Ortrun Landmann (born 11 May 1937) 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

Landmann was born as daughter of the aircraft designer and university teacher in

Szczecin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ...

. After her studies and doctorate at the

University of Rostock The University of Rostock () is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Se ...

she was a

research assistant A research assistant (RA) is a researcher employed, often on a temporary contract, by a university, research institute, or privately held organization to provide assistance in academic or private research endeavors. Research assistants work under ...

to the conductors Otmar Suitner and

Herbert Blomstedt Herbert Thorson Blomstedt (; born 11 July 1927) is a Swedish conductor of classical music. At the age of 97 he continues to conduct concerts in Europe and the United States. Biography Herbert Blomstedt was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, t ...

as well as to the music department of the

Saxon State and University Library Dresden The Saxon State and University Library Dresden (full name in ), abbreviated SLUB Dresden, is located in Dresden, Germany. It is both the regional library () for the Federal Republic of Germany, German State of Saxony as well as the academic libr ...

. From 1987 until her retirement, she was head of the

Répertoire International des Sources Musicales The Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM, English ''International Inventory of Musical Sources'', German ''Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik'') is an international non-profit organization, founded in Paris in 1952, with ...

department at the State Library Dresden. The focus of her historical musicology work is the music at the

Electorate of Saxony The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony ( or ), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356 to 1806 initially centred on Wittenberg that came to include areas around the cities of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. It was a ...

court in

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

and the work of the

Staatskapelle Dresden The Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (), or Saxon State Orchestra Dresden, is one of the oldest orchestras in the world, created by order of Maurice, Elector of Saxony in 1548. Under communist East Germany and until 1992 it was called Staatskap ...

Work

* ''Die Dresdener italienische Oper zwischen Hasse und Weber : ein Daten- und Quellenverzeichnis für die Jahre 1765-1817''. * ''Über das Musikerbe der Sächsischen Staatskapelle''
2009, Volltext2. Ausgabe, 2010, Volltext
. * ''Zu den Dresdner Hofnotisten des 18. Jahrhunderts. Sieben Thesen und ein Anhang''
2014, Volltext
. * ''Das Dresdner Opernarchiv in der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden''. CD-ROM-Katalog mit Begleitband, published by the SLUB and the RISM-Arbeitsgruppe Deutschland, Munich 2002. * ''Katalog der Dresdener Hasse-Musikhandschriften''. CD-ROM edition with booklet, published by the RISM-Arbeitsgruppe Deutschland, Munich 1999. * ''Die Telemann-Quellen der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek. Handschriften und zeitgenössische Druckausgaben seiner Werke''. ''Studien zur Musikgeschichte Dresdens''. issue 4, Dresden 1983. * ''Die Dresdener italienische Oper zwischen Hasse und Weber. Ein Daten- und Quellenverzeichnis''.'' Studien und Materialien zur Musikgeschichte Dresdens'', issue 2, Dresden 1976. * ''Quellenstudien zum Intermezzo comico per musica und zu seiner Geschichte in Dresden''.''Quellenstudien zum Intermezzo comico per musica und zu seiner Geschichte in Dresden''
on WorldCat Phil. Dissertation, Rostock 1972.

References

External links

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Landmann, Ortrun
on SächsBib {{DEFAULTSORT:Landmann, Ortrun 1937 births Living people Writers from Szczecin German music historians German women historians German librarians German women librarians German musicologists German women musicologists