Peter Revers (born 1954) is a German-Austrian

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 ...

and

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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 un ...

Life

Born in

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at the Paris-Lodron-University and at the Mozarteum Salzburg and

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. He received his doctorate in 1980 and also received his artistic diploma in 1981. From 1981 to 1996 he was assistant, lecturer and guest professor at the Vienna and Graz Universities of Music, but also worked at the universities of Salzburg and Hamburg. In 1988/1989 he was granted a research fellowship by the

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of the University of Hamburg, where he also habilitated in 1993. Revers has been married to the pianist and university professor Lucy Revers-Chin since 1982. Since 1996 Revers has been full professor for music history at the

Kunstuniversität 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 ''Musikverein für Steiermark, Akademischer Musikverein'' founded in 1 ...

. From 2001 to 2009 he was president of the Austrian Society for Musicology. Revers' research interests include

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic music, Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and ...

Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius (; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic music, Romantic and 20th-century classical music, early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his countr ...

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...

, the music of the 18th to 21st centuries, but also the reception of East Asia in the history of western music.

Publication

* Friedrich C. Heller/Peter Revers: ''Das Wiener Konzerthaus. Geschichte und Bedeutung'', Vienna 1983. * ''Gustav Mahler – Untersuchungen zu den späten Sinfonien''. Hamburg 1985. * ''Das Fremde und das Vertraute. Studien zur musiktheoretischen und musikdra-matischen Ostasienrezeption'' (Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft XLI), Stuttgart 1997. * ''Mahlers Lieder'', Munich 2000 (Verlag C. H. Beck). * ''Gegenwart und Zukunft der wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchsförderung'', ed. by

Josef Ehmer Josef Ehmer (7 November 1948 – 10 May 2023) was an Austrian historian and professor emeritus at the University of Vienna. Education and academic career Ehmer was born in Gschwandt on 7 November 1948. After attending elementary & secondary sch ...

, Dietmar Goltschnigg, Peter Revers and , Vienna 2003. * ''Harry…Heinrich…Henri…Heine: Deutscher – Jude – Europäer'', ed. by Dietmar Goltschnigg, Charlotte Grollegg-Edler and Peter Revers, Berlin (Erich Schmied) 2008. * ''Gustav Mahler – Interpretationen seiner Werke'', edited by Peter Revers and Oliver Korte, 2 volS., Laaber 2011.

References

External links

Peter Revers an der KUG

Revers am Institut für Musikpädagogik der KUG

Peter Revers on WorldCat
{{DEFAULTSORT:Revers, Peter Austrian musicologists 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists Academic staff of the University of Graz 1954 births Living people Writers from Würzburg