Christian Berger (musicologist)

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Christian Berger (born December 13, 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German musicologist and professor (full professor) at the University of Freiburg .

After studying music education (state exam Freiburg 1975) and musicology in Freiburg, Hamburg, Berlin and Kiel was he in Kiel in 1982 Friedhelm Krummenacher with a thesis on Hector Berlioz ' fantastique Symphonie doctorate . From 1981 to 1994 he was assistant to Fritz Reckow , after his habilitation on the French chanson of the 14th century in 1989 as senior assistant. From 1990 to 1995 he was a professor in Heidelberg, Bonn, Regensburg, Detmold and Greifswald, until in 1995 he accepted the chair for musicology at the University of Freiburg. 1998 to 2001 was editor of the magazine Die Musikforschung .

In Freiburg he studied violin with Ulrich Grehling and was a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie from 1975 to 1978 , which won first prize in the Karajan Competition in 1976 with a performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 under Christoph Prick. From 1991 to 1994 he was concertmaster of the Collegium musicum at Kiel University under Bernhard Emmer.

His research focuses on music theory of the late Middle Ages , in particular the hexachord and mode theory, the French chanson of the 14th and early 15th centuries, German and Italian instrumental music of the 17th century, and French music and musical perception of the 18th and 19th centuries. Century with the focus on Berlioz , Wagner and Webern . The latest research projects revolve on the one hand around the importance of the numerous ways in which art and music were constructed in the Middle Ages up to the 16th century, with a focus on Josquin Desprez , and on the other hand around the consequences that Berlioz's illness, a clearly diagnosable form of epilepsy, had on him had compositional work.

He is a member of the France and Medieval Center at the University of Freiburg, and together with Christoph Wolff, he is the editor of the Voces series. Freiburg contributions to musicology .

Publications (selection)

  • Fantastic as a construction. Hector Berlioz '“Symphonie fantastique” (= Kiel writings on musicology. 27). Bärenreiter, Kassel 1983, ISBN 3-7618-0726-0 .
  • Hexachord, scale length and text structure. Studies on the French song in the 14th century (= archive for musicology . Supplement 35). Steiner, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-515-06097-9 .
  • (Ed.): Music beyond the limit of language. (= Voces. Freiburg contributions to musicology. 6). Rombach, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-7930-9411-1 . Therein: Introduction, pp. 7-24; Musical shape or rhetorical figure: The “Passus duriusculus” , pp. 123-134 (review: Stefan Morent, in: Mf 61 [2008], pp. 425-426).
  • (Ed.): Oswald von Wolkenstein. The reception of an international song repertoire in the German-speaking area around 1400 with an edition of 11 selected songs (= Voces. Freiburg contributions to musicology. 14). Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7930-9646-7 ; therein: Introduction, pp. 7-16; (with Tomas Tomasek): Oswald's “You chosen beautiful my heart” (Kl. 46) , pp. 85–96, Critical Edition of selected pieces by Oswald and their originals , pp. 97–192.
  • A Venetian songbook from the early 15th century. The manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, nouv. acq. frç. 4917 [Pz]. Edition and Commentary , ed. by Christian Berger, editing and translation of the French lyrics by Frank-Rutger Hausmann, translation of the Italian lyrics by Thomas Klinkert (= Musikalische Denkmäler 12), Mainz 2016.

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SURNAME Berger, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau