Josef-Horst Lederer (born 18 September 1944) is an Austrian
musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...
.
Life
Born in
Celje
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Styria
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, today
Slovenia
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, Lederer studied musicology with
Othmar Wessely
Othmar Wessely (31 October 1922 – 20 April 1998) was an Austrian musicologist.
Career
Born in Linz, Wessely studied musicology at the University of Vienna with Erich Schenk. From 1963 to 1971 he was a university professor at the Karl-Franzens ...
at the
University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
The University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, also known as Kunstuniversität Graz (KUG) is an Austrian university. Its roots can be traced back to the music school of the '' Akademischer Musikverein'' founded in 1816, making it the oldest u ...
. He also studied piano and music theory at the
University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
The University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, also known as Kunstuniversität Graz (KUG) is an Austrian university. Its roots can be traced back to the music school of the '' Akademischer Musikverein'' founded in 1816, making it the oldest u ...
. He gained his
Doctorate
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in 1971 with a
thesis
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on
Lorenzo Penna
Lorenzo Penna (born January 21, 1998) is an Italian professional basketball player for Pallacanestro Forlì Pallacanestro is the Italian word for basketball. It can refer to the following basketball clubs:
* A.S. Junior Pallacanestro Casale
* As ...
. (1613–1693). Josef-Horst Lederer: ''Lorenzo Penna und seine Kontrapunkttheorie.''
Initially he worked as an assistant at the Musicological Institute of the University of Mainz in 1971/1972 with
Hellmut Federhofer Hellmut Federhofer (August 6, 1911 – May 1, 2014) was an Austrian musicologist. Born in Graz, he studied music there and in Vienna at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, graduating in 1936. In 1937, he became a librarian at the l ...
.In 1973 he moved back to Graz were he
habilitated
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in 1985 in the field of historical musicology. In 1987 he was awarded the rank of associate professor.
Lederer is involved in the
New Mozart Edition
The ''Neue Mozart-Ausgabe'' (''NMA''; English: ''New Mozart Edition'') is the second complete works edition of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A longer and more formal title for the edition is ''Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Neue A ...
, the
Gluck
Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he ga ...
and the
Johann Joseph Fux
Johann Joseph Fux (; – 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoint, '' Gradus ad Parnassum'', which h ...
complete editions, but also on various committees.
His research focuses on opera and symphonic music.
Further reading
* Josef-Horst Lederer: Lederer, Josef-Hors. In
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 respec ...
(ed.): ''
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik (MGG)'' is one of the world's most comprehensive encyclopedias of music history and musicology, on account of its scope, content, wealth of research areas, and reference t ...
''. Second edition, personal section, volume 10 (Kemp – Lert).
Bärenreiter/Metzler, Kassel among others. 2003,
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* ''Kritischer Bericht'': by Horst-Josef Lederer.
''Kritischer Bericht : von Horst-Josef Lederer.''
on WorldCat
References
External links
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University of Graz alumni
20th-century Austrian musicologists
21st-century Austrian musicologists
1944 births
Living people
Writers from Celje