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This document provides a biography of Austrian musicologist Hellmut Federhofer (b. 1911). It details his education in Graz and Vienna, where he studied under prominent figures. Federhofer taught musicology at the universities of Graz and Mainz and was known for his writings on a wide range of topics from early medieval sources to 20th century music theory. He made significant contributions as an editor through his work on the collected editions of Fux and Mozart. Federhofer was considered one of the most important musicologists in postwar Austria.

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This document provides a biography of Austrian musicologist Hellmut Federhofer (b. 1911). It details his education in Graz and Vienna, where he studied under prominent figures. Federhofer taught musicology at the universities of Graz and Mainz and was known for his writings on a wide range of topics from early medieval sources to 20th century music theory. He made significant contributions as an editor through his work on the collected editions of Fux and Mozart. Federhofer was considered one of the most important musicologists in postwar Austria.

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Federhofer, Hellmut
(b Graz, 6 Aug 1911). Austrian musicologist. After studying the piano and
theory in Graz he attended the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied under
Richard Stöhr and took a diploma in conducting in 1936. He then studied
privately under Alban Berg, Oswald Jonas and Emil von Sauer. At Vienna
University he studied musicology under Orel and Lach, and in 1936 he took the
doctorate there with a dissertation on chordal and harmonic structure in early
motets of the Trent Codices. In 1937 he became state librarian in the Austrian
library service. He completed the Habilitation in 1944 at Graz University with a
study of musical form. He then taught there as a lecturer and from 1951 as
professor of musicology. In 1962 he was appointed director of the musicology
institute of Mainz University. As an editor he has been in charge of the series
Musik Alter Meister (1949–80) and the Mainzer Studien zur Musikwissenschaft
(1967–85), the Fux collected edition (1955–67; from 1986), to which he has
contributed several volumes, and Acta musicologica (1962–86). He retired from
his university post in 1980. He was awarded the Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz
für Musikwissenschaft und Kunst in 1959 and was made an honorary member
of the Zentralinstitut für Mozartforschung in 1981.
Federhofer ranks as one of the most important musicologists of postwar
Austria. In addition to the contributions he has made to music scholarship
through his work as an editor, he has written monographs on subjects ranging
from early medieval sources to the theories of Schenker. His writings may be
grouped into roughly five categories: his early publications on the late Middle
Ages, his writings on the local music history of southern Austria (particularly
Graz), his articles on Baroque music treatises, his work on Fux, and his later
publications on 20th-century music and music theory (particularly the theories of
Schenker and Adorno).
His wife, Renate Federhofer-Königs (b Cologne, 4 Jan 1930), studied
musicology in Cologne with Fellerer and Hüschen and obtained the doctorate
there in 1957 with the dissertation J. Oridryus und sein Musiktraktat (Düsseldorf
1557) (Cologne, 1957). She has also published articles in the
Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch on music theory from the 14th century to the
16th, a book on Wasielewsky’s correspondence (Tutzing, 1975), and articles on
correspondence sent to Mendelssohn and Schumann.
WRITINGS
Akkordik und Harmonik in frühen Motetten der Trienter Codices (diss., U. of
Vienna, 1944)
Musikalische Form als Ganzheit (Habilitationsschrift, U. of Graz, 1944; Beiträge
zur musikalischen Gestaltanalyse, Graz, Vienna and Innsbruck, 1950)
‘Eine neue Quelle der musica reservata’, AcM, xxiv (1952), 32–45
‘Graz Court Musicians and their Contributions to the Parnassus musicus
Ferdinandaeus (1615)’, MD, ix (1955), 167–244
‘Zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung der Musiktheorie in Österreich in der
zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts’, Mf, xi (1958), 264–79
‘Unbekannte Kirchenmusik von Johann Joseph Fux’, KJb, xliii (1959), 113–54
‘Marco Scacchis “Cribrum musicum” (1643) und die Kompositionslehre von
Christoph Bernhard’, Festschrift Hans Engel, ed. H. Heussner (Kassel,
1964), 76–90
‘Ein Salzburger Theoretikerkreis’, AcM, xxxvi (1964), 50–79
Musikpflege und Musiker am Grazer Habsburgerhof der Erzherzöge Karl und
Ferdinand von Innerösterreich (1564–1619) (Mainz, 1967)
‘Die Dissonanzbehandlung in Monteverdis kirchenmusikalischen Werken und

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die Figurenlehre von Christoph Bernhard’, Claudio Monteverdi e il suo tempo:


Venice, Mantua and Cremona 1968, 435–78
‘Zum Manierismus-Problem in der Musik’, Renaissance-muziek 1400–1600:
donum natalicium René Bernard Lenaerts, ed. J. Robijns and others
(Leuven, 1969), 105–19
‘Briefe von Franz und Vincenz Lachner an Franz und Betty Schott’, Festschrift
für einen Verleger: Ludwig Strecker, ed. C. Dahlhaus (Mainz, 1973), 149–
66
‘Ein Hörprotokoll neuer Musik’, Scritti in onore di Luigi Ronga (Milan and
Naples, 1973), 157–77
‘Ist Palestrina ein Manierist?’, Convivium musicorum: Festschrift Wolfgang
Boetticher, ed. H. Hüschen and D.-R. Moser (Berlin, 1974), 44–51
with R. Federhofer-Königs: ‘Ein anonymer Musiktraktat der Stiftsbibliothek
Fiecht in Tirol’, Festschrift Walter Senn, ed. E. Egg and E. Fässler (Munich,
1975), 36–52
‘Karlheinz Stockhausens Mozartdeutung’, IRASM, vi (1975), 229–40
Neue Musik: ein Literaturbericht (Tutzing, 1977)
‘Terzverwandte Akkorde und ihre Funktion in der Harmonik Franz Schuberts’,
Schubert Congress: Vienna 1978, 61–70
‘25 Jahre Johann Joseph Fux Forschung’, AcM, lii (1980), 155–94
Akkord und Stimmführung in den musiktheoretischen Systemen von Hugo
Riemann, Ernst Kurth und Heinrich Schenker (Vienna, 1981)
‘Heinrich Schenkers Verhältnis zu Arnold Schönberg’, AÖAW, cxvii (1981),
369–90
‘Johannes Brahms – Arnold Schönberg und der Fortschritt’, SMw, xxxiv (1983),
111–30
with A. Gleissner: ‘Eine deutsche Orgeltabulatur im Stadt- und Stiftsarchiv
Aschaffenburg’, AcM, lvii (1985), 180–95
Heinrich Schenker: nach Tagebüchern und Briefen in der Oswald Jonas
Memorial Collection, University of California, Riverside (Hildesheim, 1985)
Musikwissenschaft und Musikpraxis (Vienna, 1985)
‘Christoph Bernhards Figurenlehre und die Dissonanz’, Mf, xlii (1989), 110–27
ed.: Heinrich Schenker als Essayist und Kritiker: gesammelte Aufsätze,
Rezensionen und kleinere Berichte aus den Jahren 1891–1901
(Hildesheim, 1990)
‘Das negative Kunstwerk in der Musikphilosophie Adornos’, AMw, xlvii (1990),
247–63
‘Arnold Schönbergs Zwölftontechnik im Spiegel von Theodor W. Adornos
Musikphilosophie’, SMw, xl (1991), 237–57
‘L.Chr. Mizlers Kommentare zu den beiden Büchern des Gradus ad Parnassum
von J.J. Fux’, SMH, xxxv (1993–4), 341–59
‘Musica poetica und musikalische Figur in ihrer Bedeutung für die Kirchenmusik
des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts’, AcM, lxv (1993), 119–33
‘Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935) als Musiktheoretiker’, SMw, xliii (1994), 319–
40
‘Musikgeschichtsschreibung und Musiksoziologie’, IRASM, xxvi (1995), 135–46
Musik und Geschichte (Hildesheim, 1996)
EDITIONS
Niederländische und italienische Musiker der Grazer Hofkapelle Karls II, 1564–
1590, DTÖ, xc (1954)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, VIII/11:22/i:
Quartette und Quintette mit Klavier und mit Glasharmonika (Kassel, 1957–
8); I:3: Kleinere Kirchenwerke (Kassel, 1963–4); I:2/i Litaneien (Kassel,
1969) [with R. Federhofer-Königs]; XXX:2: Barbara Ployers und Franz

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Jakob Freystädtlers Theorie- und Kompositionsstudien bei Mozart (Kassel,


1989) [with A. Mann]
Johann Joseph Fux: Sämtliche Werke, i/1: Missa corporis Christi (Kassel,
1959); iii/1: Motetten und Antiphonen (Kassel, 1959) [with R. Federhofer-
Königs]; v/1: Julio Ascanio Re d’Alba (Kassel, 1962); v/2: Pulcheria
(Kassel, 1967) [with W. Suppan]; i/2: Missa Lachrymantis Virginis (Graz,
1971); i/6: Missa humilitatis (Graz, 1992) [with R. Hilmar]; ii/4: Vier
Lauretanische Litaneien mit Trompeten (Graz, 1995) [with R. Federhofer-
Königs]; v/4: La decima fatica d’Ercole (Graz, 1996)
G. Muffat: An Essay on Thoroughbass, MSD, iv (1961) [Regulae concentum
partiturae (MS, c1699, A-Wm)]
BIBLIOGRAPHY
F.W. Riedel and H. Unverricht, eds.: Symbolae historiae musicae: Hellmut
Federhofer zum 60. Geburtstag (Mainz, 1971) [incl. list of pubns]
C. Dahlhaus: ‘Noch einmal: der Federhofer-Wellek-Test’, Mf, xxv (1972), 187–9
R. Klein: ‘Zu Hellmut Federhofers und Albert Welleks Aufsatz “Tonale und
dodekaphonische Musik im experimentellen Vergleich”’, Mf, xxv (1972),
64–6
H. Flechsig: Studien zur Theorie und Methode musikalischer Analyse (Munich,
1976)
C. Dahlhaus: ‘Im Namen Schenkers’, Mf, xxxvi (1983), 82–7
C.-H. Mahling, ed.: Florilegium musicologicum: Hellmut Federhofer zum 75.
Geburtstag (Tutzing, 1988) [incl. list of pubns, 517–21]
G. Wagner: Reflexionen über Neue Musik: Hans Gal im Briefwechsel mit
Hellmut Federhofer (Mainz, 1996)
HANS HEINRICH EGGEBRECHT/R

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