Albrecht Roeseler (29 January 1930 – 6 August 1994) was a German violinist,

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 ...

and journalist. From 1973 to 1993 he was responsible for the headline of the ''

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''.

Life

Roeseler was born in 1930 in Berlin as son of the publishing director Johannes Roeseler and his wife Katharina, ''née'' Storbeck. He first attended the in

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and from 1943 up to the

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in 1948, the at Schloss Bieberstein near Fulda. From 1948 to 1950 he studied violin with Max Strub and

music theory Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "Elements of music, ...

with

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and

Johannes Driessler Johannes Driessler (26 January 1921 – 3 May 1998) was a German composer, organist, and lecturer. He composed operas, chamber music, and especially sacred music both vocal and for organ. Life and work Driessler was born in Friedrichsthal on ...

at the Nordwestdeutschen Musikakademie Detmold. In 1950 he passed the state music teacher examination in the subject violin. From 1950 to 1956 he 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 English at the

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and with the help of a

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, at the

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. In Indiana

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and Paul Nettl were among his teachers. In the 1950s he was also violinist in the and in the "Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra" as well as in the

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festival orchestra. In 1952/53 he also taught at the "Conservatory John Petersen" in

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. In 1957 he was appointed by

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at the philosophical faculty of the FU Berlin with the dissertation ''Studien zum Instrumentarium in den Vokalwerken von

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. Die obligaten Instrumente in den Psalmen Davids und in den Symphoniae Sacrae I'' which granted him his

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Roeseler then worked first as

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in publishing houses, most recently in

Piper Verlag Piper Verlag is a German publisher based in Munich, printing both fiction and non-fiction works. It currently prints over 200 new paperback titles per year. Authors published by the company include Andreas von Bülow and Sara Paretsky. It is ow ...

. From 1973 to 1993 he was head of the feature section of the ''

'' in Munich. Roeseler died in Haar (near Munich) at the age of 64.

Publications

* with Wolf Loeckle (ed.): ''Musikhochschulen in Deutschland – wie gut sind sie?''. ConBrio-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Regensburg 1994, . * with Wolf Loeckle (ed.): ''Franz Schubert – heute?''. ConBrio-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Regensburg 1994, . * (Ed.): ''Eine kleine Lachmusik. Musikeranekdoten aus unserer Zeit''. With 6 linocuts by

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. 6th edition, new edition, Piper, Munich among others (1990), (first edition 1971). * ''Grosse Geiger unseres Jahrhunderts''. Paperback edition reviewed and expanded by Norbert Hornig, Piper, Munich among others 1996, (first edition 1987).

Literature

* Bruno Jahn (collaborator.): ''Die deutschsprachige Presse. Ein biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch''.''Die deutschsprachige Presse. Ein biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch''
on WorldCat Vol. 2: ''M–Z''. Saur, Berlin 2005, , . *

Joachim Kaiser Joachim Kaiser (18 December 1928 – 11 May 2017) was a German musicologist, critic, and journalist. He worked as a senior editor and cultural critic for the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' from 1959, contributing reviews and articles on music, literatur ...

: ''Ein überlegener Charakter'' (Nachruf). In ''

'', 8 August 1994, . * Hans-Michael Körner (ed.): '' Große Bayerische Biographische Enzyklopädie (BBE)''. Vol. 3: ''P–Z''. Saur, Munich 2005, , . *

Rudolf Vierhaus Rudolf Vierhaus (29 October 1922 – 13 November 2011) was a German historian who mainly researched the Early modern period. He had been a professor at the newly founded Ruhr University Bochum since 1964. From 1971, he was director of the in Gött ...

(ed.): ''

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(DBE)''. Vol. 8: ''Poethen – Schlüter''. 2nd revised and extended edition, K. G. Saur, Munich 2007, , pp. 488f.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roeseler, Albrecht 1930 births 1994 deaths Writers from Berlin German music critics 20th-century German journalists German columnists Literary editors 20th-century German musicologists German classical violinists German male classical violinists 20th-century German male musicians