Bernhard Paumgartner und Felix Petyrek: Zwei Mitarbeiter der Musikhistorischen Zentrale beim k. u. k. Kriegsministerium (1916–1918)

Hois, Eva (2008) Bernhard Paumgartner und Felix Petyrek: Zwei Mitarbeiter der Musikhistorischen Zentrale beim k. u. k. Kriegsministerium (1916–1918). Studia Musicologica, 49 (3-4). pp. 459-469. ISSN 1788-6244

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Abstract

A special chapter of research into the history of folk music in the time of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy was the Musikhistorische Zentrale (Music History Department) at the imperial royal Ministry of War. It was established during World War I, modelled on the Austrian Volksliedunternehmen (today Volksliedwerk). The Musikhistorische Zentrale wanted to collect all the soldiers’ songs, fanfares, military music, soldiers’ sayings, customs, jokes, letters and their expressions which are of historical and cultural significance. Bernhard Paumgartner (1887–1971), a musician and lawyer, had the idea of collecting this material. After the war, he became well known as the director of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, as conductor, music researcher and member of the Salzburger Festspiele. Under Paumgartner’s direction, notable individuals were involved in the compilation of Musikhistorische Zentrale. One of these men was the student of composition and musicology Felix Petyrek (1892–1951), who was dedicated to folk music all over his life as composer as well as researcher and music teacher. Other important collaborators for the Hungarian part on the collection were Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók.

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