Achim Hofer (born in 1955) 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 ...

music educator Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do origina ...

and University professor.

Life

Born in

Oberhausen Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...

, Hofer studied music,

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 ...

and educational science at the

University of Paderborn Paderborn University () is a public research university in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter semester 2016/2017 in 62 different degree programmes. ...

. After the first and second

Staatsexamen The ("state examination" or "exam by state"; pl.: ''Staatsexamina'') is a German government licensing examination that future physicians, dentists, physical therapists, teachers, research librarians, archivists, pharmacists, food chemists, psyc ...

, Hofer 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, ...

at what is now the

Hochschule für Musik Detmold The Hochschule für Musik Detmold is a university-level music school situated in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Academics The Hochschule offers performance degrees in composition, all orchestral instruments, piano, voice, opera, ar ...

and at the

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz () is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 a ...

, where he received his doctorate in 1987 with a dissertation entitled ''Studien zur Geschichte des Militärmarsches''. From 1981 to 1999 he taught music education in the teaching profession, from 1994 also as a lecturer at the

University of Dortmund TU Dortmund University () is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's and master's degree programs. It is situate ...

and at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. In 1999 he was appointed to the chair for musicology and music education on the

Landau Landau (), officially Landau in der Pfalz (, ), is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990), a long ...

campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau, where he is head of the Institute for Musicology and Music in the Department of Cultural and Social Sciences. He is a member of the faculty council. Hofer's research focuses on the early history of

harmonie is a German word that, in the context of the history of music, designates an ensemble of wind instruments (usually about five to eight players) employed by an aristocratic patron, particularly during the Classical era of the 18th century. The Harmo ...

music, wind and brass music and

military music A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Militaries are typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with their members identifiable by a ...

in the Nazi period.

Work

* ''Blasmusikforschung''. * ''Die "Königlich Preußische Armeemarschsammlung" 1817 - 1839''.''Die "Königlich Preußische Armeemarschsammlung" 1817 - 1839''
on GoogleBooks

References

External links

* * Universität Koblenz-Landau
Prof. Dr. Achim Hofer
Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musik {{DEFAULTSORT:Hofer, Achim 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists German music educators 1955 births Living people People from Oberhausen