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Klaus Hortschansky
Klaus Hortschansky (7 May 1935 – 16 May 2016) was a German musicologist. Life and work Born in Weimar, Hortschansky studied musicology from 1953 to 1966 in Weimar, Berlin and Kiel. In 1965 he became an assistant at the Musicological Institute in Kiel, where he received his doctorate in 1966 from Anna Amalie Abert with a thesis on the topic ''Parody and Borrowing in the Work of Christoph Willibald Gluck''. From 1968 he worked as an assistant at the Musicological Institute in Frankfurt am Main before being appointed director of the Musicological Seminar at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster in 1984. Hortschansky's main areas of research were the music of the Franco-Flemish School and operas of the 18th century. From 1992 to 1997 he was president of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, furthermore he was editor of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe, vice president of the Haydn-Institut in Cologne and co-editor of the Gluck-Gesamtausgabe. Hortschansky retired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicology
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some music research is scientific in focus (psychological, sociological, acoustical, neurological, computational). Some geographers and anthropologists have an interest in musicology so the social sciences also have an academic interest. A scholar who participates in musical research is a musicologist. Musicology traditionally is divided in three main branches: historical musicology, systematic musicology and ethnomusicology. Historical musicologists mostly study the history of the western classical music tradition, though the study of music history need not be limited to that. Ethnomusicologists draw from anthropology (particularly field research) to understand how and why people make music. Systematic musicology includes music theory, aestheti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schlesien
Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split into two main subregions, Lower Silesia in the west and Upper Silesia in the east. Silesia has a diverse culture, including architecture, costumes, cuisine, traditions, and the Silesian language (minority in Upper Silesia). Silesia is along the Oder River, with the Sudeten Mountains extending across the southern border. The region contains many historical landmarks and UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It is also rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. The largest city and Lower Silesia's capital is Wrocław; the historic capital of Upper Silesia is Opole. The biggest metropolitan area is the Upper Silesian metropolitan area, the centre of which is Katowice. Parts of the Czech city of Ostrava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Friedrich Händel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition and by composers of the Italian Baroque. In turn, Handel's music forms one of the peaks of the "high baroque" style, bringing Italian opera to its highest development, creating the genres of English oratorio and organ concerto, and introducing a new style into English church music. He is consistently recognized as one of the greatest composers of his age. Handel started three commercial opera companies to supply the English nobility with Italian opera. In 1737, he had a physical break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Musik In Geschichte Und Gegenwart
''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik (MGG)'' is one of the world's most comprehensive encyclopedias of music history and musicology, on account of its scope, content, wealth of research areas, and reference to related subjects. It has appeared in two self-contained printed editions and a continuously updated and expanding digital edition, titled ''MGG Online''. Created by Karl Vötterle, the founder of Bärenreiter-Verlag, and Friedrich Blume, professor of musicology at Kiel University, the first edition was published by Bärenreiter-Verlag in Kassel from 1949 through 1986, comprising a total of 17 volumes (''MGG1''; numbered in columns) and reprinted in paperback in 1989. As early as 1989, its new editor Ludwig Finscher began planning a second, revised edition with 29 volumes, which were published from 1994 through 2008 in cooperation with the publisher J.B. Metzler (''MGG2''; with a topical part in 9 volumes and a persons part in 17 volumes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 respected internationally as an authority on the history of Western Classical music from the 16th century to contemporary classical music, with a view on music in cultural, social, historical and philosophical context, in a clear language for both specialists and lay readers. Life and career Born in Kassel, the youngest of five siblings, Finscher studied musicology, English, German and philosophy at the University of Göttingen from 1949 to 1954. Students at the same time included Gerhard Croll, Carl Dahlhaus and Rudolf Stephan. He earned a doctorate with a thesis about the masses and motets by Loyset Compère, with advisor Rudolf Gerber. From 1954, he worked for the Deutsches Volksliedarchiv (German archive of folk songs) in Freib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (''West German Broadcasting Cologne''; WDR, ) is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD. As well as contributing to the output of the national television channel '' Das Erste'', WDR produces the regional television service WDR Fernsehen (formerly known as WDF and West3) and six regional radio networks. History Origins The Westdeutsche Funkstunde AG (WEFAG) was established on 15 September 1924. There was a substantial purge of left wing staff following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. This included Ernst Hardt, Hans Stein and Walter Stern. WDR was created in 1955, when Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) was split into Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) – covering Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, and Hamburg – and Westdeutscher Rundfunk, responsible for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordkirchen
