Andres Briner

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Andres Briner (born May 31, 1923 in Zurich ; † June 1, 2014 there ) was a Swiss music historian , university professor and cultural journalist .

Life

From 1943 to 1952, Briner studied German and musicology at the Conservatory and the University of Zurich . In musicology he was a student of Paul Hindemith for a year . In 1953 he received his doctorate under Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez at the University of Zurich. From 1968 he was a member of the Hindemith Foundation's board of trustees and was its president from 1986 to 1998.

He worked with Rolf Liebermann at the Zurich radio studio from 1953 to 1955. He then went to the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania , where he taught until 1964. From 1964 to 1988 he was Willi Schuh's successor as editor of the feature section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung for music and musicology. Briner's main areas of work were the work of Paul Hindemith and modern music since 1880. He also specialized in composers in Switzerland and the history of music in Zurich.

Honors

Fonts

  • The change in music as a contemporary art. Universal Edition, Vienna 1955 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1953, as an experiment on the musical shape of the times and their transformation in European music since the mensural polyphony ).
  • Practica musica. From dealing with early music. Translated from a work by Thurston Dart . Dalp Collection , Vol. 29. A. Francke Verlag, Bern / Munich 1959.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche as a musician (special print from Swiss monthly issue, 42nd year, issue 6, September 1962).
  • Music history from the perspective of Zurich. 150th New Year's sheet of the Zurich General Music Society for 1966. Hug, Zurich 1966.
  • Paul Hindemith . Atlantis, Zurich / Freiburg 1971.
  • Tendencies and realizations. Festschrift of the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein on the occasion of its 75th anniversary (1900–1975). Atlantis, Zurich 1975 (with Max Favre, Paul-André Gaillard and Bernard Geller).
  • Letters to Volkmar Andreae : Half a century of musical life in Zurich, 1902–1959. Edited by Margaret Engeler in collaboration with Ernst Lichtenhahn . Introduction by Gerold Fierz, contribution by Andres Briner. Atlantis, Zurich 1986.
  • with Giselher Schubert , Dieter Rexroth : Paul Hindemith. Life and work in pictures and text. Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-0204-6 .
    Italian: Paul Hindemith. Vita e opere. DeFerrari, Genoa 1995, ISBN 88-7172-033-4 .
  • Swiss Composers in the 20th Century. Eleven short portraits. Arts Council of Switzerland / Pro Helvetia , 1990.
  • Armin Schibler 1920–1986. 1st part: life and personality. Hug, Zurich 1990 (with Hans-Rudolf Metzger). 2nd part: To the music. Hug, Zurich 1991 (174th and 175th New Years paper of the Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft Zürich).
  • Musical coexistence. Edited by Giselher Schubert. With a foreword by Hermann Danuser . Schott, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-7957-1868-6 .
  • Rudolf Kelterborn . Music dossier. Pro Helvetia / Zytglogge Verlag, 1993 (Ed. With Thomas Gartmann and Felix Meyer).
  • Willi Schuh 1900–1986. Musicologist, NZZ editor, Schoeck pioneer and Strauss biographer. Hug, Zurich 1998 (182nd New Year's sheet of the Zurich General Music Society).
  • Illusion and reality. Zurich Theater from 1834 to 1902. Biedermeier, early days, stability; as a continuation of the New Year's sheets of the Chorherrenstube No. 221 / learned society (Zurich): New Year's sheet piece 163.Beer, Zurich 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Hagmann: On the death of Andres Briner. The scientist as a critic. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 7, 2014, p. 24, accessed June 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Briner Andres ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Musinfo, accessed on June 9, 2014.
  3. ^ Title entry of the dissertation , catalog of the NEBIS library network , accessed on June 9, 2014.
  4. ^ Honorary doctorate 2006 from the Philosophical Faculty , website of the University of Zurich, accessed on June 9, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Briner, Andres
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss music historian, university professor and cultural journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2014
Place of death Zurich