Eckhardt van den Hoogen

Eckhardt van den Hoogen (* 1951 in Essen ) is a German musicologist, music journalist and translator.

Career

After a few semesters of school music in the old building of the Cologne University of Music , van den Hoogen studied musicology, German literature and art history at the University of Cologne , where he received his doctorate in 1980 under Heinrich Hüschen with a thesis on Franz Schreker's orchestral works in their time (Cologne Contributions to Music Research Volume 111) . During his studies he worked as a freelance music critic for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . Later he worked, among other things, as a freelance production assistant for various music departments at Westdeutscher Rundfunk and as a translator, author and copywriter for EMI Electrola, which was then still in Cologne, and other labels. In 1985, the ORF commissioned him with a year-round series for the series "Listening to Music - Understanding Music", in which he presented an outline of the musical developments of the 20th century.

In 1991 he founded the Pro Classics agency together with his wife Angela. The focus here is on press work for artists, recording companies and cultural institutions. The activities as translator, copywriter and author of musical introductory texts and essays are also involved, in which Eckhardt van den Hoogen deals not only with the “classical” celebrities, but above all with “discoveries”. Larger articles were created for EMI, Hänssler Classic Koch International and other companies. The mostly extensive works for cpo on composers such as Max Bruch , Aram Chatschaturjan , Carl Davidoff , Siegmund von Hausegger , Paul Juon , Dmitrij Kabalewskij , Heinrich Kaminski , Wilhelm Kienzl , Sergej Prokofieff , Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek , Hans Rott , Franz play a special role Schmidt , Felix Weingartner , Richard Wetz .

Fonts

• "The orchestral works of Franz Schreker in their time". Work analysis studies . Regensburg 1981. (Cologne Contributions to Music Research, Volume 111)
• "The ABC of Classical Music". Frankfurt am Main 2002.
• “ABC of opera. The great musical dramas and their composers ”. Frankfurt am Main 2003.
• “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and some of his contemporaries. Life and work". Munster 2006.

Web links

• Books by Eckhardt van den Hoogen
• The Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper on the ABC of classical music
• The Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung for 25 years of Pro Classics
• The ABC of opera
• Catalog of the German National Library