Kurt Gudewill

Pictorial material and an overview of the military career of his elder corvette captain, Lieutenant Colonel Max Hans August Gudewill (born in 1865) are handed down in the photo collection of the officers of the XIV Corps (German Empire) of the department Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe of the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg.

So was his uncle, Corvette Captain Hans Gudewill (1866-1904), commander of the German gunboat SMS Habicht and temporary commander of the Schutztruppen in German East Africa.

As the son of Major Curt Caspar Adolf Gudewill (1868-1914), who was a departmental commander of the field artillery regiment during the first month of World War I and was wounded in the battle of Tienen in Belgium and died four days later, and his wife Margaretha Louise Auguste (1875-1953), née Luther, 1911 in Itzehoe, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, he became the "Luther Side relatives" counted.

Gudewill received his first musical and practical lessons and passed a state private music teacher examination in music theory and musical composition in Itzehoe.

As his first music teacher he named Thiel's and Richard Hage's student Heinrich Laubach, who was the founder of the Itzehoe Concert Choir.

Furthermore, according to his own statement, his successor, Otto Spreckelsen, exerted musical influence on him.

Kurt Gudewill (3 February 1911 – 29 July 1995) was a German musicologist and University lecturer.

Gudewill attended the Kaiser-Karl-Schule (Itzehoe), a reform Realgymnasium in his home town until the Abitur 1929

From 1929 to 1935 Gudewill studied musicology as well as philosophy and phonetics at the University of Hamburg (among others with Walther Vetter and Wilhelm Heinitz) and 1930/31 at the Humboldt University of Berlin (among others with Arnold Schering, Friedrich Blume and Hans Joachim Moser).

166.492 of the NSDAP from November 1, 1929 to October 1, 1930 (see Alter Kämpfer) and again from May 1, 1937 (No. 4,782,103).

The working group continued the "Working Group for New Music" initiated by Hans Hoffmann in 1929, which saw itself as alternative to the absence of a local group of the International Society for New Music.

He belonged to the SA (from 1933), the Hitler Youth (from 1940) and the NS-Dozentenbund (from 1942).

Through the mediation of a musician colleague of the Semler Chapel in Itzehoe, the military music enthusiastic Gudewill successfully applied around 1933/34 on the place of the second tenor horn in the music course of the Heider SA standard 85 "Dithmarschen".

In 1935 he was appointed by Walther Vetter in (historical) musicology at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation entitled Das sprachliche Urbild bei Heinrich Schütz und seine Abwandlung nach textbestimmten und musikalischen Gestaltungsgrundsätzen in den Werken bis 1650 to Dr. phil. promoted.

The second opinion of the work took over Georg Anschütz.

The work was published in 1936 at Bärenreiter-Verlag in Kassel.

In the same year he became a research assistant by Friedrich Blume and a regular lecturer for music at the Musicological Institute in Kiel.

During the Kristallnacht (1938) his was decisively involved in the destruction of the synagogue in Friedrichstadt.

Das Machwerk Lexikon der Juden in der Musik, a publication of the Institute for Study of the Jewish Question of 1940, Gudewill commented favourably in a review.

After the war, he justified his entry into the SA by saying that it was necessary for his professional advancement.

In 1944 he habilitated and applied to the Musicological Institute of the Philosophical Faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel on the topic ''Die Formstrukturen der deutschen Liedtenores des 15.

und 16.

Even before the end of the war, in January 1945, he received a Privatdozent (a lecture catalogue did not appear in the summer semester 1945 though).

Gudewill war member Nr.

From the summer semester 1946 Gudewill was again listed as part of the Kiel teaching staff in the "Personal- und Vorlesungsverzeichnis".

Excerpts from his work were presented in the first volume (1948) of the journal Die Musikforschung under the title Zur Frage der Formstrukturen deutscher Liedtenores.

In 1948/49 he was a scholarship holder of the British Council.

Guest lecturer at the University of Birmingham in England.

From 1952 to 1976 he was professor at the musicological institute of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.

He rendered outstanding services to Heinrich Schütz and Lied research.

Born in Itzehoe, Gudewill came from a Prussian officer family.

In 1952 he received an extraordinary professorship in Kiel while retaining his music lecturing position, and from 1960 to 1976 he was scientific counselor and Professor of musicology.

He supervised several doctoral projects (Wulf Konold, Karl-Heinz Reinfandt, Bernd Sponheuer among others) and a music-making circle for early music.

In 1957 Gutewill reactivated the Arbeitskreis für Neue Musik, which he led until 1991.

In 1959 he was accepted into the student working groups of the Studentenwerk Schleswig-Holstein.

2003/07 Friedrich Wedell at the Musicological Institute of the University of Kiel revived the network as Forum for Contemporary Music.

The musicologist Fred K. Prieberg (2009) questioned Gudewill's self-assessment and criticized his silence about re-entering the party.

Jahrhunderts.'' (The Form Structures of German Lied Tenors of the 15th and 16th Century).

The main focus of his work was historical research on 17th century Lutheran church music, especially on the composers Heinrich Schütz and Melchior Franck, as well as on 16th century German Lied.

Thus he had a significant part in the fact that the musical genre "tenor song" could assert itself as term techicus.