Angelo Garovi

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Angelo Garovi (born January 25, 1944 in Sarnen ) is a Swiss Germanist, historian, musicologist and composer. His work focuses on name research , historical semantics and conceptual history as well as history , legal and musical history of Switzerland.

Life

Angelo Garovi, son of the composer Josef Garovi , studied German , musicology , history and legal history after graduating from the Brig college at the Universities of Zurich and Bern . In 1972 he did his doctorate with Paul Zinsli with a dissertation on Lucerne based on names . He also attended the organist school in Lucerne and a composition course in Cologne with Mauricio Kagel . Garovi is married to Anne Marie Garovi-von Moos, a daughter of the former Federal Councilor Ludwig von Moos .

Garovi was an organist in Brig, Lucerne and Bern as well as a music critic for Lucerne and Bern newspapers. Appointed to the Bern radio studio in 1968, he was head of the New and Old Music departments until 1980 and was particularly committed to Swiss music creation. He designed programs in the Bern music studio with the composers Ernst Krenek , Witold Lutosławski , Isang Yun , Goffredo Petrassi , Brian Ferneyhough , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Henri Pousseur , György Ligeti , Mauricio Kagel , Henryk Mikołaj Górecki , Wolfgang Rihm , Klaus Huber .

In 1980 Garovi was elected state archivist of the canton of Obwalden and held this office until 2007. As a historian, he has primarily dealt with the history of the canton of Obwalden, the creation of the Chronicle of the White Book of Sarnen , the question of diocese membership in Switzerland and the local and national music history. From 1980 to 1992 he was a member of various committees of the Swiss Radio and Television Society (SRG), in particular the program commission for radio and television in German and Romansh Switzerland. In 1984 he founded the Central Switzerland branch of the International Society for New Music (IGNM) in Lucerne and was its first president.

In 1979 and 1993 he spent research stays in Florence, Milan and Heidelberg with grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He completed his habilitation with a legal linguistic thesis at the University of Basel, where he became a private lecturer and, in 2000, professor of German philology with lectureships in linguistics as well as history and music history at the universities of Basel, Zurich, Lucerne, Freiburg im Üechtland and Greifswald, and at the ETH Zurich .

Fonts (selection)

  • The local names of the city of Lucerne in the Middle Ages. Commission publisher Keller & Co., Lucerne 1975.
  • Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Will Eisenmann. (Ed.) Lucerne 1986.
  • Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Caspar Diethelm. (Ed.) Luzern 1996, ISBN 3-909221-26-2 .
  • Sachsler church book 1488. Zug 1997, ISBN 3-907514-51-3 .
  • The legal language landscapes of Switzerland and their European relevance. Tübingen and Basel 1999, ISBN 3-7720-2675-3 .
  • Obwalden story. State Archives of the Canton of Obwalden, Sarnen 2000, ISBN 3-9520429-1-9 .
  • Heinrich Loeffler. Language research at the limit. Selected Writings. (Ed., Together with Werner König , Suzanne de Roche and Willy Elmer). Tübingen and Basel 2004, ISBN 3-7720-8058-8 .
  • Commemorative publication Ludwig von Moos. Booklet accompanying the special exhibition Ludwig von Moos. The Obwalden Federal Council from 1960 to 1971 in the Historical Museum Obwalden (publisher, together with Leo von Moos), Sarnen 2010.
  • with Roland Sigrist: Korporation Alpnach - From the beginnings to the present. Verlag Martin Wallimann, Alpnach 2012, ISBN 978-3-905969-21-4 .
  • Music history of Switzerland. Stämpfli Verlag, Bern 2015, ISBN 978-3-7272-1448-6 .
  • Obwalden field names. Self-published, Bern 2016.
  • Niklaus von Flüe. Heinrich Wölflin's biography of the hermit Brother Klaus from 1501 in the translation by JK Scheuber and other documents and texts on Brother Klaus. Self-published, Bern 2017.

Compositions (selection)

  • E par che de la sua labbia… (Dante) , fragment for soprano and organ (1970)
  • Study for AM for organ (1973)
  • La musique souvent me prend comme une mer (Baudelaire) pour orgue (1975)
  • Piano piece for Mauricio Kagel's Metapièce (1975)
  • Vox (in) humana for large organ (1977)
  • Princeps Apostolorum , antiphon for organ (1992)
  • (Ed.) Joseph Rheinberger, Suite for Violin and Organ, op.166, Amadeus Verlag 1977

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 23rd edition, Munich 2011, ISSN  1616-8399

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personal data
SURNAME Garovi, Angelo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Germanist, historian, musicologist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarnen