Haas, Robert (Maria)

Haas, Robert (Maria), distinguished Austrian musicologist; b. Prague, Aug. 15, 1886; d. Vienna, Oct. 4, 1960. He received his primary education in Prague, then studied music history at the univs. of Prague, Berlin, and Vienna, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1908 from the Univ. of Prague with his diss. Das Wiener Singspiel.He then was an assistant to Guido Adler at the Inst. for Music History in Vienna (1908–09). During World War I he was in the Austrian army; then joined the staff of the Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, becoming chief of the music division in 1920. He completed his Habilitation at the Univ. of Vienna in 1923 with his Eberlins Schuldramen und Oratorien, and then became a lecturer there. He also devoted much of his time to the music of the Baroque and Classical eras. After the founding of the International Bruckner Soc, he became ed. of the critical edition of Bruckner’s works; he also edited works for Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich. He retired in 1945.

Writings

Gluck und Durazzo im Burgtheater (Vienna, 1925); Die estensischen Musikalien: Thematisches Verzeichnis mit Einleitung (Regensburg, 1925); Die Wiener Oper (Vienna, 1926); Wiener Musiker vor und um Beethoven (Vienna, 1927); Die Musik des Barocks (Potsdam, 1928); Aufführungspraxis der Musik (Potsdam, 1931); W. A. Mozart (Potsdam, 1933; 2^nd ed., 1950); Anton Bruckner (Potsdam, 1934); Bach und Mozart in Wien (Vienna, 1951); Ein unbekanntes Mozart-Bildnis (Vienna, 1955).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire