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Erich Schenk

January 07, 2023

Erich Schenk (5 May 1902 – 11 October 1974) was an Austrian musicologist and music historian.

Tomb of Erich and Margaretha Eleonore Schenk at the Salzburger Kommunalfriedhof [de].

Personal and scientific life

Born in Salzburg (Austria-Hungary), Schenk studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum and then at the University of Munich, where he also received his doctorate in 1925.[1] His habilitation followed in 1930 at the University of Rostock,[1] and four years later he founded the Musicological Institute at that institution in 1934.[2] He remained director of Musicological Institute through 1940.[1]

After the retirement of Robert Lach in 1940, Schenk followed him as full professor at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna. He was able to hold on even after the end of the National Socialist regime and was accepted into the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1946. In 1950 he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and in 1957 he was finally appointed Rector of the University of Vienna.

He gained his reputation as a musicologist as editor of the musicological series Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich (DTÖ)[3] and through his research on Viennese classical music and Baroque music.[4] Schenk received numerous honours for his services to musicological research, including the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria in 1952. He also received honorary doctorate from the universities of Brno and Rostock. In 1966 he received the Wilhelm Hartel Prize [de], in 1970 the Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art, until he retired in 1971. Since 2003 the Mozart Society of Vienna has been awarding a new prize to young musicians under the name "Erich-Schenk-Preis [de]".[5] This was decreed in her will by the musicologist's widow and replaces the interpretation prize previously awarded by the City of Vienna.

Schenk died in Vienna at age 72. His burial place is at the Salzburger Kommunalfriedhof [de].

Anti-Semitism of Erich Schenk

It is undisputed that Schenk had a pronounced anti-Semitic attitude from the beginning of the 1930s and did not correct this until his death. This can be proven several times. For example, Schenk, a member of the National Socialist Teachers League[6] then of the National Socialist German Lecturers League, as lecturer and temporary employee for the Amt Rosenberg activities by providing information about former Jewish students of musicology[6] and worked closely with Herbert Gerigk and his Lexikon der Juden in der Musik.[7] Gerigk thanked Schenk warmly: "A close examination of the Viennese doctoral candidates [sic!] would probably reveal some more fat Jews" [8] Schenk had been exempted from military service because of his collaboration in Rosenberg's "Sonderstab Musik" and also contributed to Rosenberg's journal Musik im Kriege [de].[9]

In the biography of Johann Strauss II, published in 1940, which continues to be of great importance to Strauss research in musicological terms, every single Jew is meticulously identified and research findings on the proven pathologies of Johann Strauss are dismissed by Ernst Décsey (and which are undoubtedly based on the statements of Strauss' third wife Adele) as "autocratic interpretation" and "journalistic eloquence", which did not appear in Strauss's life picture, "[...] until after the World War the Jew Decsey set out to underpin it in terms of local and contemporary history [...]".[10]

Donation and expropriation of the Adler Library

A particularly inglorious chapter in Schenk's biography is his role in the expropriation of musicologist Guido Adler's private library after his death in 1941, which is presented here in detail because it is stereotypical for the behavior of National Socialist musicologists during National Socialism. For decades, Schenk deceived the public by claiming, in the article he wrote about himself in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, that he was the "Library before the access of the Nazi authorities".[11] It was not until 2000, when a manuscript of Gustav Mahler, which was part of the library, was to be auctioned at Sotheby's in Vienna, that the "Causa Schenk-Adler-Bibliothek" was examined more closely.

The librarian Yukiko Sakabe has 2004[12] and 2007[13] the state of knowledge is summarized. She speaks of the "confiscation of Guido Adler's library with the participation of university professor Erich Schenk":[13] "Immediately after Guido Adler's death, Schenk began to claim the library and also Adler's scientific estate for himself and for the Institute. Schenk informed the Reich Ministry of Science, Education and National Education in Berlin in a report dated 31 March 1941 about his unauthorized seizure of the library.

The expropriation took place in several steps:

  • After Schenk's "unauthorized seizure of the library", the Director General of the National Library Paul Heigl [de] opposes in a letter dated 5 May 1941: "Although I do not wish to ignore the reasons given in your above-mentioned report, I consider a loyal division of the holdings between the Vienna National Library and your institute to be appropriate, especially with regard to the manuscripts, first prints and other unica that may be held in the Library Guido Israel Adler. You therefore wish to consult the Director General of the Vienna National Library about such a division. Signed on behalf of Frey".
  • On 6 May and 9 June 1941, a tour of Adler's Library takes place in the presence of two university professors, Leopold Nowak and Robert Haas. Nowak was Schenk's assistant at the time. Haas headed the music collection of the Austrian National Library from 1920 to 1945. Melanie Adler[14] writes: "The visit on Tuesday was forced on me by the lawyer [Richard Heiserer, the one who stole the Mahler manuscript, he was commissioned by Schenk], who in my absence took possession of the key to the library. He threatened to go to the Gestapo to intimidate me and play the matter into the hands of the others." On 9 June 1941, Karl Borufka and Christian Nebehay from the antiquarian bookstore Heck were present as experts. "Some objects were not on their list. For example, the manuscript of Gustav Mahler's song I am lost to the world, another one by Arthur Schnitzler and a death mask by Ludwig van Beethoven. In a report Schenks submitted to the Lower Austrian Financial Directorate after the war, it is stated that some mobile holdings, including the death mask of Beethoven, were lost after a bombing attack on Liebiggasse or after fighting in April 1945 at the Musicological Institute. Hall and Köstner maintain that Schenk would have taken over the death mask before Borufka made his estimate."[13]
  • "Shortly after the second viewing Melanie Adler terminated her lawyer Richard Heiserer. Now lawyer Johann Kellner should represent Melanie. Melanie Adler tried to sell her father's library to the Munich City Library. On August 6, 1941 she wrote to Rudolf von Ficker: 'The day before yesterday the lawyer [...] spent a whole morning at the Gestapo. The Gestapo wants the library and the apartment for free'"[13]
  • In October 1945, von Ficker wrote in a memorandum on the confiscation of the Adler Library: "During a visit to the musicology seminar on 8 May [1942], I happened to witness how the Adler Library was being unloaded and piled up there, along with all the personal documents and accessories. Prof. Schenk, whom I did not know before, told me for clarification that Ms. Adler had behaved very stupidly, she had violated the law because she had protested against the confiscation of the library by the Gestapo. She had fled, but had already been found by the Gestapo and then it was: "March, to Poland!'"[15] Adler's daughter, Melanie Adler was deported on 20 May 1942 and murdered on 26 May 1942 in the Maly Trostinets extermination camp.[16]
  • Several institutes were interested in acquiring the estate: e.g. the National Library and the collections of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in manuscripts and unicums, the Städtische Sammlung der Stadt Wien an der Wiener Musik, the Reichshochschule für Musik from the point of view of increasing its library, the Kulturamt der Stadt Wien (today the library of the Musikschule der Stadt Wien), the Musikwissenschaftliche Institut der Universität Wien, and the Generalreferat für Kunstförderung in the theatre studies holdings for the archive. "On May 12, 1942 the joint inspection and discussion of the division of the collection took place. Schenk justified his claim to Adler's library by saying that Guido Adler had stolen the books during his teaching activities. Approximately three quarters of the available book material was to be considered the property of the Musicological Institute. However, according to the inventory, there was no proof of a claim of ownership by the university."
  • In 1943 a part of the books and sheet music from Adler's library was transferred from the Musicological Institute to the various Viennese institutions. Finally, parts of Adler's library had to be ceded to the following institutions by order of the Reichsgau Vienna: Vienna University Library, Library of the University of Music and Performing Arts, Library of the Society of Friends of Music and Music Department of the National Library.
  • Later the divided library was returned to Adler's son Hubert-Joachim, who sold it to the University of Georgia.[17]

Legal proceedings against Schenk

A complaint against Schenk was only filed with the American occupying power after the war. At that time, Section Chief Otto Skrbensky in the Ministry of Education was in charge of the investigation. He denied all charges against Schenk. With regard to the confiscation of Adler's library, he said: "in itself, probably not against Professor Schenk, since it is in the interest of Austria that this library be preserved for our fatherland".[18] The expropriation, as an act of public welfare, seemed to Skrbensky unquestionably an appropriate measure. On 30 June 1952, Federal Minister Ernst Kolb wrote to Schenk: "After a thorough examination of the events at the time, the Federal Ministry recognized these accusations as incorrect and determined your correct behavior when the library was taken over by the musicological institute of the university in the sense of securing your assets".[19]

After the Second World War

As Gösta Neuwirth In the early sixties, when he began work on Franz Schreker, he was dispatched by the Viennese Ordinary: "I don't associate myself with Jews".[20] A case against Schenk initiated for this purpose was discontinued in 1967 without result.

