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You are bidding on oneHandwritten, signed greeting card of the musicologist Fritz Bose (1906-1975).

Dated3. February 1961.

Aimed at the pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976).

Congratulations on your 75th birthday Birthday.

With sender stamp (Berlin-Charlottenburg).

Motive:Adolf Zabranský: The ugly Duckling (UNICEF map).

Format: 14.5x11.7cm.

Condition:Card slightly browned, with edge compression and stamp print-through. bitte note the pictures too!

Internal note: Kroll 9

About Fritz Bose and Erwin Kroll (source: wikipedia):

Fritz Bose (*26. July 1906 in Messenthin; † 16. August 1975 in Berlin) was a German musicologist. He dealt with acoustics, ethnomusicology and psychology.

Life: Bose was born in 1906 in Messenthin in the Randow district (since Messenthin was incorporated into Stettin from 1939 to 1945, “Stettin” is also named as the place of birth). Bose attended the Bismarck-Oberrealschule in Stettin from 1913 until he graduated from high school in 1925. He then studied ethnomusicology at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin with Erich Moritz von Hornbostel. After Hornbostel's emigration, he took over his courses. He was a member of the Nazi Student Association and the NSDAP.[1] Bose received his doctorate in Berlin in 1934 with a dissertation on the music of the Uitoto. In 1935 he set up a music department at the Institute for Sound Research at the Friedrich Wilhelm University,[2] which he headed until 1945. There he published a catalog of the collected music recordings.

In 1936 he went on a trip to Karelia with Yrjö von Grönhagen, head of department in the German Ahnenerbe Research Association, to meet Finnish “sorcerers” and shamans there and to collect and record their songs.[3] Since 1937/1938 he has been working on replicating Germanic lures for the research community, but encountered difficulties. Bose's tasks included collecting and maintaining instruments and songs from early Nordic music. He was supposed to provide reports on song compositions for Heinrich Himmler.

In 1939 he completed his habilitation with the work “Sound Styles as Racial Characteristics”.

Between July and December 1940, under the direction of Alfred Quellemalz, he was involved in a folk music collection in South Tyrol on behalf of the German Ahnenerbe Research Association. He had an AEG magnetophone K4 with which he made 461 recordings of folk songs and instrumental music in the area around Vipiteno and Brunico. 412 recordings were preserved after the end of the Second World War and are now in the archives of the Regensburg University Library.[5][6] During the Second World War he was called up for military service in 1940. He was taken prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1947.

After the Second World War he worked at the State Institute for Music Research in West Berlin. There he headed the history department from 1953 and the folklore department from 1966. From 1963 onwards, Fritz Bose published the “Yearbook for Musical Folk and Ethnology” and offered courses in ethnomusicology at the Technical University of Berlin,[7] initially as a lecturer and from 1966 as an honorary professor.

In 1959 he was one of the founders of the German Society for Oriental Music and was president of the society from 1967 to 1972. From 1965, together with Rolf Wilhelm Brednich and Ernst Klusen, he headed the newly founded Commission for Song, Music and Dance Research of the German Society for Folklore. In 1969 he became its managing director.

Fritz Bose is the father of the music educator, songwriter and choir conductor Jens-Andrees Bose.

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Music for you. Guide for music lovers and radio listeners. Scherl, Berlin 1934.

Songs of the peoples. The music records of the Institute for Sound Research at the University of Berlin. Catalog and introduction. M. Hesse, Berlin 1936.

Musical ethnology. Atlantis, Freiburg im Breisgau 1953.

Erwin Kroll (*3. February 1886 in German Eylau; † 7. March 1976 in Berlin) was a German pianist, composer, writer and music critic. Like his friend Otto Besch, Kroll was an East Prussian composer.

Life: Around 1900 Kroll came to Königsberg i. Pr. and attended the Royal Hufengymnasium with Otto Besch. He studied philology and music at Albertus University. He received his doctorate from ETA Hoffmann, who has always been revered in Königsberg. phil. and went into school service.

In 1919 he turned entirely to music and continued his studies in Munich, which he had begun with Otto Fiebach and Paul Scheinpflug. There he found an important teacher, especially in Hans Pfitzner, to whom he later dedicated a highly acclaimed book. In addition to his studies, Kroll was an accompanist at the Munich State Opera and secretary of the Hans Pfitzner Association for German Music, which Thomas Mann had called for to be founded.

In 1925 Kroll returned to East Prussia and became music critic for the Hartungsche Zeitung, and from 1930 onwards it was its features editor. Since 1934 he worked in Berlin as a critic and music writer. After the Second World War he headed the music department of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk in Berlin until 1953.

With his book, Kroll has created a monument to the (forgotten) importance of Königsberg as a music city.[3]