Hans Hoffmann (musician)

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Hans Hoffmann (26 January 1902 – 26 August 1949^[1]) was a German lyrical tenor, musicologist and municipal music director in Bielefeld.

Life[]

Born in Prudnik, Hoffmann first studied musicology at the universities of Breslau, Leipzig, Berlin and Kiel (with Fritz Stein) and was awarded a doctorate summa cum laude in Kiel on 17 May 1927. He also studied violin and singing (in Berlin with Baptist Hoffmann). From 1928, he made a name for himself as a concert singer, in oratorios and passions, but also as an art singer. At the Wiener Musikverein in 1940 he sang the world premiere of Franz Schmidt cantata  [de] in the tenor part.

Parallel to his singing career, Hoffmann also worked as a musicologist (lecturer in Kiel and professor at the University of Halle).

Following his move to Bielefeld, he worked there as a choirmaster and Kapellmeister at the Theatre and finally as municipal music director.^[2]

Hoffmann died in Bielefeld at the age of 47.

Publications[]

• Die norddeutsche Triosonate des Kreises um Johann Gottlieb Graun and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.^[3] (Dissertation). Kiel, Delivered by W. G. Mühlau 1927, 188 p.
• Heinrich Schütz und Johann Sebastian Bach: 2 Tonsprachen und ihre Bedeutung für die Aufführungspraxis, Kassel : Bärenreiter-Verlag [1940] 79 .
• Vom Wesen der zeitgenössischen Kirchenmusik.^[4] Kassel Basel : Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1949, 111 .

Further reading[]

• Dr. Hans Hoffmann, Städtischer Musikdirektor in Bielefeld, published by the city of Bielefeld

References[]

External links[]

• Literature by and about Hans Hoffmann (musician) in the German National Library catalogue