Albin Buchholz

Albin Buchholz (* 1937 in Guben ) is a German musicologist .

Buchholz completed his studies in music education with a major in violin at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin with a state examination. He completed a postgraduate degree in musicology with a second subject in music aesthetics at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , from which he graduated as a musicologist. At the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg , he was in 1976 on the subject to develop the violin concerto in the GDR (1950-1970) Dr. phil. PhD . As a violinist, he worked in various orchestras, taught at music schools, worked as a music dramaturge at the Plauen-Zwickau theater , as a research assistant and as a newspaper editor / music reviewer.

Buchholz has lived in Plauen since 1975 and deals intensively with the music history of the Vogtland . On this subject he published several books and numerous articles in specialist magazines and regional periodicals such as the Vogtland homeland sheets or the communications of the Association for Vogtland History, Folklore and Regional Studies . The topics considered include in particular the Vogtland organ landscape and, in general, musical instrument making.

Fonts (selection)

• On the development of the violin concerto in the GDR (1950–1970) , Diss. Halle 1976. DNB 780826833
• What your sound wants to tell me: a musical hike through the Saxon Vogtland districts , Hoermann, Hof / Saale 1992, ISBN 3-88267-041-X
• Sertum musicale or Musicanten-Buch: Plauen 1637 , Permanent Conference of Central German Baroque Music in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, Blankenburg / Harz 1998, ISBN 978-3-00-002401-6 .
• Organs in the Saxon Vogtland: a documentation of an impressive organ landscape , Kamprad, Altenburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-930550-39-5 .
• Arno Hilf - 1858–1909 - violin virtuoso, teacher, composer: a documentation on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of his birthday (= writings of the Neuberin Museum Volume 38), Reichenbach 2018. ISBN 978-3-932626-38-8
• Vogtland violinists and violin music: Study on the music history of the Vogtland (with examples of pictures and music) (= writings of the Neuberin Museum Volume 46), Reichenbach 2019. ISBN 978-3-932626-46-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Albin Buchholz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Albin Buchholz in the Saxon Bibliography
• Literature by and about Albin Buchholz in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief biographical information about the author, in: Albin Buchholz: Orgeln im Sächsischen Vogtland: a documentation on an impressive organ landscape , Kamprad, Altenburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-930550-39-5 , p. 309.