Marie Jahoda über ihre Tochter Lotte Lazarsfeld, verheiratete Bailyn, und den Musikwahrnehmungskurs

Wien, um 1935

When Lotte [Lazarsfeld, married Bailyn] was about 5 or so, Fritz [Jahoda] and I organised and ran a course for about a dozen children aged 5–8 in music appreciation. Lotte and Franz [Jahoda] participated together with children of families we knew. I cannot remember whether we did it for love only, or also for money; nor how the idea for it arose. Perhaps because I had learned so much from Fritz; before I went to an opera, he went over the score with me, playing the motifs as various instruments picked them up, explaining, etc. In any case, this is what happened; we concentrated on Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin.1 I explained that music could make you feel different things, Fritz played examples. Every composer had his own language; after a while, they could identify the composer of an unknown typical piece. It was most enjoyable for Fritz and me.


Marie Jahoda Albu: Reconstructions. [Keymer, Sussex: Published by the author] 1996, S. 44–45.

1 Aufzählung klassischer Komponisten und Pianisten: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salzburg 1756 – Wien 1791), Franz Schubert (Lichtental [zu Wien] 1797 – Wien 1828), Ludwig van Beethoven (Bonn 1770 – Wien 1827) und Frédéric Chopin (d.i. Frederyk Chopin; Żelazowa-Wola bei Warschau 1810 – Paris 1849). Anmerkung Reinhard Müller.

© Reinhard Müller -- Graz, im Oktober 2006

LOTTE BAILYN
Beobachtungsobjekt
Musikwahrnehmungskurs
Trennung
Charles Bailyn
John Bailyn