Bernd Sponheuer

Bernd Sponheuer (born February 6, 1948 in Herford ) is a German musicologist .

career

Sponheuer studied from 1969 to 1976, from 1970 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , musicology (among others with Anna Amalie Abert , Kurt Gudewill and Walter Salmen ), German literature and philosophy at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1973 he completed his German studies with a Magister Artium (subject: “Pragmatic and rhetorical elements in the language of city advertising”). In 1976 he was at Kurt Gudewill in musicology with a study on the history of genres and aesthetics of the symphony to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1978 he published the dissertation under the title “Logic of Decay. Investigations on the final problem in Gustav Mahler's symphonies ”.

In 1984 he completed his habilitation in musicology with a thesis on “Music as Art and Non-Art. Investigations into the aesthetic dichotomy of 'higher' and 'lower' music in the musical aesthetic thinking between Kant and Hanslick ”. From 1985 to 1987 he was visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts . Then he was a research assistant at the Musicological Institute of the University of Kiel. In 1990 he was offered a chair in musicology at the Folkwang University in Essen. In the same year he became professor for historical musicology at the University of Kiel. His main research interests are the general history of music from the 17th to the 20th centuries, music aesthetics and music during the National Socialist era.

From 1994 to 1997 he was editor of the magazine Die Musikforschung and from 1996 to 1998 Vice Dean of the Philosophical Faculty.

Web links

• Bernd Sponheuer CAU Kiel
• Bernd Sponheuer in the WorldCat