Emil Karl Gustav Alfred Mattiesen was a Baltic-German musician, music pedagogue, composer and philosopher.
14 Facts About Emil Mattiesen
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Emil Mattiesen composed lieder, song cycles, ballads, chamber music and organ music, but is better known for standard works in German on parapsychology.
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Emil Mattiesen was a professor of church music at the University of Rostock from 1929.
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Emil Mattiesen completed school with the Abitur in 1892 at the gymnasium in Mitau.
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Emil Mattiesen studied philosophy, natural sciences and music, first in Dorpat, then from 1893 at the University of Leipzig.
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Emil Mattiesen had to interrupt his studies due to illness in the fall of 1894, and continued in 1895, first again in Dorpat, and from October 1895 again in Leipzig, where he received a PhD in 1896, writing about the philosophical critique in the work of John Locke and George Berkeley.
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Emil Mattiesen wrote his first major book, completed in 1914 but not published until 1925: Der jenseitige Mensch.
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Emil Mattiesen founded an association for the publication of his works in Munich in 1921.
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Emil Mattiesen was a lecturer on church music at the Theological Faculty of the University of Rostock from 1929.
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Emil Mattiesen was a composer of Lieder, especially ballads, and of chamber and organ music.
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Emil Mattiesen's compositions were published by Henri Hinrichsen, on a recommendation by Hugo Wolf, including 17 Liederhefte.
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Emil Mattiesen composed lieder for the contralto Lula Mysz-Gmeiner, and accompanied her in performances.
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Emil Mattiesen researched and published in the field of parapsychology.
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Emil Mattiesen died in Rostock of leukemia shortly after the beginning of World War II.