Ehmann, Wilhelm
Ehmann, Wilhelm
Ehmann, Wilhelm, German musicologist; b. Freistatt, Dec. 5, 1904; d. Freiburg im Breisgau, April 16, 1989. He studied musicology at the univs. of Freiburg and Leipzig; received his Ph.D. in 1934 with the diss. Adam von Fulda als Vertreter der ersten deutschen Komponisten-Generation (publ. in Berlin, 1936) from the Univ. of Freiburg; completed his Habilitation there with his Der Thibaut-Behaghel-Kreis in 1937. From 1934 to 1940 he was on the faculty of the Univ. of Freiburg; from 1940 to 1945 he taught at the Univ. of Innsbruck. In 1948 he founded and became director of the church-music school in Westphalia (later named the Hochschule fur Kirchenmusik); he retired in 1972. He also taught at the Univ. of Munster (1948–54).
Writings
Die Chorfthrung (2 vols., Kassel, 1949; 3rd ed., 1956; vol. II, in Eng., Minneapolis, 1936); Tibilustrium: Das geistliche Blasen, Formen und Reformen (Kassel, 1950); Erziehung zur Kirchenmusik (Giitersloh, 1951); Erbe und Auftrag musikalischer Erneuerung: Entromantisierung der Singbewegung (Kassel, 1951); /. S. Bach in unserem Leben (Wolfenbiittel, 1952); Das Chorwesen in der Kulturkrise (Regensburg, 1953); Kirchenmusik, Vermachtnis und Aufgabe (Darmstadt, 1958); Alte Musik in der neuen Welt (Darmstadt, 1961); Der Blaserchor: Besinnung und Aufgabe (Kassel, 1969).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire