Friedrich Geiger (born in 1966) 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 ...

Life

Born in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

, Geiger studied music, historical and systematic musicology and Latin

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

in Munich and Hamburg. After gaining his

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in 1997 with a thesis on

Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel (17 February/29 February 1896 – 19 June 1984) was a Swiss composer of German and Russian descent. Life Born in Moscow, Vogel first studied composition in Moscow with Alexander Scriabin, then between 1918 and 1924 wi ...

, he headed the Research and Information Centre for ostracized Music at the Dresden Centre for Contemporary Music from 1997 to 2002. He then

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d at the musicological institutes of the

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and the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public university, public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('':de:Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen, ...

. After his

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in 2003 with a study on the persecution of composers under Hitler and Stalin, he was

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and lecturer at the musicological seminar of the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

in the

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special research area Aesthetic Experience in the Sign of the Dissolution of Artistic Limits from 2003 to 2007. Since summer semester 2007 he has been teaching as professor for

historical musicology Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view. In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history of ...

at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on music history from the 18th century to the present, music of antiquity and ancient reception in music, music in dictatorships, historiography of popular music, geography of music history and music aesthetics and musical judgement.

Publications

* ''Die Dramma-Oratorien von Wladimir Vogel 1896–1984''. Hamburg 1998, . * ''Musik in zwei Diktaturen. Verfolgung von Komponisten unter Hitler und Stalin''. Kassel 2004, . * ''Verdikte über Musik. 1950–2000''. Stuttgart 2005, . * with

Michael Custodis Michael Custodis (born 1973) is a German musicologist, sociologist and university lecturer at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. Career Born in Cologne, Custodis studied musicology, sociology, comparative politics, education ...

: ''Netzwerke der Entnazifizierung. Kontinuitäten im deutschen Musikleben am Beispiel von

Werner Egk Werner Egk (, 17 May 1901 – 10 July 1983), born Werner Joseph Mayer, was a German composer. Early career He was born in the Swabian town of Auchsesheim, today part of Donauwörth, Germany. His family, of Catholic peasant stock, moved to Augsb ...

, Hilde und Heinrich Strobel''.''Netzwerke der Entnazifizierung : Kontinuitäten im deutschen Musikleben am Beispiel von Werner Egk, Hilde und Heinrich Strobel''
on WorldCat Münster 2013, .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Geiger, Friedrich German music historians 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists Academic staff of the University of Hamburg Writers from Munich 1966 births Living people