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Egon Voss (born 7 November 1938) 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 ...
, who is particularly known for his contributions to
Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...
research.


Life and career

Born in
Magdeburg Magdeburg (; ) is the Capital city, capital of the Germany, German States of Germany, state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is on the Elbe river. Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archbishopric of Mag ...
, Voss studied
musicology 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, ...
and
German studies German studies is an academic field that researches, documents and disseminates German language, literature, and culture in its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies therefore often focus on German culture, German h ...
at the Universities in Detmold, Kiel, Münster und Saarbrücken. He was awarded his doctorate in 1968. For many years he worked as an assistant and editor of the Wagner-Gesamtausgabe. Voss not only published a number of works and life documents by Wagner, Bach and Schumann, but was also otherwise active in researching the history of music theatre.


Books

* ''Richard Wagner – Dokumentarbiographie'', Munich: Goldmann 1982 * ''Wagner und kein Ende. Betrachtungen und Studien'',''Wagner und kein Ende : Betrachtungen und Studien''
on WorldCat Zürich: Atlantis 1996


Essays

* ''Zu Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 31 Op. 110'', in ''Die Musikforschung'', vol. 23 (1970), * ''Beethoven's ''Eroica'' und die Gattung der Sinfonie'', in ''Bericht über den Internationalen Musikwissenschaftlichen Kongress (1971)'', * ''Zur Frage der Wiederholung von Scherzo und Trio in Beethovens fifth Synfony'', in ''Die Musikforschung'', vol. 33 (1980), * ''Ein unbekannter Komponist? Zur neuen Richard-Wagner-Gesamtausgabe'', in ''NZ
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik The New Journal of Music (, and abbreviated to NZM) is a music magazine, co-founded in Leipzig by Robert Schumann, his teacher and future father-in law Friedrich Wieck, Julius Knorr and his close friend Ludwig Schuncke. Its first issue appe ...
'', volume 144 (1983), S. 34f. * ''Ergebnisse und Aufgaben der Wagnerforschung'', in ''Bericht über den Internationalen Musikwissenschaftlichen Kongress Bayreuth 1981 (1984)'', * ''„Überall die andaurende Trommete von Händels Ruhm“. Eine Betrachtung über den Erfolg des
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'', in ''NZ
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik The New Journal of Music (, and abbreviated to NZM) is a music magazine, co-founded in Leipzig by Robert Schumann, his teacher and future father-in law Friedrich Wieck, Julius Knorr and his close friend Ludwig Schuncke. Its first issue appe ...
'', volume 146 (1985), * ''Ein Emigrant im eigenen Land.
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zum achtzigsten Geburtstag'', in ''NZ'', vol. 146 (1985), 7/8, * ''Auch eine Unvollendete. Richard Wagners wiederaufgefundenes Sinfonie-Fragment in E-Dur WWV 35'', in ''NZ'', vol. 149 (1988), 11, * ''Wagner und Bruckner. Ihre persönliche Beziehung anhand der überlieferten Zeugnisse'', in ''Anton Bruckner. Studien zu Werk und Wirkung. Walter Wiora zum 30. Dezember 1986'', edited by Christoph-Hellmut Mahling, Tutzing 1988, * ''Schwierigkeiten im Umgang mit dem Ballett „ Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus“ by
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und
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'', in ''
Archiv für Musikwissenschaft The ''Archiv für Musikwissenschaft'' is a quarterly German-English-speaking trade magazine devoted to music history and historical musicology, which publishes articles by well-known academics and young scholars. It was founded in 1918 as the suc ...
'', Jg. 53 (1996), * ''Wagner-Zitate in Bruckners Third Symphony? Ein Beitrag zum Begriff des Zitats in der Musik'', in ''Die Musikforschung'', Jg. 49 (1996), * ''Die „schwarze und die weiße Flagge“. Zur Entstehung von Wagners „
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“'', in ''Archiv für Musikwissenschaft'', Jg. 54 (1997), * ''Einflüsse Rossinis und Bellinis auf das Werk Wagners'', in ''Richard Wagner und seine „Lehrmeister“. Bericht der Tagung am Musikwissenschaftlichen Institut der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 6./7. Juni 1997. Egon Voss zum 60. Geburtstag'', edited by Christoph-Hellmut Mahling and Kristina Pfarr, Mainz 1999, * ''Krise der Symphonie um 1850: ja oder nein? Was spricht gegen die These von
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und was dafür?'', in ''Aspekte historischer und systematischer Musikforschung (2002)'', * ''Versagt die Musikwissenschaft vor der Musik Richard Wagners?'', in ''Der „Komponist“ Richard Wagner im Blick der aktuellen Musikwissenschaft. Symposion Würzburg 2000'', edited by
Ulrich Konrad Ulrich Aloysius Konrad (born 14 August 1957) is a German musicologist and professor at the Institute for Music Research of the University of Würzburg. He is considered an expert on European music of the 17th to 20th centuries, especially the work ...
and Egon Voss, Wiesbaden 2003, * ''Sprechen über Musik – Richard Wagner'', in ''Musik und Verstehen (2004)'', * ''„Oper im Kirchengewande.“ Zur Rezeption von Verdis „Requiem“ im deutschen Sprachraum'', in ''Das Bild der italienischen Oper in Deutschland (2004)'', * ''Prima e seconda prattica? Beethovens Musik für Bläser und ihre Position im Gesamtwerk'', in ''Die Musikforschung'', Jg. 58 (2005), * ''Zwischen Partitur und Aufführungsmaterial oder: Opernedition und Werkbegriff (Wagner)'', in ''Opernedition (2005)'', * ''Die klassische Symphonie. Haydns Londoner Symphonien im Überblick'', in ''Haydns Londoner Symphonien (2007)'', * ''Sozialismus und „freie Entwicklung der Kunst“.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963) was a German composer. A major figure of the musical life of post-war Germany, he has been described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century. Life Born in Munich, the son ...
und seine Oper „Simplicius Simplicissimus“'', in ''Musik-Konzepte'', vol. 147 (2010), * ''„So pocht das Schicksal an die Pforte!“ Überlegungen zu Anton Schindlers Äußerungen über den Beginn of Beethoven Symphony No. 5'', in ''Bonner Beethoven-Studien'', vol. 11 (2014),


Publications

* Richard Wagner, ''
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (; "The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"), WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner. It is the longest opera commonly performed, taking nearly four and a half hours, not counting two breaks between acts, and is traditio ...
'', Mainz: Schott 1979, 1983, 1987 (', volume 9) * Ludwig van Beethoven, ''Kammermusik mit Blasinstrumenten'', Munich: Henle 2008 (', division 6, volume 1)


References


External links

* * "Egon Voss" in ''
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'' (''MGG''; "Music in the Past and Present") is a German music encyclopedia. It is among the world's most comprehensive encyclopedias of music history and musicology, on account of its scope, content, wealth ...
'', 2nd edition, edited by
Ludwig Finscher Ludwig Finscher (14 March 193030 June 2020) was a German musicologist. He was a professor of music history at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1995 and editor of the encyclopedia '' Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''. He is respect ...
, volume 17 (2007),
Egon Voss
on deutsche-digitale-bibliothek * {{DEFAULTSORT:Voss, Egon 1938 births Living people Writers from Magdeburg Beethoven scholars 20th-century German musicologists