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Elisabeth Schmierer
Elisabeth Schmierer (born in 1955) is a German musicologist. She researches and teaches at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Career Born in Tübingen, Schmierer graduated from high school in Freudenstadt and initially studied school music at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. This was followed by studies in musicology, history and art history at the University of Kiel, where she also received her doctorate in 1989. Her habilitation was completed at the Technische Universität Berlin. She has been teaching at Essen since 2000. She is married to Matthias Brzoska. Publications * ''Die Orchesterlieder Gustav Mahlers''. Kassel: Bärenreiter 1991 (Dissertation). * ''Die Tragédies lyriques Niccolò Piccinnis. Zur Synthese französischer und italienischer Oper im späten 18. Jahrhundert''. Laaber: 1999 (Habilitationsschrift). * ''Kleine Geschichte der Oper''. Stuttgart: Reclam 2001. * ''Komponisten-Porträts''. Stuttgart: Reclam 2003, 2010 * ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, formal sciences and Computational musicology, computer science. Musicology is traditionally divided into three branches: music history, systematic musicology, and ethnomusicology. Historical musicologists study the history of musical traditions, the origins of works, and the biographies of composers. Ethnomusicologists draw from anthropology (particularly field research) to understand how and why people make music. Systematic musicology includes music theory, aesthetics, Music education, pedagogy, musical acoustics, the science and technology of Organology, musical instruments, and the musical implications of physiology, psychology, sociology, philosophy and computing. Cognitive musicology is the set of phenomena surrounding the cognitive m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Brzoska
Matthias Brzoska (born 24 June 1955) is a German musicologist. He researched and taught at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Career Brzoska studied musicology in Marburg and Berlin with Reinhold Brinkmann, Sieghart Döhring and Carl Dahlhaus and French philology with Hermann Hofer. From 1981 to 1986 he was an assistant lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts, and received his doctorate in 1986 at Technische Universität Berlin with a dissertation on Franz Schreker. From 1987 to 1990 he worked in Paris on a research project financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 1992 he habilitated at the University of Bayreuth with a study on the idea of a Gesamtkunstwerk. He then became professor of musicology at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. He has been Emeritus since 2022. His research focuses on opera, music and intertextual relations between music and other arts. He undertook various research projects together with his wife, musicologist Eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Births
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21st-century German Musicologists
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German Women Musicologists
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Elmar Budde
Elmar Budde (born 13 June 1935) is a German musicologist. He studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Training and career Born in Bochum, Budde studied piano and school music at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg where he passed his state examination in 1961. After subsequent studies in musicology and Germanistic at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, he received his doctorate in 1967 with a thesis on the early Anton Webern. In 1972 he was appointed Professor of musicology at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Berlin (today: Berlin University of the Arts). His areas of research include the history of musical composition from the Middle Ages to the present; the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of performance practice and interpretation and questions and problems of the interdisciplinary (music - painting - architecture) and finally the music of Franz Schubert. Honour * Elisabeth Schmierer, Susanne Fontaine, Werner Grünzweig an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Grünzweig
Werner Grünzweig (born 1959) is an Austrian musicologist and archivist. Life Born in Graz, Grünzweig first studied piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, and from 1984 musicology and American studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He graduated with an M.A. in 1989. In 1995 he was awarded the Dr. phil. with the work ''Ahnung und Wissen, Geist und Form : Alban Berg als Musikschriftsteller und Analytiker der Musik Arnold Schönbergs'' (published 2000 at the Universal Edition Vienna). Since 1994 Grünzweig has been head of the music archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin. at the Academy of Arts. Retrieved 12 September 2024. Selected publications * Werner Grünzweig, Gesine Sc ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanne Fontaine
Susanne Fontaine (born 31 January 1961) is a German musicologist and university teacher. Life Born in Merzig/Saarland, Fontaine studied musicology, Germanistic and philosophy from 1980 until 1986 at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, School music at the Universität der Künste Berlin as well as musicology and Germanistic at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin. From 1992 to 1998 Fontaine was a research assistant at the Hochschule der Künste; in 1999 she received a habilitation scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft on the topic ''The figure of Maria Magdalena in the music of the 17th and 18th century''. In 2000 and 2001 she held the professorship for musicology at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. In the winter semester 2002/03 Fontaine was a lecturer at the musicology department of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. In 2003 she was appointed professor at the University of Potsdam an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niccolò Piccinni
Niccolò Piccinni (; 16 January 1728 – 7 May 1800) was an Italian composer of symphonies, sacred music, chamber music, and opera. Although he is somewhat obscure today, Piccinni was one of the most popular composers of opera—particularly the Neapolitan opera buffa—of the Classical period. Life Piccinni was born in Bari, in the Apulia region. From the age of fourteen, he was educated at the Conservatory of San Onofrio by Leonardo Leo and Francesco Durante,. thanks to the intervention of the Bishop of Bari (his father, although himself a musician, was opposed to his son following the same career). Piccinni's first opera, ''Le donne dispettose'', was produced in 1755 with the patronage of Prince Vintimille. In 1760 he composed, at Rome, the ''chef d'œuvre'' of his early life, '' La Cecchina, ossia la buona Figliuola'', an ''opera buffa'' with a libretto by Carlo Goldoni, which "enjoyed a two-year run in Rome and was played in all the important European capitals. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic music, Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the Modernism (music), modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect, which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi Germany, Nazi era. After 1945 his compositions were rediscovered by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century. Born in Kingdom of Bohemia, Bohemia (then part of the Austrian Empire) to Jewish parents of humble origins, the German-speaking Mahler displayed his musical gifts at an early age. After graduating from the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technische Universität Berlin
(TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first German university to adopt the name "Technische Universität" (university of technology). The university alumni and staff includes several United States National Academies, US National Academies members, two National Medal of Science laureates, the creator of the first fully functional programmable (electromechanical) computer, Konrad Zuse, and ten Nobel Prize laureates. TU Berlin is a member of TU9, an incorporated society of the largest and most notable German institutes of technology and of the Top International Managers in Engineering network, which allows for student exchanges between leading engineering schools. It belongs to the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research. The TU Berlin is home of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
