Hornbostel Opera Omnia

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VORWORT 1 Erich Moritz von Hornbostel (1877-1935) Erich Moritz von Hornbostel (1877-1935) 1 gilt allgemein als der Begriinder der Ver- is generally regarded as the founder of gleichenden Musikwissenschaft. Comparative Musicology. 2 Wahrend der achtundfiinfzig Jahre sei- The fifty-eight years of his lifetime saw 2 nes Lebens erweiterten sich die musika- an extraordinary expansion of the Western lischen Horizonte des Abendlandes in musical horizon; it was not only a period ausserordentlicher Weise. Es war dies nicht of ever accelerating progress toward an nur eine Zeit des immer schnelleren Fort- unpredictable future but also an era of rediscovery of a musical past with which schreitens in eine unvorhersehbare Zu- kunft hinein, es war gleichermassen eine the listeners of 1900 had lost touch. Epoche der Wiederentdeckung einer musi- kalischen Vergangenheit, zu der der Horer von 1900 jedes Verhaltnis verloren hatte. 3 Oberschaut man heute die musikali- Surveying the musical events of those 3 schen Ereignisse jener fast 60 Jahre, so almost three score years, we see that zeigt sich, dass Hornbostels Wirken ein Hornbostel’s work formed an integral integraler Teil des Musiklebens seiner Zeit part of the musical life of his time. Horn- war. Hornbostel war kein isoliertes Pha- bostel was not an isolated phenomenon.