Traditional - Black Velvet Band

Science of Kiel University, from 1964 - University of Saarland. In 1961-64 German Commission of UNESCO, in 1962-63 lectured at Columbia University in New York. Organizer of the publication “Music in Old and New Europe” (Die Musik im alten und neuen Europa, 1957), hands. periodic ed."Musikalische Zeitfragen", 1956-64). In his writings V. proceeds from the principles of the so-called. comparative musicology, seeking to establish common elements in folklore of Sec. peoples, and considers the history of music as part of the overall history of culture, but in the understanding of the histor. The process remains idealistic. positions. He also wrote a monograph on A. Bruckner (1935, 1957).