To the geschichtsklitternden Schenk's conduct also includes the fact that he verifiably corrected and re-coloured his writings written during National Socialism on the occasion of the new edition of his Selected Essays, Speeches and Lectures.[21]

Publications

  • Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli [de]. Sein Leben und seine Werke. Nebst Beiträgen zur Musikgeschichte Bayreuths. Dissertation 1925, München. Waldheim-Eberle, Wien 1928.
  • Johann Strauss II, in der Reihe Herbert Gerigk (Hg) Unsterbliche Tonkunst [de], Athenaion, Potsdam 1940.
  • Das Ahnenerbe, in W. A. Mozart. Zur Mozart-Woche des Deutschen Reichs in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda und dem Reichsstatthalter in Wien, edited by Walther Thomas, Vienna 1941, pp. 16–22.
  • Mozart und der italienische Geist, in Geist der Zeit. Wesen und Gestalt der Völker, Organ des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes 19 (1941), pp. 580–590.
  • Musik in Kärnten, in Schriften zu den Klagenfurter Hochschulwochen, Klagenfurt 1941.
  • Organisationsformen deutscher Gemeinschaftsmusik, in Musikverein für Kärnten. Festschrift 1942, Klagenfurt [1942], pp. 58–63.
  • 950 Jahre Musik in Österreich. 1946.
  • Kleine Wiener Musikgeschichte. Neff, Vienna 1947.
  • W. A. Mozart. Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna among others 1955. (Neudruck Piper-Schott, Wien-München 1989. ISBN 3-7957-8268-6)
  • Die italienische Trio sonata. Das Musikwerk [de], Cologne 1955.
  • Mozart and His Times[22]
  • Ausgewählte Aufsätze, Reden und Vorträge (Wiener musikwissenschaftliche Beiträge 7), Graz 1967.
  • Die außeritalienische Triosonate. Das Musikwerk, Cologne 1970.

Editions

  • Franz Aspelmayr: Op. 1/4. Trio per due Violini e Basso continuo. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1954.
  • Giovanni Battista Bassani: Op. 5/9. Sonata a tre per due Violini e Basso continuo. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1955/56.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Mensa sonora seu musica instrumentalis, sonatis aliquot liberius sonantibus ad mensam(1680). (Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich 96) Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1960.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Fidicinium sacroprofanum, tam choro, quam foro pluribus fidibus concinnatum et concini aptum (1683). (Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich 97) Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1960.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Sonate tam aris quam aulis servientes (1676). (Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich 106/107) Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1963.
  • Tomaso Albinoni: Op. 8/4a. Sonata da chiesa a tre. Per 2 Vl., Vc. e B.c. Doblinger, Wienna and Munich 1975.

Further reading

  • Theophil Antonicek, Rudolf Flotzinger, Othmar Wessely (edits.): De ratione in musica. Festschrift Erich Schenk zum 5. Mai 1972. Mit Bibliographie. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1975, ISBN 3-7618-0420-2.
  • Gerhard Oberkofler: Orchideenfächer im Faschismus, in Jahrbuch des Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstands 1990, particularly pp. 45–49.
  • Eva Weissweiler: Ausgemerzt! Das Lexikon der Juden in der Musik und seine mörderischen Folgen. Dittrich, Köln 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2, pp. 28 f.., pp. 71 f..
  • Tom Adler: Lost to the World. Selbstverlag, o. O. 2000, ISBN 1-4010-8388-9. (Zur Geschichte des Mahler-Autographs "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen")
  • Matthias Pape: Erich Schenk – ein österreichischer Musikwissenschaftler in Salzburg, Rostock und Wien. Musikgeschichtsschreibung zwischen großdeutscher und kleinösterreichischer Staatsidee. In Die Musikforschung. 53. Jg. (2000), pp. 413–431
  • Michael Staudinger: Ein „vatermörderisches“ Projekt? Zur Geschichte der Wiener Musikwissenschaft von 1920–1960. In Dominik Schweiger, Michael Staudinger, Nikolaus Urbanek (edits.): Musik-Wissenschaft an ihren Grenzen. Manfred Angerer zum 50. Geburtstag. P. Lang, Frankfurt 2004, pp. 393–406
  • Fred K. Prieberg: Handbuch Deutsche Musiker 1933–1945. CD-ROM. Selbstverlag, Kiel 2004, pp. 6070–6072.
  • Murray G. Hall / Christina Köstner: „...allerlei für die Nationalbibliothek zu ergattern...“. Vienna: Böhlau 2006.
  • Uwe Harten: Schenk, Erich. In Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon. Online-edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5; Print edition: Volume 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, VIenna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5, pp. 2060 f..

