Beat Föllmi

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Beat A. Föllmi (born June 9, 1965 in Zurich ) is a Swiss musicologist and theologian .

Life

Beat Föllmi studied musicology (with Kurt von Fischer and Max Lütolf ) and Protestant theology (with Hans Weder and Alfred Schindler ) at the University of Zurich from 1985 to 1991 . In 1990 he also became an assistant for the New Testament at the theological faculty. A year later he completed his studies with a licentiate on "The Continuation of Augustine's Musical View in the 16th Century". The musicological work supervised by Lütolf was published in 1994 in the series “Europäische Hochschulschriften” by Peter Lang Verlag . In it, Föllmi used his knowledge of Latin and Greek to «systematically» examine the influence of the teacher's statements about music on music theory in the 16th century. In the winter semester 1995/96 he was in musicology, also at Lütolf, with the interdisciplinary oriented dissertation "tradition as a hermeneutical category for Arnold Schoenberg " to Dr. phil. PhD. According to Mathias Hansen , Föllmi's study offers "a complex representation that can hardly be supplemented."

Supported by a grant from the Commission for the Promotion of Young Academics in the Canton of Zurich , Föllmi conducted research from 1997 to 2000 at the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg. In 2003, the musicologist Márta Grabócz supervised his habilitation on narrative and philology in music. In 2008 he became Maître de conférences and in 2012 he was professor of church music and hymnology at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Strasbourg. There he is responsible for the master’s degree in Protestant theology. Various guest professorships took him to Laval University in Quebec, Canada, and Kyoto University , Japan, between 2016 and 2018 . His main research interests are the reception of biblical themes in music, psalmody , contemporary sacred music, hymnology, and music and identity.

Föllmi is a member of the Arnold Schönberg Society in Vienna (since 1994), the American Society for Musicology (since 1999), the Société française de musicologie in Paris (since 1999), the Zwinglivereins in Zurich (since 1996), the International Working Group for hymnology (since 2014) and the Reformed Church Music Association of Switzerland (since 2015). From 1999 to 2009 he was an advisory board member for «Switzerland» in the editorial team of the music lexicon The music in the past and present and from 1997 to 2010 member of the project «Musical Signification». Together with Ansgar Franz from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, he has been the project manager of the Hymnological Database (HDB), a comprehensive database for church hymns and hymns, since 2014 . In 2016 he was a founding member of the research group AVEDEMETER (visual arts, dance, music, theater, religion). In addition, he has been a member of the research group Équipe d'accueil 4378 “Théologie protestante” since 2008 and of the GREAM cluster of excellence (Experimental Research Group on the Musical Act) since 2012.

Schoeck research

In 1988 he became a member of the scientific-critical complete edition of the works of the Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck , of which he has been the editor since 2001. Föllmi, who took over the scientific management from his teacher, also presented several individual volumes (volumes 10, 14 and 23) within the complete edition. From 1999 to 2014 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Othmar Schoeck Complete Edition of the Swiss Academy for Humanities and Social Sciences in Bern. In 1995 he became a member of the board of the Othmar Schoeck Society in Zurich. He also organized two international symposia on Othmar Schoeck (in Lucerne in 1999 and Zurich in 2001). His “Practical Directory of Othmar Schoeck's Works”, published in 1997 in the “Publication Series of the Othmar Schoeck Society”, is particularly suitable for singers, according to the criticism. In 2013 he published the composer's first biography in French. In 2014 it was awarded the Prix ​​des Muses (category: “découverte”) of the Singer Polignac Foundation in Paris.

Fonts (selection)

  • The continued effect of Augustine's view of music in the 16th century ( European university publications , series 36, musicology. Vol. 116). Lang, Berlin a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-906752-54-2 .
  • Tradition as a hermeneutic category for Arnold Schönberg. Haupt, Bern u. a. 1996, ISBN 3-258-05461-4 .
  • Practical directory of the works of Othmar Schoeck ( series of publications by the Othmar Schoeck Society. H. 2). Othmar Schoeck Society, Zurich 1997.
  • Ed .: Enlarge the words. Schoeck's operas in the mirror of cultural studies. Report on the second International Symposium Othmar Schoeck in Lucerne, August 13 and 14, 1999 ( series of publications by the Othmar Schoeck Society, issue 3). Othmar Schoeck Society, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-9522145-3-1 .
  • Ed .: Complete works by Othmar Schoeck. Hug, Zurich 2001ff., ISBN 3-906415-39-2 .
  • Ed .: The string quartet in the first half of the 20th century. Report on the Third International Symposium Othmar Schoeck in Zurich, October 19 and 20, 2001 ( series of publications by the Othmar Schoeck Society, issue 4). Schneider, Tutzing 2004, ISBN 3-7952-1114-X .
  • Ed. With Nils Grosch and Mathieu Schneider: Music and the construction of national identities in the 19th century. [Actes du Colloque International "Musique et Construction des Identités Nationales au XIXe Siècle" (Université Marc-Bloch, Strasbourg, October 18-19, 2007)] ( Collection d'études musicologiques. Vol. 98). Koerner, Baden-Baden et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-87320-598-7 .
  • Othmar Schoeck. Le maître du lied ( Série mélophiles ). Éditions Papillon, Geneva 2013, ISBN 978-2-940310-45-6 .
  • Ed. With Jacques Viret : Le chant liturgique aujourd'hui et la tradition grégorienne ( Collection GREAM ). Editions Hermann, 2016, ISBN 978-2-7056-9268-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The authors of the contributions. In: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 55th year, 1998, no. 1, p. 87.
  2. ↑ Beat Föllmi: The Continuation of the Music View of Augustine in the 16th Century, 1994, p. 190.
  3. ↑ Beat Föllmi: The Continuation of the Music View of Augustine in the 16th Century, 1994, p. 5.
  4. ^ Martin Staehelin : Musico-Theologica. In: Theologische Rundschau, New Series, Vol. 64, 1999, No. 4, pp. 421–424, here: pp. 421f.
  5. ^ Beat A. Föllmi: Tradition as a hermeneutic category in Arnold Schönberg, 1996, p. 11.
  6. ^ Mathias Hansen: Tradition as a hermeneutic category in Arnold Schönberg by Beat Föllmi. In: Die Musikforschung, 53rd vol., 2000, no. 2, p. 217.
  7. ↑ Research supervision , martagrabocz.com, accessed on August 17, 2018.
  8. ↑ Beat Föllmi , theopro.unistra.fr, accessed on August 18, 2018.
  9. ↑ See Schoeck's Penthesilea. In: Schweizer Musikzeitung 12/2014 ( online ).
  10. ^ Peter Palmer: Record Review. In: Tempo, Nue Series, No. 202, 1997, p. 41f.
personal data
SURNAME Föllmi, Beat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Föllmi, Beat A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich