Theodor Kroyer

Theodor Kroyer (9 September 1873 – 12 January 1945) was a German musicologist.

Life
Kroyer was born in Munich. After he won his Abitur in 1893 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium (Munich) he studied at the University of Munich and the Akademie für Tonkunst in Munich. He received his doctorate in 1897 and habilitated in 1902 at the University of Munich, where he taught from 1907 as a non-permanent associate professor.

From 1920 to 1923 he was a professor of musicology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, where he devoted himself particularly to the study of early music. He was then a full professor of music at the University of Leipzig, where he was instrumental in establishing the Museum of Musical Instruments. In 1932 he became a professor of musicology at the University of Cologne, where he worked until his retirement in 1938. He founded the musicological series Kölner Beiträge zur Musikforschung and was editor of the first three volumes. In the series Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern he was responsible for the volume about Ludwig Senfl. His edition of the study score of Mozart's Haffner-Sinfonie is still in use today. He wrote biographies of Josef Rheinberger and Walter Courvoisier. Among his students were Karl Laux, Eugen Schmitz, Hans von Benda, Heinrich Strobel and Wolfgang Fortner.

Kroyer died in Wiesbaden at age 71.

Publications

 * Publikationen älterer Musik.
 * Walter Courvoisier. Mit einem Bildnis und vielen Notenbeispielen. 
 * Die Anfänge der Chromatik im italienischen Madrigal des XVI. Jahrhunderts ... Inaugural-Dissertation ... von Theodor Kroyer.
 * Publikationen älterer Musik. Veröffentlicht von der Abteilung zur Herausgabe älterer Musik bei der Deutschen Musikgesellschaft. Für die Leitung: Theodor Kroyer. 11 Jahr.
 * Theodor Kroyer-Festschrift zum sechzigsten Geburtstag am 9. September 1933
 * Die Anfange der Chromatik im italienischen Madrigal des XVI. Jahrhunderts. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Madrigals.
 * Ludwig Senfls Werke Eingeleitet u. hrsg. von Theodor Kroyer.

Literature

 * Thomas Phleps: Ein stiller, verbissener und zäher Kampf um Stetigkeit – Musikwissenschaft in NS-Deutschland und ihre vergangenheitspolitische Bewältigung, in Isolde v. Foerster et al. (ed.),  Musikforschung – Nationalsozialismus – Faschismus, Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488. online Uni Giessen