Korte, Werner

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Korte, Werner

Korte, Werner, German musicologist; b. Münster, May 29, 1906; d. there, Nov. 26, 1982. He studied mathematics, natural sciences, and musicology at the univs. of Freiburg im Breisgau and Münster (1924–26), then took courses in musicology, art history, and philosophy at the Univ. of Berlin (1926–28), where his principal mentor was Wolf (Ph.D., 1928, with the diss. Die Harmonik des frühen 15. Jahrhunderts in ihrem Zusammenhang mit der Formtechnik’, publ. in Münster, 1929). He completed his Habilitation in 1932 at the Univ. of Munster with his Studien zur Geschichte der Musik in Italien im ersten Viertel des 15. Jahrhunderts (publ. in Kassel, 1933). He was an asst. lecturer in musicology at the Univ. of Heidelberg (1928–31), then became director of the musicology dept. at the Univ. of Münster (1932), where he was made reader (1937) and prof. (1946).

Writings

Deutsche Musikerziehung in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart (Danzig, 1932); J.S. Bach (Berlin, 1935); Ludwig van Beethoven (Berlin, 1936); Robert Schumann (Potsdam, 1937);Musik und Weltbild (Leipzig, 1940); Händel und der deutsche Geist (Leipzig, 1942); Bruckner und Brahms: Die spätromantische Lösung der autonomen Konzeption (Tutzing, 1963); De musica: Monolog über die heutige Situation der Musik (Tutzing, 1966).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire