Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft
Journal for Musicology
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German scholarly music journal.
The journal was founded in 1918 as an organ of the Deutsche Musikgesellschaft (from 1934, of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft), and published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, in seventeen volumes, 1918-35. Its editor from inception to his emigration in 1933 was Alfred Einstein, after which Max Schneider took up the editorship until it closed in 1935. It was a leading international forum for serious musicological research.
The Journal and Schenker
Schenker received one letter from Alfred Einstein under the letterhead of the journal (OC B/139, March 30, 1930), and published in volume xii (April 1930), p. 446 (a copy is preserved as OJ 20/9), a rejoinder to an article by Beninger. Oswald Jonas published an article in the October 1934 issue, "Beethovens Skizzen und ihre Gestaltung zum Werk."