Benedikt Brilmayer

Benedikt Brilmayer (* 1980 in Munich ) is a German musicologist with a focus on instrument science (organology) at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin .

Life

Brilmayer studied musicology, cultural management and psychology at the Liszt School of Music Weimar and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . As a student, he was already working on a joint research project at the Weimar University of Music and the Weimar Classic Foundation in the field of organology. From 2011 he worked on his dissertation at the University of Augsburg , where he also taught. He was born in 2015 at the University of Augsburg with the thesis “Das Trautonium. Processes of Technology Transfer in Musical Instrument Construction ”. Also from 2015 he worked initially as an institute assistant, from 2017 finally as a research assistant and curator at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin. He curated the exhibition “Good Vibrations. A History of Electronic Musical Instruments ”. He publishes instrument studies with a focus on electronic musical instruments and teaches at several colleges and universities, such as the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts and the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Fonts

• The trautonium. Processes of technology transfer in musical instrument making. Augsburg 2017

• Good vibrations. A History of Electronic Musical Instruments / A History of Electronic Musical Instruments , Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-422-07401-9 (Ed. With Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo and Conny Restle)

• Johann David Heinichen's Thorough Instructions (1711) translated by Benedikt Brilmayer and Casey Mongoven, Hillsdale, NY 2012.

Web links

• [1] on the website of the Berlin University of the Arts