Albert Dunning

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Albert Dunning (born August 5, 1936 in Arnhem , † June 2, 2005 in Loenen aan de Vecht ) was a Dutch musicologist .

Life

Albert Dunning is considered one of the most important researchers into the life and work of the Italian composer Pietro Antonio Locatelli . He studied at the University of Amsterdam from 1958 to 1965 and in the meantime spent a semester at the University of Vienna . As a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , he carried out research in 1966 and 1967 in Vienna and Munich. From 1968 he was an assistant at the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate a year later at the University of Amsterdam. In 1970 Dunning became a visiting professor at Syracuse University in New York and taught on their behalf at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1971 to 1973 . In the following two years he was a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and researched from 1975 to 1988 at the Ryksuniversiteit Utrecht .

From 1988 Dunning was Professor of Modern Music History at the University of Pavia . In 1991 Albert Dunning founded the Pietro Antonio Locatelli Foundation based in Amsterdam and Cremona; since then he has been the editor in charge of their publications. In addition to this activity as one of the most important researchers of Locatelli's life and work, he wrote numerous essays in specialist publications and worked as a music editor of works from the early 16th and 18th centuries.

Publications (selection)

  • Joseph Schmitt; Life and compositions of the Eberbach Cistercian and music publisher (Amsterdam, 1962)
  • De Muziekuitgever Gerhard Frederick Witvogel (Utrecht, 1966)
  • The State Motet 1480–1555 (Utrecht, 1969)
  • Count Unico van Wassenaer (1692–1766) A master unmasked or the Pergolesi- Ricciotti Puzzle solved (Buren, 1980)
  • Pietro Antonio Locatelli; The virtuoso and his world , in 2 volumes (Buren, 1981)
  • Pietro Antonio Locatelli; Catalogo tematico, lettere, documenti & iconografia (Mainz, 2001)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary and curriculum vitae on the website of the "Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde"
  2. ↑ Music in the past and present , 2nd edition, Vol. 5, Sp. 1604–1605
personal data
SURNAME Dunning, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnhem , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 2005
Place of death Loenen aan de Vecht