Kurt Gudewill

[1] Pictorial material and an overview of the military career of his elder corvette captain, Lieutenant Colonel Max Hans August Gudewill (born in 1865) are handed down in the photo collection of the officers of the XIV Corps (German Empire) of the department Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe [de] of the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg [de].

[2] As the son of Major Curt Caspar Adolf Gudewill (1868–1914), who was a departmental commander of the field artillery regiment during the first month of World War I[3] and was wounded in the battle of Tienen in Belgium and died four days later,[4] and his wife Margaretha Louise Auguste (1875–1953), née Luther, 1911 in Itzehoe, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, he became the "Luther Side relatives" counted.

As his first music teacher he named Thiel's and Richard Hage's student[6] Heinrich Laubach, who was the founder of the Itzehoe Concert Choir.

[8] Gudewill attended the Kaiser-Karl-Schule [de],[4] a reform Realgymnasium in his home town until the Abitur 1929 From 1929 to 1935 Gudewill studied musicology as well as philosophy and phonetics at the University of Hamburg (among others with Walther Vetter and Wilhelm Heinitz) and 1930/31 at the Humboldt University of Berlin (among others with Arnold Schering, Friedrich Blume and Hans Joachim Moser).

In the same year he became a research assistant by Friedrich Blume and a regular lecturer for music[11] at the Musicological Institute in Kiel.

In 1944 he habilitated and applied to the Musicological Institute[12] of the Philosophical Faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel on the topic Die Formstrukturen der deutschen Liedtenores des 15. und 16.

Excerpts from his work were presented in the first volume (1948) of the journal Die Musikforschung under the title Zur Frage der Formstrukturen deutscher Liedtenores.

[16] From the summer semester 1946 Gudewill was again listed as part of the Kiel teaching staff in the "Personal- und Vorlesungsverzeichnis".

In 1952 he received an extraordinary professorship in Kiel while retaining his music lecturing position, and from 1960 to 1976 he was scientific counselor and Professor of musicology.

[18] He supervised several doctoral projects (Wulf Konold,[19] Karl-Heinz Reinfandt, Bernd Sponheuer among others) and a music-making circle for early music.

From 1948 on, he contributed to the first edition of the music encyclopaedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) published by his teacher Blume.