Christoph Dohr

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Christoph Dohr (born May 15, 1964 in Krefeld ) is a German musicologist and publisher .

Vita

After graduating from high school at Arndt-Gymnasium in Krefeld , Dohr studied musicology , Middle and New History as well as ethnology at the University of Cologne , graduating with a Magister Artium in 1989. From 1989 to 1991 he researched the Jacques Offenbach holdings in the historical archive of Cologne . More intensive musicological research connects him with the musical life of his hometown Krefeld and with the composer Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck ; He is also a musical instrument expert with a focus on stringed keyboard instruments.

Professional and voluntary work

In 1990, Dohr founded Verlag Dohr , a four-branch music publisher based in Cologne (1990-2010) and Bergheim (since 2010). In 1989 and 2003, music festivals designed and organized by Dohr took place in Krefeld ("opus '89"; focus: Krefeld composers) and in Cologne ("Rinck Festival Cologne 2003" to revive the work of Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck ).

Since 2005, Dohr has presented the “Dohr Collection” to the public in Haus Eller in Bergheim -Ahe, a collection of historical keyboard instruments in originals and replicas that are true to the original, in particular through regular concert events. The collection is called the "Pianomuseum Haus Eller".

As a musicologist and publisher, Dohr campaigns for contemporary composers on the one hand and for the rediscovery of composers from the 18th and 19th centuries, e.g. B. Norbert Burgmüller , Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck , Friedrich Kiel , Leopold Anton Kozeluch , Carl Gottlieb Reissiger and Louis Spohr .

Dohr is involved on a voluntary basis, including as head of the choir publishers working group in the German Music Publishers' Association (2005-2011), as chairman of the board of trustees of the Johann Lütter Foundation Heinsberg (since 2001) and the Carl Gottlieb Reissiger Foundation Belzig (2006 –2014), as an advisory board member in the Int. Jacques Offenbach Society (2008–2010) and the Working Group for Rhenish Music History (2005–2010) as well as deputy on the administrative board for professional group 6 (scientific publishers) in VG Wort / Wissenschaft (since 2015).

Awards (selection)

  • 2004 Special award for extraordinary publishing achievements of the German Music Publishers Association for the idea, concept and realization of the "Rinck Festival Cologne 2003". Verlag Dohr has received five more awards (most recently in 2009) for its publishing program.

Fonts (selection)

  • Musical life and composers in Krefeld. The 20th century . (Contributions to Rhenish Music History No. 144, also Krefeld Studies Vol. 5). Krefeld and Kassel 1992.
  • The instrument collection of the Musicological Institute in Cologne . in: Werner Schäfke (ed.): The musical instrument collection of the Cologne City Museum, Kassel and Cologne 1993, pp. 19–44.
  • (as ed. :) Contributions to Offenbach research . Cologne 1998ff., ISSN  1436-8714
  • (together with Thomas Schipperges): Bibliotheca Offenbachiana. Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) - a systematic-chronological bibliography , Cologne 1998. ISBN 3-925366-48-2 .
  • Christian Erdmann Rancke and his fortepiano , Cologne 2003. ISBN 978-3-936655-09-4 .
  • Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck . Documents on life and work . Cologne 2003. ISBN 978-3-936655-07-0 .
  • Eight square pianos from the Dohr collection . in: Schmuhl / Lustig (ed.), History and Construction of the Table Piano (Michaelsteiner Conference Reports Vol. 68), Augsburg 2006, pp. 389–405.
  • (as ed. :) Rinckiana. Festschrift on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Christian Heinrich Rinck Society . Cologne 2006. ISBN 978-3-936655-41-4 .
  • An innovative piano manufacturer at the beginning of Cologne's French era. Wilhelm Constantin Schiffer in the mirror of his preserved table pianos . in: Jacobshagen / Steinbeck / von Zahn (eds.): Music in the French Cologne (1794–1814), Kassel 2010, pp. 201–228.
  • (as ed. :) Rinckiana II. Festschrift on the occasion of the fifteen-year existence of the Christian-Heinrich-Rinck-Gesellschaft . Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-936655-64-3 .
  • (as ed. :) Almanac for music. Yearbook. Cologne 2011 ff.
  • The Merten organ of the Christ Church in Kerpen-Sindorf . Festschrift on the occasion of the four organ inauguration concerts . Cologne 2014. ISBN 978-3-86846-128-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dohr, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld