Heinrich Sievers

Sievers was born at the time of the German Empire in the small town of Dorum at the North Sea, but spent his youth in the towns Goslar and Peine.[1] After finishing school, he studied musicology at the time of the Weimar Republic, initially in Würzburg at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.[5] There he became a member of the Akademisch-Musikalische Verbindung zu Würzburg[6]

In 1931, during his studies Sievers discovered[5] in the archive of the Wienhausen Abbey the Wienhäuser Liederbuch from the year 1460,[1] which he published two decades later as facsimile.[5]

From 1932, Sievers continued his studies in Cologne at the local University, where in 1935[5] with his musicological research Die lateinischen liturgischen Osterspiele der Stiftskirche St. Blasien zu Braunschweig ... he won his Dr. phil..[7]

From 1937 Sievers worked in Braunschweig as a music critic[5] and started in Hanover in the year of the beginning of the Second World War (1939) at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.[8]

Parallel to his activities at the State Music School, Sievers was able to work in the post-war period in Germany and still under the British Occupation Zone from 1946 on at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library. (TH).[8] In addition he taught at the Kirchenmusikschule Hannover.[5]

In 1954 Sievers succeeded the chemist and university lecturer Walter Scheele as conductor of the collegium musicum, the symphony orchestra of the later Leibniz Universität Hannover.[2]

In 1959 Sievers was appointed professor of musicology at the Hanover University of Music and Drama, where he was also responsible for the department of church music. In the same year he was appointed honorary professor at the TH Hannover. In addition, he again worked as a critic in magazines or daily newspapers such as the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.[5] From 1960 until 1968 he was music director of the Sondershäuser Verband Akademisch-Musikalische Verbindungen.[9]

Sievers researched the history of music, especially that of Hannover and Niedersachsen, almost throughout his life. His numerous essays, reviews, books and appearances in radio broadcasts were reflected in several publications. Among his most important are Die Musik in Hannover (1961), Musica curiosa[10] (1970, 2nd edition 1971), Kammermusik in Hannover of 1980 and the keyword Hannover in the 1st edition of the encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. His two volumes of the Hannoversche Musikgeschichte (1979 and 1984)[5] are among the standard works.[1]

Sievers died in Garatshausen (Upper Bavaria) in 1999 at the age of 91.

• Sievers was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of Lower Saxony.[4]
• He was appointed honorary member of the Hannoverscher Oratorienchor.[4]
• 1984 Sievers was honored by the "Sängerbund Nordwestdeutschland" with the "Fokke-Pollmann-Medal".[4]

• Die lateinischen liturgischen Osterspiele der Stiftskirche St. Blasien zu Braunschweig. Eine musikwissenschaftliche Untersuchung ….[11] (Veröffentlichungen der Niedersächsischen Musikgeschichte, issue 2, Kallmeyer: Wolfenbüttel), plus Dissertation 1935 at the University of Würzburg, 1936
• Heinrich Sievers, Albert Trapp, Alexander Schum: 250 Jahre Braunschweigisches Staatstheater, 1690–1940.[12] edited by the Braunschweigischen Landesstelle für Heimatforschung und Heimatpflege, Braunschweig: Appelhans, 1941
• Heinrich Sievers (ed.): Bach-Jahr 1950, edited by the Landeshauptstadt Hannover
  • Folge 1: November 1949 bis März 1950, Hanover: Osterwald, 1949
• Hannoversche Musikgeschichte. Dokumente, Kritiken und Meinungen.[13] Tutzing: Schneider
  • Vol. 1: Von den Anfängen bis zu den Befreiungskriegen, 1979, ISBN 978-3-7952-0282-8 and ISBN 3-7952-0282-5
  • Vol. 2: Vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zur Auflösung des Königreichs Hannover, 1984, ISBN 978-3-7952-0396-2 and ISBN 3-7952-0396-1
• Die Musik in Hannover. Die musikalischen Strömungen in Niedersachsen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Musikgeschichte der Landeshauptstadt Hannover.,[14] 168 partly illustrated pages with music samples and a phonograph record, published on the occasion of the 325th anniversary of the Opera House Orchestra by the Society of Friends of the Opera House Orchestra, Hanover: Sponholtz, 1961
• Kammermusik in Hannover. Historisches, Gegenwärtiges – Kritiken, Meinungen. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Wirkens der Hannoverschen Kammermusik-Gemeinde 1929–1979, Tutzing: Schneider Verlag, 1980
• Prisma der Musikgeschichte.[15] Tutzing: Schneider, 1983, ISBN 978-3-7952-0393-1 and ISBN 3-7952-0393-7; Table of contents

as publisher:

• Musik im Weltbild, Book series of the Braunschweigische Staatsmusikschule and the Landesmusikschule Hanover, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1947
• Das Wienhäuser Liederbuch.[16] 2 volumes in facsimile, Wolfenbüttel: Möseler, 1954
• A. A. H. H. Sievers: "Musica curiosa. Neu eröffnetes musicalisch-historisches Rarietäten Cabinet, worin nicht nur einem würcklichen galant-homme, der eben kein Professions-Verwandter, sondern auch manchem Musico selbst die alleraufrichtigste und deutlichste Vorstellung musicalischer Scharteken, wie sich dieselben vom Schulstaub tüchtig gesäubert, eigentlich und wahrhafftig verhalten, ertheilet, auch ein blühend wohlriechend Würtzgärtlein Historiae Musicae, mit Ehr- und Lehr-, Schertz- und Schmertz-, Leid- und Freuden-Gewächsen, welche zu unterschiedl. Zeiten gepflantzet, nunmehr aber allen vernünfftigen Liebhabern zu sonderbarem Gefallen zu hauffe gesamlet u. in die offenbahre Welt ausgestreuet" (Musica curiosa. Newly opened musical-historical rarities cabinet, in which not only a dignified galant-homme, who is not related to any profession, but also many a Musico himself has the most sincere and clearest idea of musical gangsters, how they behave in a proper and truthful way, cleaned from the school dust, is also told by a blooming, fragrant little spice garden Historiae Musicae, with plants of honour and teaching, of jokes and pain, of suffering and joy, which are too different from each other. Planted at different times, but now to all reasonable lovers to strange favour to be spread out to the open world, 191 partly illustrated pages with examples of music, 2nd, changed and enlarged edition, Tutzing: Schneider, 1971, ISBN 978-3-7952-0100-5 and ISBN 3-7952-0100-4
• Scurrilia in musica. Ergetzliches aus allerlei Journalen.[17] Tutzing: Schneider, 1988, ISBN 978-3-7952-0569-0 and ISBN 3-7952-0569-7

• Günter Katzenberger (ed.): Heinrich Sievers zum 70. Geburtstag. In cooperation with Richard Jakoby.[18] Tutzing: Schneider, 1978, ISBN 978-3-7952-0261-3 and ISBN 3-7952-0261-2; Inhaltsverzeichnis
• Rita Seidel: Catalogus professorum 1831–1981. Festschrift zum 150jährigen Bestehen der Universität Hannover, edited on behalf of the President, University of Hannover, Stuttgart; Berlin; Cologne; Mainz: Kohlhammer, 1981, ISBN 3-17-007321-4, p. 298.[1]
• Helga Fredebold: Ein Rössinger Original, Heinrich Sievers. In Hildesheimer Heimat-Kalender: Kalender für Familie und Haus. Jahrbuch für Kunst und Wissenschaft im Hildesheimer Land, Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1998, ISSN 0340-8477.[1]
• Werner Sührig: Ostfälisches Platt im Hildesheimer Land. Das Sievers-Kese'sche Gesamtwerk.[19] (Veröffentlichungen des Landschaftsverbandes Hildesheim, vol. 13), Hildesheim [among others]: Olms, 2002, p. 167[1]

• Literature by and about Heinrich Sievers in the German National Library catalogue