Friedhelm Brusniak (born 1 October 1952) is a German

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Life

Born in

Korbach Korbach (), officially the Hanseatic City of Korbach (German language, German: Hansestadt Korbach), is the district seat of Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany. It is over a thousand years old and is located on the German Timber-Frame Ro ...

, Brusniak visited the humanistic branch of the . After graduating from high school, he studied school music at the

Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (, HfMDK) is a state Hochschule for music, theatre and dance in Frankfurt and is the only one of its kind in the Federal State of Hesse. It was founded in 1938. At present around 900 studen ...

from 1971. His teachers were

Branka Musulin Branka Musulin (6 August 1917 - 1 January 1975) was a German-Croatian classical pianist and teacher. Life Musulin was born in Croatia in Zagreb. As from the age of eight, she studied with celebrated Croatian pianist Svetislav Stančić in Zagr ...

and Poldi Mildner (piano),

Richard Rudolf Klein Richard Rudolf Klein (21 May 1921 in Nußdorf/Pfalz – 17 December 2011) was a German composer, musician, and teacher. His compositional output is diverse, including nursery rhymes and music for children, choral music and hymns, incidental music, ...

(sound composition) and

Helmuth Rilling Helmuth Rilling (born 29 May 1933) is a German choral conductor and an academic teacher. He is the founder of the Gächinger Kantorei (1954), the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (1965), the Oregon Bach Festival (1970), the Internationale Bachakade ...

(choir direction). He studied musicology with Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht and

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 respect ...

as well as history at the

Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University Frankfurt () is a public research university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt ...

. In 1975/77, he passed the First

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 ...

for teaching at grammar schools. In 1980, he was awarded a

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He completed his practical training at the Studienseminar Kassel I (Gymnasium Bad Arolsen). After the Second State Examination in 1980 he was promoted from 1981 to 1988 then at the Chair of Musicology of the

University of Augsburg The University of Augsburg () is a university located in the Universitätsviertel section of Augsburg, Germany. It was founded in 1970 and is organized in 8 Faculties. The University of Augsburg is a relatively young campus university with a ...

(

Franz Krautwurst Franz Xaver Krautwurst (7 August 1923 – 30 November 2015) was a German musicologist and academic teacher. Life Franz Krautwurst was born in Munich on August 7, 1923. He was educated at the University of Music and Theatre Munich from 1939 thr ...

). In 1988/89, he received a habilitation scholarship from the

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. He then worked as a lecturer, student councilor and senior student councilor as well as substitute professor for music education at the

University of Erlangen–Nuremberg The Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (, FAU) is a Public University, public research university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. The name Friedrich-Alexander is derived from the university's first ...

(1988-1999) and at the (1994/95). Brusniak

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in 1998 at the University of Augsburg for Musicology and was appointed a

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. In 1999, he was appointed to the professorship for music education and didactics of music education at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. Founded in 1402, it is one of the ol ...

, where he was also appointed first Chair holder for

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in 2004. From 1989 to 1999, he built up the singer museum of the in Feuchtwangen (successor institute of the former German Singer Museum in Nuremberg). Since 2010, he has been Scientific Director of the Foundation Documentation and Research Centre of the German Choral Industry. From 2010 to 2012, he was project manager "German Choral Studies" (). From 2011 to 2015, he held a guest professorship at the Akademia Pomorska w Słupsku. He retired on 1 April 2019. Since 2018, he has been president of the Franconian Singers' Association.

Awards

* Silver Mozart Medal of the

International Mozarteum Foundation The International Mozarteum Foundation (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum) was founded in 1880 in Salzburg with its primary concern being the life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Closely affiliated with the Mozarteum University Salzburg, it w ...

(2003). * Auszeichnung der Akademia Pomorska w Słupsku (2015).

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Pommersche Akademie in Słupsk
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