Federhofer, Hellmut

Federhofer, Hellmut, eminent Austrian musicologist; b. Graz, Aug. 6, 1911. He studied piano and theory in Graz, and then continued his studies at the Vienna Academy of Music with Stohr and Kabasta, graduating in 1936 with a diploma in conducting. He also took private lessons in composition with Berg, Sauer, and Jonas. He took courses in musicology with Orel and Lach at the Univ. of Vienna, receiving his Ph.D. in 1936 with the diss. Akkordik und Harmonik in fruhen Motetten der Trienter Codices. From 1937 to 1944 he was State Librarian. He completed his Habilitation in 1944 at the Univ. of Graz with his Musikalische Form als Ganzheit (publ. as Beitr’dge zur musikalischen Gestaltanalyse, Graz, 1950). He became Privatdozent at the Univ. of Graz in 1945, and in 1951 prof, of musicology. In 1962 he became director of the Musicological Inst. at the Johannes Gutenberg Univ. in Mainz. That same year he became ed. of Ada Musicologica. In 1986 he became editorial director of the new critical ed. of the works of Fux. His books include Musikpflege und Musiker am Grazer Habsburgerhof der Erzherzoge Karl und Ferdinand von Inner osterreich (1564–1619; Mainz, 1967), Neue Musik: Ein Literaturbericht (Tutzing, 1977), Akkord und Stimmfuhrung in den Musiktheoretischen Systemen von Hugo Riemann, Ernst Kurth und Heinrich Schenker (Vienna, 1981), Musikwissen-

schaft und Musikpraxis (Vienna, 1985), and Motivtechnik von Johannes Brahms und Arnold Schonbergs Dodekaphonie (Vienna, 1989). He also ed. Heinrich Schenker als Essayist und Kritiker: Gesammelte Aufsatze, Rezensionen und kleine Berichte aus den Jahren 1891–1901 (Hildesheim, 1990).

Bibliography

C.-H. Mahling, ed., Florilegium Musicologicum: H. F. zum 75. Geburtstag (Tutzing, 1988).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire