Alexander Becker (musicologist)

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Alexander Becker (born May 10, 1972 in Karlsruhe ) is a German musicologist , research assistant at the Max Reger Institute and politician ( CDU ). Since April 1, 2019, he has been a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg ( MdL ).

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Education and academic background

Alexander Becker studied musicology, philosophy and sociology at the University of Fridericiana in Karlsruhe from 1992 to 1999 and graduated with a master's degree with a thesis on Max Reger's arrangements of works by Hugo Wolf . Becker has worked at the Max Reger Institute (MRI) since 1997. There he was initially a student assistant and supervisor of the BrüderBusch archive.

From 2001 to 2007 he worked on the Reger-Werk -verzeichnis (RWV) at the MRI, part of the DFG research project Reger-Werk -verzeichnis / Reger-Briefe -verzeichnis. The RWV lists all of Max Reger's printed, unprinted, completed and fragmentary works. In February 2009 he received his doctorate with a dissertation submitted in October 2007 on Reger's instrumentation in his orchestral works. From 2008 to 2019 he works at the MRI on the Reger edition (RWA) funded by the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature (AdW-Mainz) and the Institute for Musicology and Music Informatics at the University of Music Karlsruhe (HfM). The edition, designed as a hybrid edition, contains not only the printed music volume but also a DVD on which the available source material is located and has been scientifically processed.

Together with Susanne Popp , Alexander Becker has headed the Max Reger Institute since 2017, and since Susanne Popp's departure he has been the sole managing director since October 1, 2019.

Political career

Alexander Becker had been the district association chairman of the CDU in Rastatt since 2013, but did not stand for election again in 2017 because he wanted to concentrate on his professional and academic career.

For the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2016 , the CDU Rastatt nominated Sylvia Felder as a candidate for the state constituency of Rastatt in January 2016 . Felder, who had previously been the office manager of MdL Karl-Wolfgang Jägel and was given a leave of absence from this post after Easter 2015 after her declared candidacy, ended Jägel's twelve-year career in the state parliament. Alexander Becker was nominated as a substitute candidate for Felder and Felder was able to win the second mandate in the constituency. Felder resigned her state parliament mandate on March 31, 2019, as she was the successor to Nicolette Kressl (SPD) as the district president in the Karlsruhe district .

On April 1, 2019, Alexander Becker took up his state parliament mandate as his successor in a second mandate. There he is a member of the Committee for Culture, Youth and Sport and the Committee for Europe and International Affairs.

Works (selection)

  • Questions of the sonic reality of authorized musical texts using the example of Max Reger . In: Editio . International yearbook for edition science. tape 16 , 2003, p. 105-116 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783484604445.105 .
  • Investigations into the instrumentation in Max Reger's orchestral works . To obtain the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Karlsruhe 2012 ( d-nb.info [PDF; accessed June 1, 2019] dissertation 2007).
  • "A lot has to be brought to Reger ." In: Musica sacra . The magazine for Catholic church music. 136th volume, issue 1, 2016, p. 8-11 .
  • “I just want a very large, modern organ!” - To Max Reger's world of organs . In: The Sauer organ in the Marienkirche in Mühlhausen / Thuringia . Texts on their music-historical classification - considerations on their restoration (=  Mühlhausen contributions . Special issue 27). Mühlhausen / Thuringia 2016, p. 19-28 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reger-Werk-Directory (RWV). Directory of Max Reger's works and their sources. Reger letters directory (RBV). Chronological index of Max Reger's letters. In: GEPRIS. German Research Foundation , accessed June 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Employees. In: Max Reger Institute. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Information on the Max Reger Institute homepage. Retrieved June 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Dr. Alexander Becker is no longer standing for election. Press release. CDU Rastatt, June 21, 2017, accessed on June 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ CDU candidacy: Office manager replaces her boss. In: swp.de . January 20, 2016, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  6. ^ Inauguration of District President Sylvia Felder , press release from May 17, 2019 on Baden-Württemberg.de .
  7. ↑ Dr. Alexander Becker, CDU. In: State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .

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SURNAME Becker, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe