Joseph Müller-Blattau

Joseph Maria Müller-Blattau (21 May 1895 – 21 October 1976) was a German musicologist and National Socialist cultural official.

He is regarded as a "nestor of Saarbrücken musicology"[1] but also as a "singer of a musical seizure of power"[2] because of his activities in National Socialism.

[3] In 1920, his doctorate in musicology at the University of Freiburg was completed with the work Grundzüge einer Geschichte der Fuge.

[9][10] Also in 1936, he played an inglorious role in the removal of Wilibald Gurlitt by Friedrich Metz, the National Socialist rector of the University of Freiburg.

Since the winter semester of 1952/53, Müller-Blattau had been lecturing at the University of Saarland as a professor with full teaching responsibilities.

[12] As a result, Vieweg-Verlag [de] pasted over numerous parts of the current fourth unaltered edition (1944), which deal with B. about "Genius der Rasse" (p. 7), and the book could be sold for example in 1947 at the Musikhaus Stammer in Leipzig, as the corresponding stamped copies prove.