Bertil van Boer

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Bertil H. van Boer Jr. (born October 2, 1952 in Tallahassee , Florida , USA, the son of a Swede and a US citizen) is an American musicologist , violinist , composer and conductor and teaches as a professor at Western Washington University .

Life

He studied at the University of California, Berkeley , California, (1974: Bachelor's degree), at the University of Oregon , (1978: Master's in Music History). He also studied composition with Cesar Bresgen at the Salzburg Mozarteum . After working at Cornell University , Ithaca , he went to Uppsala University in Sweden, where he received his doctorate in musicology in 1983.

The College of Fine Arts at Wichita State University , ( Kansas ), the Conservatorio Nacional of Nicaragua , Shasta College , Redding , California, and Brigham Young University , are also among his stations as a musicologist before joining the college as a professor of Fine and Performing Arts from Western Washington University.

He is currently Dean and Faculty Senate member of Western Washington University.

Bertil van Boer is married to Margaret L. Fast.

Main topics

Bertil van Boer is a specialist in 18th century music.

He was best known as the editor of a systematic-thematic catalog raisonné of the compositions by Joseph Martin Kraus . The VB directory has over 200 numbers and an appendix with a further 15 addenda. (See below: Publications ).

Van Boer also dealt with composers such as Christoph Willibald Gluck , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn, as well as some Swedish contemporaries, including Johan Helmich Roman and Johan Agrell . Most recently he made the composer and musician Ignacio de Jerusalem known in Germany , who lived in South America in the 18th century.

His own compositions have been performed in Sweden, Austria, the USA and Nicaragua. He stayed in Stuttgart for a long time in the summer of 2006 because, as editor of the works of Joseph Martin Kraus, he was also involved in the preparation of the world premiere of the opera Aeneas in Carthago (1781–1791) in July 2006 at the Stuttgart State Opera .

Compositions

  • 1977: Oberatura Folklorica de la Purisima (Managua, Nicaragua)
  • 1978: Concerto for horn and strings
  • 1999: Aphelion and perihelion for percussion
  • 2000: pantomime ballet Troubadour's Tale
  • 2004: Four songs for soprano, violin and 3 clarinets

Publications

  • The works of Joseph Martin Kraus. Systematic-thematic catalog raisonné. Kungl. Musikaliska Academies, Stockholm 1988.
  • Dramatic Cohesion in the Music of Joseph Martin Kraus. Lewiston 1989 (Series: Studies in History and Interpretation of Music Vol. 15), ISBN 0-88946-440-5 .
  • (Ed.): Gustav III and the Swedish Stage. Opera, Theater, and Other Foibles. Lewiston 1993 (Series: Studies in History and Interpretation of Music Vol. 40, ISBN 0-7734-9314-X )
  • The Operas of Joseph Martin Kraus. In: Gustavian Opera - Swedish Opera, Dance and Theater 1771–1809. Stockholm 1991, ISBN 91-85428-64-7 .
  • Gustavian Opera: An Overview. In: Gustavian Opera - Swedish Opera, Dance and Theater 1771–1809. Stockholm 1991, ISBN 91-85428-64-7 .
  • The Case of the Circumstantial Meeting: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Martin Kraus in Vienna. In: Eighteenth-Century Music. Cambridge 2004.

Memberships

personal data
SURNAME Boer, Bertil van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES van Boer Jr .; Bertil H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musicologist, violinist, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallahassee , USA