- Source: Werner Danckert
Werner Danckert (22 June 1900 – 5 March 1970) was a German folk song researcher.
Life
Born in Erfurt, Danckert trained as a concert pianist after graduating from high school in 1917. He studied musicology with the subsidiary subjects philosophy and physics. In 1923 he received his doctorate in Erlangen (summa cum laude); the habilitation followed at the University of Jena in 1926.
In 1937 Danckert became a member of the NSDAP and professor at the Musikhochschule Weimar. Danckert became a member of the Hauptstelle Musik at the Amt Rosenberg. At the Reichsmusiktage in Düsseldorf (1938). Danckert gave a lecture on Volkstum, Stammesart, Rasse im Lichte der Volkstumsforschung. In 1939 he published the book Die ältesten Spuren germanischer Volksmusik. In 1943 he was given a chair in Graz and an apl. professorship in Berlin as successor of Herbert Birtner.
After the end of the Second World War he did not return to any university, but published further books on folk music and other musical topics.
Danckert died in Krefeld at age 69.
Publications
Geschichte der Gigue, Leipzig 1924
Ursymbole melodischer Gestaltung, Kassel 1932
Beiträge zur Bachkritik, Kassel 1934
Grundriss der Volksliedkunde, Berlin 1939
Das Europäische Volkslied, Berlin 1939, dto, 2. improved and extended edition Bonn 1970
Claude Debussy, Berlin 1950
Goethe, der mystische Urgrund seiner Weltschau, Berlin 1951
Offenes und geschlossenes Leben, zwei Daseinsaspekte in Goethes Weltschau, Bonn 1963
Unehrliche Leute. Die verfemten Berufe, Bern and Munich 1963
Das Volkslied im Abendland, Bern and Munich 1960
Tonreich und Symbolzahl in Hochkulturen und Primitivenwelt, Bonn 1966
Symbol, Metapher und Allegorie im Lied der Völker, four volumes, issued from the estate of Hannelore Vogel, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1976–78
Musik und Weltbild,
= Discontinued volumes
=Bach und Händel
Musik und Musikstile Polynesiens
Studien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte ostasiatischer Musik
Musik im indopazifischen Raum
Musikwissenschaft und Kulturkreislehre
References
External links
Literature by and about Werner Danckert in the German National Library catalogue