Axel Klein (musicologist)

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Axel Klein (born August 22, 1962 in Münster ) is a German musicologist and non-fiction author . He is primarily concerned with the history of classical music in Ireland and with the musical relationships between Ireland and other countries, particularly France, Great Britain and the USA.

Life

Axel Klein was born in Münster, Westphalia, in 1962. He completed his studies in music and musicology at the University of Hildesheim from 1984 to 1990 as a qualified cultural pedagogue. During a study visit at Trinity College Dublin from 1987 to 1988 his interest in Irish music was aroused. In 1995 he wrote his doctoral thesis on the music of Ireland in the 20th century with Werner Keil in Hildesheim.

Klein later wrote other books on similar topics and wrote numerous articles for books and journals. His focus expanded to the late 18th and 19th centuries and, since around 2011, to French-Irish musical relationships. a. resulted in two book publications: one about four generations of the Irish family of musicians O'Kelly in France (Norderstedt, 2014), the other about the Irish-American composer Swan Hennessy, who is based in Paris (Mainz, 2019).

From 1994 to 2008, Klein was an advisory board member for Ireland in the creation of the music encyclopedia The Music Past and Present . He has also contributed to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London, 2001), the Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge, 2009) and the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (Dublin, 2013). Klein has been a Research Associate of the Research Foundation for Music in Ireland (RFMI) since 2015. In the same year he became a Corresponding Member (honorary member from abroad) of the Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI).

Klein works full-time as an editor for a sustainability consulting company. He has lived in Frankfurt am Main since 2011 .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The Music of Ireland in the 20th Century (Hildesheim, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1996), ISBN 978-3-48710-196-5 .
  • Irish Classical Recordings. A Discography of Irish Art Music (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001), ISBN 978-0-31331-742-2 .
  • O'Kelly. An Irish Musical Family in Nineteenth-Century France (Norderstedt: BoD, 2014), ISBN 978-3-7357-2310-9 .
  • Bird of Time. The Music of Swan Hennessy (Mainz: Schott Music, 2019), ISBN 978-3-95983-593-0 .

Editorships

  • with Gareth Cox: Irish Music in the Twentieth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003), ISBN 978-1-85182-647-6 .
  • with Gareth Cox and Michael Taylor: The Life and Music of Brian Boydell (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2004), ISBN 978-0-71652-762-6 .

