Dietrich Kämper

Dietrich Kämper (* 1936 in Melle , Lower Saxony ) is a German musicologist .

Life

Dietrich Kämper studied at the Universities of Cologne and Zurich with research stays in Bologna , Florence and Rome . He obtained his doctorate in 1963 on Franz Wüllner - life, work and compositional work at the University of Cologne , where he qualified as a professor in musicology in 1967. Since 1986 he has held the newly established chair for musicology at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . In 1995 he was finally appointed to the University of Cologne. His main research interests were the music of the Renaissance , the music of the 20th century and the music history of the Rhineland.

Musicological author

• Franz Wüllner , Arno-Volk-Verlag , Cologne 1963
• Studies on instrumental ensemble music of the 16th century in Italy , Böhlau Verlag , Vienna / Cologne 1970
• Imprisonment and Freedom - Life and Work of the Composer Luigi Dallapiccola , Guitar-und-Lute-Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 1984
• The piano sonata based on Beethoven , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , Darmstadt 1987

Musicological editor

• Richard Strauss and Franz Wüllner in correspondence , Arno-Volk-Verlag, Cologne 1963
• Max Bruch Studies - On the 50th anniversary of the composer's death , Arno-Volk-Verlag, Cologne 1970
• Rhenish Musicians - Volume 7 , Merseburger Verlag , Kassel 1972
• Rhenish Musicians - Volume 8 , Merseburger Verlag, Kassel 1974
• Rhenish Musicians - Volume 9 , Merseburger Verlag, Kassel 1981
• Frank Martin , the compositional work - 13 studies , report on the International Frank Martin Symposium, October 18-20, 1990 in Cologne-Brauweiler, Schott Music , Mainz 1993
• The musical futurism , Laaber-Verlag , Laaber 1999
• Early music and performance practice - Festschrift for Dieter Gutknecht on his 65th birthday , Lit Verlag , Münster / Berlin / Vienna / Zurich 2007
• Max Bruch and Philipp Spitta in correspondence , Merseburger Verlag, Kassel 2013

Festschriften for birthday

• Music - culture - society. Interdisciplinary aspects from the music history of the Rhineland; Dietrich Kämper on his 60th birthday , ed. from the Working Group for Rhenish Music History , Norbert Jers , Merseburger-Verlag, Kassel 1996
• Aspetti musicali - musical historical dimensions of Italy 1600 to 2000; Festschrift for Dietrich Kämper on his 65th birthday , ed. by Norbert Bolin, Verlag Dohr , Cologne 2001

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietrich Kämper in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief vita at merseburger.de
2. ↑ Bruch and Spitta in correspondence
3. ↑ Dietrich Kämper in the studio ( Memento from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )