Born in Aachen, Bücken, son of a director of a textile factory,[1] first began studying law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
The "Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft" ("Bücken-Psalter"), which he published in 1927-1934 and with some contributions of his own, is important and was intended to support similar projects in literature and art studies.
Against unconditional intellectualism - music politics as a point of view,[1] in which he spoke of the "heavy struggle of our ethnic-racial forces with other national powers".
In the Soviet occupation zone, Bücken's Musik der Deutschen (1941) was included in the List of literature to be discarded [de] in 1946.
[9] His book Musik aus deutscher Art (Schaffstein, Cologne 1934), published in 1934, was included in the list of literature to be discarded in the GDR in 1952/3.