Historical Sources of Turkish Music in Berlin: The Kurt Reinhard Collections in the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv

Year 2019, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 58 - 76, 30.06.2019

Susanne Zıegler

https://doi.org/10.33906/musicologist.560186

Abstract

In the focus of this paper are historical
sources of Turkish music kept in institutions and archives in Berlin. They are,
first and foremost, due to the work of Kurt Reinhard (1914–1979), professor at the
Free University in Berlin (1948–1977) and director of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv
(1952–1968). From 1955 onwards, he intensively did fieldwork in Turkey, often
together with his wife Ursula, and published and lectured on Turkish music.

Today Reinhard’s sound recordings are
preserved in the Phonogramm-Archiv in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin,
together with ample documentation, photos, writings, correspondence, and
personal documents. Additional materials, including recordings and publications
of his students and colleagues, preserved in the Institute for Comparative Musicology
of the Free University, have also been given to the Phonogramm-Archiv.

These historical documents form a unique
collection of cultural heritage of Turkish music, which includes examples of
music and dance from the late 1950’s through the end of the 20th century.

In my article I shall briefly introduce the
different Berlin institutions and provide information on the sound collections
of Turkish music recorded in Turkey by Reinhard, his wife, his students, and
colleagues from 1955 onwards.

Keywords

Historical sound recordings, Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv, Kurt Reinhard, Cultural heritage

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