Albrecht von Massow (born in 1960) is a German

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

. Since 2000 he has held a professorship for 20th century music and

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at the joint Institute for Musicology Weimar-Jena.

Life

Born in Bonn, von Massow studied musicology, philosophy and modern German literature at the

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from 1982 to 1988. As a

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, he contributed to the . From 1988 to 1991 he did his doctorate under

Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (5 January 1919 – 30 August 1999) was a German musicologist and professor of historical musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg. Life Eggebrecht was born in Dresden. His father was a Protestant mini ...

. His dissertation dealt with "Half-world, culture and nature in Berg's ''

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'' and was graded ''

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''. From 1993 von Massow gave courses in analysis at the musicological seminar of the University of Freiburg and organised weekend seminars together with Eggebrecht as part of the

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. He was a founding member of the Society for . In 2000, Von Massow won his

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at the

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with the

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"Musikalisches Subjekt – Idee und Erscheinung in der Moderne".Resume on the website of the Institute for Musicology Weimar-Jena
/ref> Since then he has held a professorship for 20th century music and systematic musicology at the joint Institute for Musicology of the

Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (in German: Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) is an institution of music in Weimar, Germany. The Hochschule Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding o ...

and the

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. Von Massow is founder, supervisor and co-editor of the series ''KlangZeiten - Musik, Politik und Gesellschaft'', which has been published since 2004. Since 2012 he has been a member of the board of the Landscape Park

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Foundation. Since October 2017 he is president of the German Liszt Society.

Publications

* ''Halbwelt, Kultur und Natur in Alban Bergs Lulu''. (''Beihefte zum AfMw'' 33), Stuttgart 1992. * ''Musikalisches Subjekt. Idee und Erscheinung in der Moderne.'' Rombach, Freiburg in Br. 2001. * ''Ästhetik und Analyse'', in ''Musikalischer Sinn. Beiträge zu einer Philosophie der Musik'', edited by Alexander Becker and Matthias Vogel, Frankfurt 2007, . * Published with Michael Berg, Knut Holtsträter: ''Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit der Kunst. Ästhetisches und politisches Handeln in der DDR.'' Böhlau Verlag, Köln/Weimar/Wien 2007. ** includes: ''Probleme einer humanistischen Legitimation von Kunst.'' . * ''Musikalische Autonomieästhetik zwischen Geistes-, Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften'', in ''Laboratorium Aufklärung'' 1, edited by Olaf Breidbach, Daniel Fulda and Hartmut Rosa, Munich 2010, . * ''Gehversuche musikwissenschaftlicher Vergangenheitsbewältigung'', in ''Freiburger Universitätsblätter'', H. 195, 2012, . * Published with Thomas Grysko, Josephine Prkno: ''Ein Prisma ostdeutscher Musik: Der Komponist

Lothar Voigtländer Lothar Voigtländer (born 3 September 1943) is a German composer. Life Voigtländer was born in Leisnig. He received his formative musical education between 1954 and 1962 as a choirboy and later as choir prefect in the Dresdner Kreuzchor under R ...

.'' Böhlau Verlag, Köln/Weimar/Wien 2015. * ''Die unterschätzte Kunst. Musik seit der Ersten Aufklärung.''''Die unterschätzte Kunst : Musik seit der Ersten Aufklärung''
on WorldCat Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2019.

References

External links

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Profil auf der Website des Instituts für Musikwissenschaft Weimar-Jena
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Massow, Albrecht von 1960 births Living people Writers from Bonn 21st-century German musicologists Academic staff of the University of Jena