Articles in books and journals

  • '... with Corelli he was enchanted' - The Irish harpist and composer Turlough Carolan (1670–1738) , in: Concerto 7 (1990), April, pp. 13–17.
  • '... incapable to this day?' - Guitar music from Ireland , in: Guitar & Laute 12 (1990), May – June, pp. 55–65.
  • 'Exactly two bars better ...' - On the 50th anniversary of the death of Irish conductor and composer Hamilton Harty (1879–1941) , in: Das Orchester 34: 4 (1991), pp. 408–413.
  • No country on the edge? - Dublin 1991: The music scene of the European Capital of Culture , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 152: 4 (1991), pp. 5–9.
  • Irish successors to the beggar opera, or, A Critical History of the British Isles' Greatest Laughter , in: Concerto 8 (1991), May, pp. 13-18.
  • Ulysses as tenor - James Joyce , the poet and his singing career , in: Musik & Theater 11: 6 (1991), pp. 30–31.
  • The English Guitar - From Hofinstrument zum Klimperkasten , in: Das Musikinstrument 40 (1991), July, pp. 13-16.
  • Great Britain / Ireland: countries without music? , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 152: 10 (1991), pp. 11-16.
  • New Guitar Music from Ireland - A Survey , in: Classical Guitar 10 (1992), Part 1: April, pp. 20-22; Part 2: May, pp. 39-42.
  • Flowing borders - The Irish music scene , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 154 (1993), May / June, pp. 22–24.
  • 'But what is still adventurous today?' - A portrait of the Irish composer Seóirse Bodley , in: MusikTexte 12 (1994), January, pp. 21-25.
  • Riverdance: Die Musik , in: irland journal 6: 4 (1995), December, pp. 16-17.
  • Music without an audience - The twenties in Ireland , in: Werner Keil (Hrsg.): Music of the twenties (= Hildesheim musicological works , vol. 3) (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1996), pp. 166-185.
  • Irish Composers and Foreign Education - A Study of Influences , in: Patrick F. Devine & Harry White (Eds.): The Maynooth International Musicological Conference 1995: Selected Proceedings Part One (= Irish Musical Studies Vol. 4) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996), pp. 271-284.
  • An 'old eminence among musical nations' - Nationalism and the Case for a Musical History in Ireland , in: Tomi Mäkelä (Ed.): Music and Nationalism in 20th-century Great Britain and Finland (Hamburg: von Bockel Verlag, 1997), Pp. 233-243.
  • The Composer in the Academy (2) 1940–1990 , in: Richard Pine & Charles Acton (ed.): To Talent Alone. The Royal Irish Academy of Music 1848-1998 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1998), pp. 419-428.
  • Aloys Fleischmann - an Inspiration , in: Ruth Fleischmann (Ed.), Aloys Fleischmann 1910–1992. A Life for Music in Ireland Remembered by his Contemporaries (Cork: Mercier Press, 2000), pp. 309-313.
  • Roots and Directions in Twentieth-Century Irish Art Music & A Twentieth-Century Irish Music Bibliography , in: Gareth Cox & Axel Klein (Eds.), Irish Music in the Twentieth Century (= Irish Musical Studies Vol. 7) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003), pp. 168-182 & 183-204.
  • 'The distant music mournfully murmereth' - The Influence of James Joyce on Irish Composers , in: Ars Lyrica 14 (2004), pp. 71-94.
  • Mirror Imaginations - Cultural Reflections between Irish and German Music, 1930-1970 , in: Christa Brüstle & Guido Heldt (eds.): Music as a Bridge. Musical Relationships between Britain and Germany, 1920-1950 (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2005), pp. 205-224.
  • Redefining 'Irish Music' in America - Making the Case for Irish Classical Music , in: Journal of Music in Ireland 5: 1 (2005), Jan./Feb., Pp. 4–6.
  • Stage Irish, or The National in Irish Opera 1780-1925 , in: Opera Quarterly 21: 1 (2005), Winter, pp. 27-67.
  • Celtic Legends in Irish Opera 1900-1930 , in: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium xxiv (2004) (Cambridge, Mass .: Department of Celtic Languages ​​and Literatures, Harvard University, 2009), pp. 40-53.
  • Qualité d'Irlandais: The O'Kelly Family in Nineteenth-Century French Musical Life , in: Eamon Maher & Catherine Maignant (Eds.): Franco-Irish Connections in Space and Time. Peregrinations and Ruminations (Bern etc .: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 133–154.
  • Joseph O'Kelly (1828-1885) and the 'Slings and Arrows of Fortune' , in: Études Irlandaises 39: 1 (2014), pp. 23–39.
  • Self-discovery through music. Irish composer Raymond Deane , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 176: 4 (July 2015), pp. 48–50.
  • Gilbert Bécaud 's L'Opéra d'Aran (1962) - A Rapprochement , in: Una Hunt & Mary Pierse (Eds.), France and Ireland. Notes and Narratives (Bern etc .: Peter Lang, 2015), pp. 79–90.
  • No State for Music , in: Michael Dervan (ed.): The Invisible Art. A Century of Music in Ireland, 1916–2016 (Dublin: New Island Books, 2016), pp. 46–68.
  • (with Jennifer Ward, RISM ) An Evening of Irish Music: The Emerald Isle Comes to Germany , in: Fontes Artis Musicae 63: 4 (Oct. – Dec. 2016), pp. 277–284.
  • 'All her lovely companions are faded and gone' - How 'The Last Rose of Summer' Became Europe's Favorite Irish Melody & Appendix 1: Utilizations of 'The Last Rose of Summer', respectively 'The Groves of Blarney', by European Composers in the Nineteenth Century, in Chronological Order , in: Brian Caraher & Sarah McCleave (Eds.), Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiratio n (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 128-145 & 231-253.
  • 'No, sir; the Irish are not musical ': Some Historic (?) Debates on Irish Musicality , in: Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Ed.): Music Preferred. Essays in Musicology, Cultural History and Analysis in Honor of Harry White (Vienna: Hollitzer, 2018), pp. 167–182.
  • An Irish-American in Paris: Swan Hennessy (1866–1929) , in: Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland 13 (2017–18), pp. 47–78.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e About . In axelklein.de, accessed on February 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ Axel Klein ; in: musicresearch.ie, accessed on February 4, 2018.
  3. ^ Honorary and Corresponding Members . In: musicologyireland.com, accessed February 4, 2018.
  4. ↑ akzente - the team ; in: akzente.de, accessed on February 4, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster , Germany