External links

  • Literature by and about Erich Schenk in the German National Library catalogue
  • Erich Schenk on Universität Rostock
  • Michael Lisseks Radiofeature über die "Arisierung" der Bibliothek Guido Adlers und ihre Folgen: "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen…"
  • Michael Malkiewicz: Salzburg Journal - Nannerl Mozart and Erich Schenk

References

  1. ^ a b c Rudolf Klein, revised by Pamela M. Potter (2001). "Schenk, Erich". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.24799.
  2. ^ Dieter Härtwig Paisov (2001). "Rostock". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23917.
  3. ^ Carl Dahlhaus and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht: Brockhaus, Riemann Musiklexikon vol 4, 3. Edition, Schott Musik International, paperback edition 2001, ISBN 3-254-08399-7, p. 104.
  4. ^ Wien 1962, Webservice of the City of Vienna
  5. ^
  6. ^ a b Fred K. Prieberg since 2 August 1934: Handbuch Deutsche Musiker 1933-1945. Kiel 2004, CD-ROM encyclopedia, p. 6070.
  7. ^ Eva Weissweiler: Exterminated! The Lexikon der Juden in der Musik and its murderous consequences. Dittrich, Cologne 1999, p. 71f
  8. ^ Gerhard Scheit: The most German of the sciences: About the Sonderkommandos of German musicology. (MS Word; 30 kB) In: Konkret 8/2001 (retrieved on 2 September 2009)
  9. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5, p. 519.
  10. ^ Erich Schenk: Johann Strauss. In: Immortal musical art. life and creative images of great musicians. Edited by Herbert Gerigk, with the collaboration of Erich Schenk. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, Potsdam, 1940 p. 105 ff.
  11. ^ article Schenk, Erich, written by Erich Schenk and Theophil Antonicek, in Music in History and Present Volume 11, first edition 1963, p. 1664.
  12. ^ Yukiko Sakabe: Erich Schenk and the Case Eagle Library. In: Musicology on its borders, Frankfurt: Lang 2004, pp. 383–392.
  13. ^ a b c d Yukiko Sakabe: The library of Guido Adler. In: Mitteilungen der Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft, volume 2007 No. 1 (March), pp. 10–13 available as pdf
  14. ^ Portrait of Melanie Karoline Adler, student at the University of Innsbruck, see: [1], called on 27 August 2017.
  15. ^ Rudolf von Ficker: Memorandum, Igls near Innsbruck, on 29. October 29, 1945; in the Schenk legacy of the Archive of the Society of the Friends of Music Vienna and in the Wellesz legacy of the music collection of the Austrian National Library; quoted in full by Gerhard Oberkofler: Orchideenfächer im Faschismus, in: Jahrbuch des Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstandes 1990, pp. 45-49, here pp. 47-49. See also Renate Erhart: Melanie Karoline Adler (1888-1942) (retrieved on 13 February 2012)
  16. ^ Entry for Melanie Adler in The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
  17. ^ Staudinger: On the History of Musicology at the University of Vienna in the years 1938-1945. In Music in Vienna 1938-1945 (edited by Carmen Ottner). Vienna, 2006. p. 247.
  18. ^ Murray / Köstner, "...to get hold of all kinds of things for the National Library...", p. 297. Quoted after: Yukiko Sakabe: "The Library of Guido Adler". In: Mitteilungen der Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft, Volume 2007 No. 1, p. 12.
  19. ^ Archiv Musikfreunde, Schenk-Nachlass
  20. ^ music austria
  21. ^ see Pape: Erich Schenk, passim
  22. ^ Mozart and His Times on Google Books

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erich, schenk, 1902, october, 1974, austrian, musicologist, music, historian, tomb, erich, margaretha, eleonore, schenk, salzburger, kommunalfriedhof, contents, personal, scientific, life, anti, semitism, donation, expropriation, adler, library, legal, proceed. Erich Schenk 5 May 1902 11 October 1974 was an Austrian musicologist and music historian Tomb of Erich and Margaretha Eleonore Schenk at the Salzburger Kommunalfriedhof de Contents 1 Personal and scientific life 2 Anti Semitism of Erich Schenk 2 1 Donation and expropriation of the Adler Library 2 2 Legal proceedings against Schenk 2 3 After the Second World War 3 Publications 3 1 Editions 4 Further reading 5 External links 6 ReferencesPersonal and scientific life EditBorn in Salzburg Austria Hungary Schenk studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum and then at the University of Munich where he also received his doctorate in 1925 1 His habilitation followed in 1930 at the University of Rostock 1 and four years later he founded the Musicological Institute at that institution in 1934 2 He remained director of Musicological Institute through 1940 1 After the retirement of Robert Lach in 1940 Schenk followed him as full professor at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna He was able to hold on even after the end of the National Socialist regime and was accepted into the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1946 In 1950 he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and in 1957 he was finally appointed Rector of the University of Vienna He gained his reputation as a musicologist as editor of the musicological series Denkmaler der Tonkunst in Osterreich DTO 3 and through his research on Viennese classical music and Baroque music 4 Schenk received numerous honours for his services to musicological research including the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria in 1952 He also received honorary doctorate from the universities of Brno and Rostock In 1966 he received the Wilhelm Hartel Prize de in 1970 the Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art until he retired in 1971 Since 2003 the Mozart Society of Vienna has been awarding a new prize to young musicians under the name Erich Schenk Preis de 5 This was decreed in her will by the musicologist s widow and replaces the interpretation prize previously awarded by the City of Vienna Schenk died in Vienna at age 72 His burial place is at the Salzburger Kommunalfriedhof de Anti Semitism of Erich Schenk EditIt is undisputed that Schenk had a pronounced anti Semitic attitude from the beginning of the 1930s and did not correct this until his death This can be proven several times For example Schenk a member of the National Socialist Teachers League 6 then of the National Socialist German Lecturers League as lecturer and temporary employee for the Amt Rosenberg activities by providing information about former Jewish students of musicology 6 and worked closely with Herbert Gerigk and his Lexikon der Juden in der Musik 7 Gerigk thanked Schenk warmly A close examination of the Viennese doctoral candidates sic would probably reveal some more fat Jews 8 Schenk had been exempted from military service because of his collaboration in Rosenberg s Sonderstab Musik and also contributed to Rosenberg s journal Musik im Kriege de 9 In the biography of Johann Strauss II published in 1940 which continues to be of great importance to Strauss research in musicological terms every single Jew is meticulously identified and research findings on the proven pathologies of Johann Strauss are dismissed by Ernst Decsey and which are undoubtedly based on the statements of Strauss third wife Adele as autocratic interpretation and journalistic eloquence which did not appear in Strauss s life picture until after the World War the Jew Decsey set out to underpin it in terms of local and contemporary history 10 Donation and expropriation of the Adler Library Edit A particularly inglorious chapter in Schenk s biography is his role in the expropriation of musicologist Guido Adler s private library after his death in 1941 which is presented here in detail because it is stereotypical for the behavior of National Socialist musicologists during National Socialism For decades Schenk deceived the public by claiming in the article he wrote about himself in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart that he was the Library before the access of the Nazi authorities 11 It was not until 2000 when a manuscript of Gustav Mahler which was part of the library was to be auctioned at Sotheby s in Vienna that the