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Wolf Frobenius (1 June 1940 – 4 July 2011) was 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 ...
and
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, who taught at the
Saarland University Saarland University (, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major ...
.


Life

Born in
Speyer Speyer (, older spelling ; ; ), historically known in English as Spires, is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in the western part of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the r ...
, Frobenius studied
musicology 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, ...
,
art history Art history is the study of Work of art, artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Tradit ...
and history at the
University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1 ...
from 1960 to 1968 (with two semesters abroad at the
University of Paris The University of Paris (), known Metonymy, metonymically as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated wit ...
), where he became a
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in 1968 with a thesis on Johannes Boens. From 1968 to 1988, he 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 ...
at the '' Hand Dictionary of Musical Terminology'' (for which he wrote 24 articles) and edited the
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''Terminology for Rhythm and Notation of Mensural Music'' (1969-1975), ''Terminology of Musical Time Organization'' (1975-1978) and ''Names of the Types of the mehrst. Satzes'' (1978-1979), from which numerous monographs on the history of concepts have emerged. From 1971 to 1988, Frobenius was lecturer at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. After his
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in 1988, he became a professor at the Saarland University. Frobenius did research on the early beginnings of music and was active in the field of early
polyphony Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice ( monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chord ...
. He wrote an article on the music of the Middle Ages for the encyclopaedia ''
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'' (''MGG''; "Music in the Past and Present") is a German music encyclopedia. It is among the world's most comprehensive encyclopedias of music history and musicology, on account of its scope, content, wealth ...
''. Just like the beginnings of music, he was interested in the sound worlds that
Neue Musik Neue Musik (English ''new music'', French ''nouvelle musique'') is the collective term for a wealth of different currents in composed Western art music from around 1910 to the present. Its focus is on compositions of 20th century music. It is char ...
opened up. His main areas of research were the music and music theory of the Middle Ages and the 20th century. He was regarded as an expert on
Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...
and New Music. Frobenius died on 4 July 2011 at the age of 71 in Saarbrücken. Shortly before that he appeared as editor of the volume ''Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance'' together with and at the
Georg Olms Verlag Georg Olms Verlag is a Hildesheim-based book publisher with publications in the field of ''Geisteswissenschaft'' (i.e. the humanities): first publications, ebooks, reprints and microfiche in the fields of archaeology, Arab studies, history, histo ...
. In his honour, a commemorative lecture was given by Rob C. Wegman from the
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on the ''Paradoxes in the Tradition of Organa dupla of the Notre Dame Epoch''. 4


Work


Publications

* ''Johannes Boens Musica und seine Konsonanzlehre.'' (Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1968) Stuttgart 1971. (''Freiburger Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft'', vol. 2.) * ''Carmen Maria Carnecis "Trojtza für 15 Spieler" (1989/90). Zur Genese des Stückes.''''Carmen Maria Cârnecis "Trojtza für 15 Spieler" (1989/90) : zur Genese des Stückes''
on WorldCat
Saarbrücken 1995.


Articles and essays

* ''21 begriffsgeschichtliche Monographien'' in HMT, 1.–16. Auslieferung (1972–1989) * ''Zur Datierung von Francos Ars cantus mensurabilis'', in AfMw 27, 1970, * ''Über das Zeitmaß Augenblick in Adornos Kunsttheorie'', in AfMw. 34, 1979, * ''Politisierung der Ästhetik zwecks Ästhetisierung der Politik. Zur Funktion der Musik im Dritten Reich'', in Freiburger Universitätsblätter 68, 1980, * ''Krenek und Ockeghem'', in Ernst Krenek von O. Kolleritsch, Vienna/Graz 1982, (Studien zur Wertungsforschung 15) * ''Bartók und Bach'', in AfMw 41, 1984, * ''Petrus de Cruces Motette „Aucun ont trouvé chant par usage/Lonc tans me sui tenu de chanter/ANNUNTIANTES“. Frz. Motettenkompos. um 1300'', in Fs. H. H. Eggebrecht, edited by W. Breig / R. Brinkmann / E. Budde, Stuttgart 1984, (BzAfMw 23) * ''Zum genetischen Verhältnis zwischen Notre-Dame-Klauseln und ihren Motetten'', in AfMw 44, 1987, pp. 1–39 * ''Numeri armonici. Die Zahlen der Timaios-Skala in der Mth. des 14. Jh.'', in Kontinuität und Transformation der Antike im MA., edited by W. Erzgräber, Sigmaringen 1989, * ''Der Musiktheoretiker von Köln'', in Die Kölner Univ. im MA., edited by A. Zimmermann, Berlin. 1989 (Miscellanea mediaevalia 20), * ''Gottfried Michael Koenig als Theoretiker der seriellen Musik'', in Gottfried Michael Koenig, edited by H.-K. Metzger / R. Riehn, Munich 1989 (Musik-Konzepte 66), * ''Methoden und Hilfsmittel ma. Mth. und ihr Vokabular'', in Méthodes et instruments du travail intellectuel au moyen âge. Études sur le vocabulaire, edited by O. Weijers, Turnhout 1990 (CIVICIMA. Études sur le vocabulaire intellectuel du moyen âge 3), * ''Die Motette'' (13. Jh.), in ''Die Musik des Mittelalters'', edited by H. Möller u. R. Stephan, Laaber 1991 (NHdb 2), * ''Zur Begriffsgeschichte von „Akademie“'', in Fs. W. Braun, edited by W. Frobenius, N. Schwindt-Gross u. Th. Sick, Saarbrücken 1993 (Saarbrücker Studien zur Musikwissenschaft. N. F. 7), * ''Ars antiqua'', in MGG2, Sachteil (1994) * ''Cantus coronatus'', in MGG2, Sachteil (1995) * ''La Ballade pour piano op. 10 Nr. 1 de Johannes Brahms'', in Ostinato rigore 10, 1997, * ''Luigi Nonos Streichquartette. "Fragmente – Stille, An Diotima"'', in AfMw 54, 1997, * ''Schumann in der Musik nach 1950, in Robert Schumann: philologische, analytische, sozial- und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Aspekte'', edited by W. Frobenius among others, Saarbrücken 1998 (Saarbrücker Stud. zur Mw. N.F. 8), * ''Tempo (von der Zeit Beethovens bis zur Gegenwart)'', in MGG2, Sachteil (1998) * ''La Genèse du premier mouvement du premier Concerto pour piano de Brahms: observations sur le ms. autographe'', in Ostinato rigore 13, 1999, * ''György Ligeti und der Serialismus, in Zwischen Volks- und Kunstmusik. Aspekte der ungarischen Musik'', edited by Stefan Fricke, W. Frobenius, Sigrid Konrad & Theo Schmitt, Saarbrücken 1999, * ''John Cage und sein Orchesterstück 103 (1991)'', in AfMw 56, 1999, * ''Musikalische Kompositionen – eine Errungenschaft der französischen Musikkultur", in Die französische Kultur – interdisziplinäre Annäherungen'', edited by H.-J. Lüsebrink, St. Ingbert 1999 (Annales Univ. Saraviensis 12), * ''Josquins Chanson Plus nulz regrets. Quellenkritik und Analyse'', in Festschrift W. Braun, edited by B.R. Appel, K.W. Geck u. H.Schneider, Saarbrücken 2001 (Saarbrücker Stud. zur Mw. N. F. 9), * ''Polyphony (Western)'', in New GroveD (2001) * ''Textdeklamation in Schönbergs Erwartung'', in Studien und Materialien zur Vokalmusik des 20. Jahrhunderts. edited by Chr. Rolle u. H. Schneider, Regensburg, ConBrio-Verlag 2004 * ''"Plourés, dames". Zur Balladenmelodik Machauts'', in Festschrift Herbert Schneider, edited by Michelle Biget-Mainfroy and Rainer Schmusch, Hildesheim 2007, . * ''Zwei Geistliche Gesänge aus Hugo Wolfs Spanischem Liederbuch und ihre Bearbeitung durch Igor Strawinsky'', in ''Das österreichische Lied und seine Ausstrahlung in Europa'', edited by Pierre Béhar and Herbert Schneider, Hildesheim 2007, . * ''"Wuchsform" Ein Begriff von Rudolf Schwarz in Anton Weberns Analyse seines Streichquartetts op.28 von 1939'', in ''Sprachen der Kunst, Festschrift Klaus Güthlein'', edited by Lorenz Dittmann among others, Worms 2007, . * ''Zur musikalischen Form von Dufays "Vergene bella", in Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance. Festschrift Klaus-Jürgen Sachs zum 80. Geburtstag'', edited by Rainer Kleinertz, Christoph Flamm und Wolf Frobenius (Studien zur Geschichte der Musiktheorie 8), Hildesheim 2011,


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Frobenius, Wolf German musicologists Academic staff of Saarland University 1940 births 2011 deaths People from Speyer Brahms scholars Cage scholars Du Fay scholars Josquin scholars Ligeti scholars Nono scholars Schoenberg scholars Schumann scholars Webern scholars