Albrecht von Massow (musicologist)

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Albrecht von Massow (* 1960 in Bonn ) is a German musicologist . Since 2000 he has held a professorship for music of the 20th century and systematic musicology at the joint institute for musicology Weimar-Jena.

Life

Albrecht von Massow studied musicology, philosophy and modern German literature from 1982 to 1988 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . As a research assistant he worked on the concise dictionary of musical terminology . From 1988 to 1991 he did his doctorate under Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht . His dissertation dealt with “Demi-world, culture and nature in Alban Berg's Lulu ” and was awarded summa cum laude . From 1993, von Massow gave analysis courses at the musicological seminar at the University of Freiburg and, together with Eggebrecht, organized weekend seminars as part of the Studium generale . He was a founding member of the Society for Music & Aesthetics, which has existed since 1995 . Von Massow completed his habilitation in 2000 at the University of Dortmund with the habilitation thesis “Musical Subject - Idea and Appearance in Modernity”.

Since then he has held a professorship for 20th century music and systematic musicology at the joint institute for musicology at the Liszt School of Music Weimar and the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Von Massow is the founder, supervisor and co-editor of the series "KlangZeiten - Musik, Politik und Gesellschaft", which has been published since 2004. Since 2012 he has been on the board of the Nohra Landscape Park Foundation . He has been President of the German Liszt Society since October 2017.

Publications (selection)

  • Half-world, culture and nature in Alban Berg's "Lulu" (= supplement to AfMw 33), Stuttgart 1992.
  • Musical subject. Idea and appearance in modern times. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 2001.
  • Aesthetics and Analysis , in: Musical Sense. Contributions to a Philosophy of Music , ed. by Alexander Becker and Matthias Vogel, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, pp. 129-174.
  • Editing with Michael Berg, Knut Holtsträter: The unbearable lightness of art. Aesthetic and political action in the GDR. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007.
    • therein: Problems of a humanistic legitimation of art. Pp. 163-175.
  • Musical aesthetics of autonomy between the humanities, natural and social sciences , in: Laboratorium Aufklerung 1, ed. by Olaf Breidbach, Daniel Fulda and Hartmut Rosa, Munich 2010, pp. 169–197.
  • Attempts to come to terms with the musicological past , in: Freiburger Universitätsblätter , H. 195, 2012, pp. 13–50.
  • Editing with Thomas Grysko, Josephine Prkno: A prism of East German music: the composer Lothar Voigtländer. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015.
  • The underrated art. Music since the first enlightenment. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Curriculum vitae on the website of the Institute for Musicology Weimar-Jena
personal data
SURNAME Massow, Albrecht von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn