Victor Lederer ( German: Viktor Lambert Lederer [2] ; October 7, 1881 , Prague - October 12, 1944 , Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp) is an Austrian musicologist and music critic of Jewish origin.
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| Known as | author of the work on the influence of traditional Celtic music on the European musical evolution of the 15th century |
He graduated from Charles University (1904) in Prague as a philologist and lawyer, also studied the violin, but due to the state of the nervous system he was forced to abandon his performing career. From his student years he published as a journalist, headed the art department in the newspaper Prager Tageblatt . In 1904-1907 He lived and worked in Leipzig, headed the department of music and art in the newspaper Leipzig latest news. After 1907 he lived in Vienna, for a short time he headed the newspaper Musikliterarische Blätter (in which, in particular, he published the famous crushing review of the Arnold Schoenberg Chamber Symphony , in which Lederer described this music full of dissonance as a portrait of modern society, corroded by anarchy and decay morality [3] ), was published in such publications as the Berlin Musical Newspaper and Signals for the Musical World .
Lederer’s most important musicological work is the book “On the Homeland and Origin of Polyphonic Music” ( German Über Heimat und Ursprung der mehrstimmigen Tonkunst ; 1906), which develops the thesis about the influence of traditional Celtic music on European musical evolution of the 15th century and caused quite a wide professional resonance.
Notes
- ↑ https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/105168-viktor-lambert-lederer/
- ↑ VIKTOR LAMBERT LEDERER
- ↑ Esteban Buch. Le Cas Schönberg. Naissance de l'avant-garde musicale. - P .: Gallimard, 2006 .-- P. 145-146. (fr.)
Literature
- Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft: 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert. - Muenchen, 2002. - Bd. 1. - S. 802. (German)