Elmar Budde (born 13 June 1935) 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 ...

. He studied at the

Universität der Künste Berlin The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...

Training and career

Born in

Bochum Bochum (, ; ; ; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 372,348 (April 2023), it is the sixth-largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous German federa ...

, Budde studied piano and school music at the

Hochschule für Musik Freiburg The Hochschule für Musik Freiburg ("University of Music Freiburg or Freiburg Conservatory of Music") is a public music academy subsidized by the State of Baden-Württemberg for academic research and artistic and pedagogical training in music. ...

where he passed his state examination in 1961. After subsequent studies in musicology and Germanistic at the

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg ...

, he received his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

in 1967 with a thesis on the early

Anton Webern Anton Webern (; 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist. His music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyric poetry, lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonality, aton ...

. 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 The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...

). His areas of research include the history of

musical composition Musical composition can refer to an Originality, original piece or work of music, either Human voice, vocal or Musical instrument, instrumental, the musical form, structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new pie ...

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 Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...

Honour

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 ...

, Susanne Fontaine,

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 Universit ...

and

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 ...

(editors): Töne – Farben – Formen. Über Musik und die Bildenden Künste, Festschrift für Elmar Budde zum 60. Geburtstag, Laaber 1995, 2nd edition 1998

Bibliography

* ''Anton Weberns Lieder op. 3''. * ''Schuberts Liederzyklen: ein musikalischer Werkführer''.''Schuberts Liederzyklen: ein musikalischer Werkführer''
on GoogleBooks

External links

Elmar Budde in WorldCat
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Budde, Elmar Musicologists from Berlin 20th-century German musicologists Schubert scholars Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts 1935 births Living people People from Bochum