Causa Schenk Adler Bibliothek was examined more closely The librarian Yukiko Sakabe has 2004 12 and 2007 13 the state of knowledge is summarized She speaks of the confiscation of Guido Adler s library with the participation of university professor Erich Schenk 13 Immediately after Guido Adler s death Schenk began to claim the library and also Adler s scientific estate for himself and for the Institute Schenk informed the Reich Ministry of Science Education and National Education in Berlin in a report dated 31 March 1941 about his unauthorized seizure of the library The expropriation took place in several steps After Schenk s unauthorized seizure of the library the Director General of the National Library Paul Heigl de opposes in a letter dated 5 May 1941 Although I do not wish to ignore the reasons given in your above mentioned report I consider a loyal division of the holdings between the Vienna National Library and your institute to be appropriate especially with regard to the manuscripts first prints and other unica that may be held in the Library Guido Israel Adler You therefore wish to consult the Director General of the Vienna National Library about such a division Signed on behalf of Frey On 6 May and 9 June 1941 a tour of Adler s Library takes place in the presence of two university professors Leopold Nowak and Robert Haas Nowak was Schenk s assistant at the time Haas headed the music collection of the Austrian National Library from 1920 to 1945 Melanie Adler 14 writes The visit on Tuesday was forced on me by the lawyer Richard Heiserer the one who stole the Mahler manuscript he was commissioned by Schenk who in my absence took possession of the key to the library He threatened to go to the Gestapo to intimidate me and play the matter into the hands of the others On 9 June 1941 Karl Borufka and Christian Nebehay from the antiquarian bookstore Heck were present as experts Some objects were not on their list For example the manuscript of Gustav Mahler s song I am lost to the world another one by Arthur Schnitzler and a death mask by Ludwig van Beethoven In a report Schenks submitted to the Lower Austrian Financial Directorate after the war it is stated that some mobile holdings including the death mask of Beethoven were lost after a bombing attack on Liebiggasse or after fighting in April 1945 at the Musicological Institute Hall and Kostner maintain that Schenk would have taken over the death mask before Borufka made his estimate 13 Shortly after the second viewing Melanie Adler terminated her lawyer Richard Heiserer Now lawyer Johann Kellner should represent Melanie Melanie Adler tried to sell her father s library to the Munich City Library On August 6 1941 she wrote to Rudolf von Ficker The day before yesterday the lawyer spent a whole morning at the Gestapo The Gestapo wants the library and the apartment for free 13 In October 1945 von Ficker wrote in a memorandum on the confiscation of the Adler Library During a visit to the musicology seminar on 8 May 1942 I happened to witness how the Adler Library was being unloaded and piled up there along with all the personal documents and accessories Prof Schenk whom I did not know before told me for clarification that Ms Adler had behaved very stupidly she had violated the law because she had protested against the confiscation of the library by the Gestapo She had fled but had already been found by the Gestapo and then it was March to Poland 15 Adler s daughter Melanie Adler was deported on 20 May 1942 and murdered on 26 May 1942 in the Maly Trostinets extermination camp 16 Several institutes were interested in acquiring the estate e g the National Library and the collections of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in manuscripts and unicums the Stadtische Sammlung der Stadt Wien an der Wiener Musik the Reichshochschule fur Musik from the point of view of increasing its library the Kulturamt der Stadt Wien today the library of the Musikschule der Stadt Wien the Musikwissenschaftliche Institut der Universitat Wien and the Generalreferat fur Kunstforderung in the theatre studies holdings for the archive On May 12 1942 the joint inspection and discussion of the division of the collection took place Schenk justified his claim to Adler s library by saying that Guido Adler had stolen the books during his teaching activities Approximately three quarters of the available book material was to be considered the property of the Musicological Institute However according to the inventory there was no proof of a claim of ownership by the university In 1943 a part of the books and sheet music from Adler s library was transferred from the Musicological