Siegfried Oechsle (born 1956) 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

Oechsle studied musicology, art history and philosophy at the universities of Kiel and Copenhagen. In 1985 he became M. A. at the University of Kiel with his "Studien zum symphonischen Frühwerk

Niels Gade Niels Wilhelm Gade (22 February 1817 – 21 December 1890) was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. Together with Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, he was the leading Danish musician of his day, in the period known as ...

". He then worked as a research assistant at the Musicological Institute. In 1989 he was awarded his

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with a work under the title "Symphony after Beethoven. Studies on Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Gade". After his habilitation in 1995 ("Bachs Arbeit am strengen Satz. Studien zum Kantatenwerk") he was first senior assistant, then from 1999 professor of musicology at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

(successor to John Bergsagel). In 2001 he was appointed to the chair of musicology as full professor of musicology at the

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ''Academia Holsator ...

(successor to

Friedhelm Krummacher Friedhelm Krummacher (born 22 January 1936) is a German musicologist. Life Born in Berlin, Krummacher is the second oldest son of . He studied musicology after his private music teacher examination in 1957, philosophy and German studies in Ber ...

. Since 2011 he has been a full member of the

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Publications

* ''Kunstreligion und Musik : 1800-1900-2000''. * ''Intensive und extensive Zeitweisen der Form : Symphonische Monumentalität bei Schubert und Brahms''. * ''Von Schönberg zu Mozart : Versuch über den Prozesscharakter Mozartscher Musik''.''Von Schönberg zu Mozart : Versuch über den Prozesscharakter Mozartscher Musik''
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Siegfried Oechsle
on WorldCat {{DEFAULTSORT:Oechsle, Siegfried 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists Academic staff of the University of Kiel Members of Academia Europaea 1956 births Place of birth missing (living people) Living people