Hermann (Wolfgang Sartorius, Freiherr von) Waltershausen

born Göttingen, Oct 12, 1882; died Munich, Aug 13, 1954

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German composer and teacher.

Career Summary

Hermann Waltershausen worked at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich, 1920–21 as professor and assistant director, 1922–32 as joint director with Siegmund von Hausegger. He also organized the Münchener Tonkünstlerverein. He was active during and after the Nazi era.

Waltershausen was editor of two monograph series issued by the Munich publishing house Drei Masken Verlag (publishers of Schenker's Das Meisterwerk in der Musik): Musikalische Stillehre in Einzeldarstellungen and Zeitgenössische Komponisten.

Correspondence

No correspondence is known to survive between Waltershausen and Schenker. Waltershausen's wife, Philippina, wrote a letter to Schenker in 1931 (OJ 15/9; see Federhofer, pp. 288–89, fn. 10), regarding words Schenker had written about Thomas Mann.

Sources:

  • Grove Music Online (Dec 2011)
  • Federhofer, Hellmut, Heinrich Schenker, nach Tagebüchern und Briefen ... (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1985)

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  • Ian Bent

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Correspondence

  • WSLB 132 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated August 25, 1912

    Schenker returns the contract for Die letzten fünf Sonaten von Beethoven signed. — Proclaiming "Ex Austria lux," he says that Austria's tradition from Haydn to Brahms and Dvořák[sic] will now be followed by Schenker's "explanation" (Aufklärung) of that tradition, which will spawn a new generation of composers superior to the present "cacophony," with Universal Edition as the agent of that "rebuilding of tonal music" (Aufbau der Tonkunst). — He alludes to the possibility of teaching for the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde's proposed "Hochschule." — He prompts Hertzka to act on the Organization of Musicians project in the fall.

  • OJ 11/54, [24] Typed letter from Hoboken to Schenker, dated August 27, 1928

    Hoboken recounts his and his wife's travels through Germany, including encounters with Thomas Mann and others. He expects to return to Vienna in mid-October.

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