Institute to the various Viennese institutions Finally parts of Adler s library had to be ceded to the following institutions by order of the Reichsgau Vienna Vienna University Library Library of the University of Music and Performing Arts Library of the Society of Friends of Music and Music Department of the National Library Later the divided library was returned to Adler s son Hubert Joachim who sold it to the University of Georgia 17 Legal proceedings against Schenk Edit A complaint against Schenk was only filed with the American occupying power after the war At that time Section Chief Otto Skrbensky in the Ministry of Education was in charge of the investigation He denied all charges against Schenk With regard to the confiscation of Adler s library he said in itself probably not against Professor Schenk since it is in the interest of Austria that this library be preserved for our fatherland 18 The expropriation as an act of public welfare seemed to Skrbensky unquestionably an appropriate measure On 30 June 1952 Federal Minister Ernst Kolb wrote to Schenk After a thorough examination of the events at the time the Federal Ministry recognized these accusations as incorrect and determined your correct behavior when the library was taken over by the musicological institute of the university in the sense of securing your assets 19 After the Second World War Edit As Gosta Neuwirth In the early sixties when he began work on Franz Schreker he was dispatched by the Viennese Ordinary I don t associate myself with Jews 20 A case against Schenk initiated for this purpose was discontinued in 1967 without result To the geschichtsklitternden Schenk s conduct also includes the fact that he verifiably corrected and re coloured his writings written during National Socialism on the occasion of the new edition of his Selected Essays Speeches and Lectures 21 Publications EditGiuseppe Antonio Paganelli de Sein Leben und seine Werke Nebst Beitragen zur Musikgeschichte Bayreuths Dissertation 1925 Munchen Waldheim Eberle Wien 1928 Johann Strauss II in der Reihe Herbert Gerigk Hg Unsterbliche Tonkunst de Athenaion Potsdam 1940 Das Ahnenerbe in W A Mozart Zur Mozart Woche des Deutschen Reichs in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Reichsministerium fur Volksaufklarung und Propaganda und dem Reichsstatthalter in Wien edited by Walther Thomas Vienna 1941 pp 16 22 Mozart und der italienische Geist in Geist der Zeit Wesen und Gestalt der Volker Organ des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes 19 1941 pp 580 590 Musik in Karnten in Schriften zu den Klagenfurter Hochschulwochen Klagenfurt 1941 Organisationsformen deutscher Gemeinschaftsmusik in Musikverein fur Karnten Festschrift 1942 Klagenfurt 1942 pp 58 63 950 Jahre Musik in Osterreich 1946 Kleine Wiener Musikgeschichte Neff Vienna 1947 W A Mozart Amalthea Verlag Vienna among others 1955 Neudruck Piper Schott Wien Munchen 1989 ISBN 3 7957 8268 6 Die italienische Trio sonata Das Musikwerk de Cologne 1955 Mozart and His Times 22 Ausgewahlte Aufsatze Reden und Vortrage Wiener musikwissenschaftliche Beitrage 7 Graz 1967 Die ausseritalienische Triosonate Das Musikwerk Cologne 1970 Editions Edit Franz Aspelmayr Op 1 4 Trio per due Violini e Basso continuo Osterreichischer Bundesverlag Vienna 1954 Giovanni Battista Bassani Op 5 9 Sonata a tre per due Violini e Basso continuo Osterreichischer Bundesverlag Vienna 1955 56 Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Mensa sonora seu musica instrumentalis sonatis aliquot liberius sonantibus ad mensam 1680 Denkmaler der Tonkunst in Osterreich 96 Akademische Druck und Verlagsanstalt Graz 1960 Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Fidicinium sacroprofanum tam choro quam foro pluribus fidibus concinnatum et concini aptum 1683 Denkmaler der Tonkunst in Osterreich 97 Akademische Druck und Verlagsanstalt Graz 1960 Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Sonate tam aris quam aulis servientes 1676 Denkmaler der Tonkunst in Osterreich 106 107 Akademische Druck und Verlagsanstalt Graz 1963 Tomaso Albinoni Op 8 4a Sonata da chiesa a tre Per 2 Vl Vc e B c Doblinger Wienna and Munich 1975 Further reading EditTheophil Antonicek Rudolf Flotzinger Othmar Wessely edits De ratione in musica Festschrift Erich Schenk zum 5 Mai 1972 Mit Bibliographie Barenreiter Kassel 1975 ISBN 3 7618 0420 2 Gerhard Oberkofler Orchideenfacher im Faschismus in Jahrbuch des Dokumentationsarchivs des osterreichischen Widerstands 1990 particularly pp 45 49 Eva Weissweiler Ausgemerzt Das Lexikon der Juden in der Musik und seine morderischen Folgen Dittrich Koln 1999 ISBN 3 920862 25 2 pp 28 f pp 71 f Tom