Werner Danckert (22 June 1900 – 5 March 1970) was a German folk song researcher.
Life
Born in
Erfurt, Danckert trained as a concert pianist after graduating from high school in 1917. He studied
musicology with the subsidiary subjects
philosophy and
physics. In 1923 he received his doctorate in
Erlangen (summa cum laude); the
habilitation followed at the
University of Jena in 1926.
In 1937 Danckert became a member of the
NSDAP and professor at the
Musikhochschule Weimar.[1] Danckert became a member of the Hauptstelle Musik at the
Amt Rosenberg. At the
Reichsmusiktage in Düsseldorf (1938).[2] Danckert gave a lecture on Volkstum, Stammesart, Rasse im Lichte der Volkstumsforschung.[1] In 1939 he published the book Die ältesten Spuren germanischer Volksmusik.[1] In 1943 he was given a chair in Graz and an apl. professorship in Berlin as successor of
Herbert Birtner [
de].[1]
After the end of the Second World War he did not return to any university,[1] but published further books on folk music and other musical topics.
Studien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte ostasiatischer Musik
Musik im indopazifischen Raum
Musikwissenschaft und Kulturkreislehre
References
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abcdeErnst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007,
ISBN978-3-10-039326-5, p. 106.
^Thomas Phleps: A quiet, dogged and tenacious fight for continuity - musicology in NS-Germany and its past political coping. In Isolde v. Foerster et al. (ed.), Musicology - National Socialism - Fascism, Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488