Nordkirchen is a municipality in the district of Coesfeld, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Nordkirchen's most famous site is Schloss Nordkirchen, built in the 18th century for a local bishop and known as the Versailles of Westphalia, as it is the largest residence in that part of Germany. Nordkirchen is known as location of a transmission site for medium wave for transmitting the program of Deutschlandfunk Deutschlandfunk (DLF, ''Broadcast Germany'') is a public-broadcasting radio station in Germany, concentrating on news and current affairs. It is one of the four national radio channels produced by Deutschlandradio. History Broadcasting in th ..., the Nordkirchen transmitter. Mayor The mayor is Dietmar Bergmann. He was elected in 2009 and reelected in 2014 and 2020. See also * Arenberg-Nordkirchen References Coesfeld (district) {{Coesfeld-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Gutknecht
Dieter Gutknecht (born in 1942) is a German musicologist and former University music director. Life Gutknecht first began his music studies with a focus on performance practice early music, violin and conducting at the State Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Meanwhile he studied musicology, Germanistik and philosophy in Cologne and Vienna. He passed his state examination in 1968 and his doctorate in 1971. His research topic was ''Investigations on the melodic theory of the Huguenot Psalter'', using the computer. In 1992 Gutknecht habilitated with studies on the history of early music performance practice (1993,1997). Gutknecht was music director of the University of Cologne. At the same time he taught as a lecturer at the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne from 1970 until his retirement in 2008. Gutknecht published numerous articles on Historically informed performance, ornaments as well as personal articles in ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günter Fleischhauer
Günter Fleischhauer (8 July 1928 – 12 February 2002) was a German musicologist. Life Born in Magdeburg, Fleischhauer attended the . From 1947 to 1952, he studied classical philology with , music education with Fritz Reuter and musicology with Max Schneider at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. In 1952, he became a research assistant at the Institute for Music Education there. From 1955 to 1958, he held a lectureship in continuo and score playing. In 1960, he was awarded a doctorate with the dissertation ''Die Musikergenossenschaften im hellenistischrömischen Altertum. Contributions to the Musical Life of the Romans''. In 1962, he became a lecturer in historical musicology at the Institute of Musicology. After the , he was demoted to Lector in 1969. In 1979 he submitted the B Dissertation ''Methodologische Probleme der Musikhistoriographie, dargestellt an zwei ausgewählten Beispielen, die Musikkulturen der Etrusker und der Römer und die Telemann-Forschung'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music. He held important positions in Leipzig, Sorau, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of that city's five main churches. While Telemann's career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died less than two years after their marriage, and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving him. Telemann is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving oeuvre. He was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time, and he was compared favourabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Loos
Helmut Loos (born 5 July 1950) is a German musicologist and emeritus scholar. Life Born in Niederkrüchten, Loos studied music education from 1971 to 1974 and musicology, art history and philosophy from 1974 to 1980 at the University of Bonn. He received his doctorate in 1980 and was a research assistant at the Musicology Department of the University of Bonn from 1981 to 1989. In 1989 he completed his habilitation. From 1989 to 1993 Loos was director of the Institute for German Music in the East in Bergisch Gladbach. In April 1993 he was appointed to the chair of historical musicology at the Technical University of Chemnitz. From October 2001 to March 2017 he held a professorship at the . His research focuses on the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, religious music and the music-cultural relations of Germany with Central and Eastern Europe. Publications * ''Zur Klavierübertragung von Werken für und mit Orchester des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Ein Beitrag zur Ges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller
Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller (21 July 1929 in Gelsenkirchen) is a German musicologist. Life and career Niemöller studied musicology at the University of Cologne from 1950 to 1955. Afterwards he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Nicolaus Wollick and in 1964 his habilitation with ''Untersuchungen zu Musikpflege und Musikunterricht in den deutschen Lateinschulen vom ausgehenden Middle Ages bis um 1600''. In 1969 he was appointed professor. From 1975 to 1983, Niemöller was director of the musicological seminar of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and from 1983 to 1994 director of the musicological institute of the University of Cologne. Niemöller was chairman of the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne and the Robert Schumann Research Centre in Düsseldorf as well as president of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung. Since 1976, Niemöller has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts The North Rhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
