920 to 1945. As department
head for music history he founded the Beethoven Archive
at the Beethoven House, Bonn, o...(+)
Ludwig Ferdinand Schiedermair (1876 – 1957 ) was a
German minister and musicologist. He concerned himself
with opera history, Mozart, and Beethoven. In 1914 he
edited the first complete critical edition of the
letters of Mozart and his family.
After studying musicology in Munich and habilitation as
a docent in Marburg he became a professor at the
University of Bonn from 1920 to 1945. As department
head for music history he founded the Beethoven Archive
at the Beethoven House, Bonn, on 26 March 1927 (the
100th anniversary of Beethoven's death) and served as
its first director until 1945. He also founded the
Institute for Musicology at the University of Bonn –
the first such institute at a German school for higher
education. He also served on the committee to found the
Max Reger Institute which he led until 1953.
After the rise of the Nazi Party, he published his work
The complete world view ideas in the Volk's music of
Beethoven in 1934. From 1937 to 1939 he served as
president of the German Society for Musicology, and in
this position gave the musicological address of the
Reichsmusiktage on 27 May 1938, a work of propaganda
famous for its exhibition of "Degenerate music." In
1936 he earned the Cultural Prize of Bonn and the
Beethoven Medal of Bonn, and in 1948 he won the Golden
Medal of the Salzburg Mozarteum. In the Second World
War, he worked for the Reichsleiter Rosenberg
Taskforce.
He retired in 1945 and in 1952 became an honored member
of the Academy for Music Research.
Although this work was originally written for Chorus, I
created this arrangement for Pipe Organ.
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