Frank Schneider (musicologist)

Frank Schneider

Frank Schneider (* 1942 in Großerkmannsdorf , Dresden district ) is a German musicologist .

Life

Frank Schneider studied Kapellmeister at the Dresden University of Music from 1961 and musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1964 . In 1968 he started working at the Central Institute for Music Research at the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR, from 1971 he switched to the Humboldt University as an assistant, where he did his doctorate. phil. with a work on string quartet creation in the GDR. In 1975 he became dramaturge at the Komische Oper and then from 1980 research assistant at the Institute for Aesthetics and Art Studies at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin. After the PhD B to Dr. sc. at the University of Greifswald with a thesis on the political implications of composing, the Academy appointed him professor in 1989. In 1990 he took over the institute as director until the academy was dissolved. In 1992 the Berlin Senate appointed him artistic director of the Schauspielhaus (later Konzerthaus) and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra (BSO, later Konzerthausorchester). In this position he worked until 2009.

From 1995 to 2005 he taught as an honorary professor at the “Hanns-Eisler” University of Music in Berlin. In 2001 he was elected a full member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts , where he acted from 2003 to 2008 as the secretary of the music class.

Schneider lives in Berlin and works as a freelance musicologist.

Awards and honors

• 1989 Hanns Eisler Prize
• 1997: German Critics' Prize
• 2009: Order of Merit of the State of Berlin
• 2010: Honorary member of the German Music Council

Publications

• Snapshot. Notes on music and musicians in the GDR. Reclam, 1979.
• World what do I ask about you Political portraits of great composers. Reclam, 1988.
• Collected writings by Alban Berg and Arnold Schönberg. Reclam 1981.
• The Konzerthaus Berlin. Museum and gallery publisher, 1991.
• with Ulrich Dibelius : New Music in Divided Germany. Documents and commentaries in four volumes. Berliner Festspiel, 1993–1999.
• with Hermann Danuser: editor of the CD documentation of the German Music Council Music in Germany 1950–2000.
• “From yesterday to today” - writings on new music. Edited by Jürgen Otten, Stefan Fricke. Peacock, 2012.
• A world on sixteen strings. Conversations with the Vogler Quartet. Berenberg Verlag , Berlin 2015.
• Always a political impulse. Juan Allend-Blin in conversation with Christian Esch and Frank Schneider. Publishing house Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 2017.

Since 1995 he has been working on an internet database for the systematic recording of composed music from past and present with regard to materials and motifs with over 330,000 entries so far.

Web links

• Literature by and about Frank Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Database of classical themes - subjects and motifs of music
• Irene Bazinger: In conversation: Frank Schneider - Did you prefer Pope or Ossi, Mr. Schneider? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 12, 2009
• Jürgen Otten: Schneider leaves the Berlin Konzerthaus A question of art morality , In: Frankfurter Rundschau, July 3, 2009
• Volker Blech: Intendant Schneider gives himself a book to say goodbye , In: Berliner Morgenpost, December 22, 2008