Manfred Bukofzer
{{Short description|German-born American musicologist (1910–1955)}}
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| death_place = Berkeley, California, US
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Manfred Fritz Bukofzer (27 March 1910 – 7 December 1955) was a German-born American musicologist.
Life and career
He studied at Heidelberg University and the Stern conservatory in Berlin, but left Germany in 1933 for Switzerland, where he obtained a doctorate from the University of Basel in 1936. In 1939 he moved to the United States where he remained, becoming a U.S. citizen. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1941 until his premature death from multiple myeloma.{{cite journal |last=Hertzmann |first=Erich |date=1956 |title=Manfred Bukofzer |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41114919 |url-access=registration |journal=Die Musikforschung |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=281–285 |jstor=41114919 |language=DE |access-date=3 October 2022 |archive-date=5 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005144322/https://www.jstor.org/stable/41114919 |url-status=live }}
Bukofzer is best known as a historian of early music, particularly of the Baroque era. His book Music in the Baroque Era is still one of the standard reference works on the topic, although some modern historians assert that it has a Germanic bias – for example, in minimizing the importance of opera (Italian by origin) during the development of musical style in the 17th century.
In addition to Baroque music, he was a specialist in English music and music theory of the 14th through 16th centuries. His other scholarly interests included jazz and ethnomusicology. Furthermore, during his time at Berkeley, Bukofzer conducted several successful operas, including The Beggar's Opera, Dido and Aeneas, and Village Barber.{{cite journal |last=Boyden |first=David D. |author-link=David Dodge Boyden |date=1956 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/740426 |title=In Memoriam: Manfred F. Bukofzer (1910-1955) |url-access=registration |journal=The Musical Quarterly |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=291–301 |doi=10.1093/mq/XLII.3.291 |jstor=740426 |access-date=3 October 2022 |archive-date=27 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221227173329/https://www.jstor.org/stable/740426 |url-status=live }}
Among his influential students was Leonard Ratner.{{cite journal |last=Agawu |first=Kofi |author-link=V. Kofi Agawu |date=2012 |title=Leonard G. Ratner, 1916–2012 |url=https://www.utorpheus.com/index.php?route=adparnassum/issues&num=19 |url-access=subscription |journal=Ad Parnassum: A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music |publisher=Ut Orpheus Edizioni |volume=10 |issue=19 |pages=190–194 |archive-date=3 October 2022 |access-date=3 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003103316/https://www.utorpheus.com/index.php?route=adparnassum/issues&num=19 |url-status=live }} He was married to Ilse Kämmerer.{{cite journal |author= |date=2010 |url=http://www.ams-net.org/newsletter/AMSNewsletter-2008-8.pdf |title=Manfred Bukofzer (1910–1955) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195359/http://www.ams-net.org/newsletter/AMSNewsletter-2008-8.pdf |archive-date=3 March 2016 |journal=AMS Newsletter |publisher=American Musicological Society |volume=38 |issue=2 |page=27 |access-date=26 August 2010}}
Selected bibliography
- {{cite journal |last=Bukofzer |first=Manfred |date=1936 |title=Über Leben und Werke von Dunstable |trans-title=On the Life and Works of Dunstable |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/932037 |url-access=registration |language=German |journal=Acta Musicologica |volume=8 |issue=3/4 |pages=102–119 |doi=10.2307/932037 |jstor=932037 }}
- {{cite book |last=Bukofzer |first=Manfred R. |author-link=Manfred Bukofzer |date=1947 |title=Music in the Baroque Era: From Monteverdi to Bach |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |oclc=318558558 |url=https://archive.org/details/musicinbaroqueer0000buko |url-access=registration }}
- {{cite book |last=Bukofzer |first=Manfred R. |author-link=Manfred Bukofzer |date=1950 |title=Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music |url=https://archive.org/details/studiesinmedieva00buko |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |oclc=599423 |isbn=9780393002416 |via=Internet Archive}}
- {{cite journal |last=Bukofzer |first=Manfred |date=1954 |title=John Dunstable: A Quincentenary Report |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/739701 |url-access=registration |journal=The Musical Quarterly |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=29–49 |doi=10.1093/mq/XL.1.29 |jstor=739701 }}
References
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- {{cite encyclopedia |last=Charles |first=Sydney Robinson |year=2001 |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online |title=Bukofzer, Manfred F(ritz) |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.04284 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000004284 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}
External links
- {{DIAMM|aid=163|aname=Manfred Bukofzer}}
- [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4d5nb0xm/entire_text/ Bukofzer Collection] at the University of California, Berkeley
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