Adler Lost to the World Selbstverlag o O 2000 ISBN 1 4010 8388 9 Zur Geschichte des Mahler Autographs Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Matthias Pape Erich Schenk ein osterreichischer Musikwissenschaftler in Salzburg Rostock und Wien Musikgeschichtsschreibung zwischen grossdeutscher und kleinosterreichischer Staatsidee In Die Musikforschung 53 Jg 2000 pp 413 431 Michael Staudinger Ein vatermorderisches Projekt Zur Geschichte der Wiener Musikwissenschaft von 1920 1960 In Dominik Schweiger Michael Staudinger Nikolaus Urbanek edits Musik Wissenschaft an ihren Grenzen Manfred Angerer zum 50 Geburtstag P Lang Frankfurt 2004 pp 393 406 Fred K Prieberg Handbuch Deutsche Musiker 1933 1945 CD ROM Selbstverlag Kiel 2004 pp 6070 6072 Murray G Hall Christina Kostner allerlei fur die Nationalbibliothek zu ergattern Vienna Bohlau 2006 Uwe Harten Schenk Erich In Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon Online edition Vienna 2002 ff ISBN 3 7001 3077 5 Print edition Volume 4 Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences VIenna 2005 ISBN 3 7001 3046 5 pp 2060 f External links EditLiterature by and about Erich Schenk in the German National Library catalogue Erich Schenk on Universitat Rostock Michael Lisseks Radiofeature uber die Arisierung der Bibliothek Guido Adlers und ihre Folgen Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Michael Malkiewicz Salzburg Journal Nannerl Mozart and Erich SchenkReferences Edit a b c Rudolf Klein revised by Pamela M Potter 2001 Schenk Erich Grove Music Online Oxford Music Online Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 gmo 9781561592630 article 24799 Dieter Hartwig Paisov 2001 Rostock Grove Music Online Oxford Music Online Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 gmo 9781561592630 article 23917 Carl Dahlhaus and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht Brockhaus Riemann Musiklexikon vol 4 3 Edition Schott Musik International paperback edition 2001 ISBN 3 254 08399 7 p 104 Wien 1962 Webservice of the City of Vienna Mozartgemeinde Wien Geschichte a b Fred K Prieberg since 2 August 1934 Handbuch Deutsche Musiker 1933 1945 Kiel 2004 CD ROM encyclopedia p 6070 Eva Weissweiler Exterminated The Lexikon der Juden in der Musik and its murderous consequences Dittrich Cologne 1999 p 71f Gerhard Scheit The most German of the sciences About the Sonderkommandos of German musicology MS Word 30 kB In Konkret 8 2001 retrieved on 2 September 2009 Ernst Klee Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich Wer war was vor und nach 1945 S Fischer Frankfurt 2007 ISBN 978 3 10 039326 5 p 519 Erich Schenk Johann Strauss In Immortal musical art life and creative images of great musicians Edited by Herbert Gerigk with the collaboration of Erich Schenk Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion Potsdam 1940 p 105 ff article Schenk Erich written by Erich Schenk and Theophil Antonicek in Music in History and Present Volume 11 first edition 1963 p 1664 Yukiko Sakabe Erich Schenk and the Case Eagle Library In Musicology on its borders Frankfurt Lang 2004 pp 383 392 a b c d Yukiko Sakabe The library of Guido Adler In Mitteilungen der Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft volume 2007 No 1 March pp 10 13 available as pdf Portrait of Melanie Karoline Adler student at the University of Innsbruck see 1 called on 27 August 2017 Rudolf von Ficker Memorandum Igls near Innsbruck on 29 October 29 1945 in the Schenk legacy of the Archive of the Society of the Friends of Music Vienna and in the Wellesz legacy of the music collection of the Austrian National Library quoted in full by Gerhard Oberkofler Orchideenfacher im Faschismus in Jahrbuch des Dokumentationsarchivs des osterreichischen Widerstandes 1990 pp 45 49 here pp 47 49 See also Renate Erhart Melanie Karoline Adler 1888 1942 retrieved on 13 February 2012 Entry for Melanie Adler in The Central Database of Shoah Victims Names Staudinger On the History of Musicology at the University of Vienna in the years 1938 1945 In Music in Vienna 1938 1945 edited by Carmen Ottner Vienna 2006 p 247 Murray Kostner to get hold of all kinds of things for the National Library p 297 Quoted after Yukiko Sakabe The Library of Guido Adler In Mitteilungen der Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft Volume 2007 No 1 p 12 Archiv Musikfreunde Schenk Nachlass music austria see Pape Erich Schenk passim Mozart and His Times on Google Books Portals Classical music Austria Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Erich Schenk amp oldid 1129153040, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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