Egon Voss

Egon Voss (born November 7, 1938 in Magdeburg ) is a German musicologist who is particularly known for his contributions to Richard Wagner research.

Live and act

Voss studied musicology and German at the universities of Detmold, Kiel, Münster and Saarbrücken. In 1968 he received his doctorate. For many years he worked as a collaborator and editor of the Wagner Complete Edition .

Voss not only published a number of works and life documents by Wagner, Bach and Schumann, but was also otherwise active in researching the history of music theater.

Books

• Richard Wagner - Documentary biography , Munich: Goldmann 1982
• Wagner and no end. Studies and considerations , Zurich: Atlantis 1996

Essays

• On Beethoven's piano sonata in A flat major op. 110 , in: Die Musikforschung , Vol. 23 (1970), pp. 256–267
• Beethoven's “Eroica” and the genre of the symphony , in: Report on the International Musicological Congress (1971) , pp. 600–603
• On the question of the repetition of the Scherzo and Trio in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony , in: Die Musikforschung , Vol. 33 (1980), pp. 195–199
• An unknown composer? On the new Richard Wagner Complete Edition , in: NZ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 144 (1983), p. 34f.
• Results and tasks of Wagner research , in: Report on the International Musicological Congress Bayreuth 1981 (1984) , pp. 437–439
• "Everywhere the perpetual trumpet of Handel's fame". A reflection on the success of the “ Messiah ” , in: NZ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 146 (1985), pp. 5-9
• An emigrant in his own country. Karl Amadeus Hartmann for his eightieth birthday , in: NZ , Vol. 146 (1985), 7/8, pp. 64-65
• Also an unfinished one. Richard Wagner's recovered symphony fragment in E major WWV 35 , in: NZ , Vol. 149 (1988), 11, pp. 14-18
• Wagner and Bruckner . Your personal relationship based on the traditional testimonies , in: Anton Bruckner. Studies on work and effect. Walter Wiora as of December 30, 1986 , ed. by Christoph-Hellmut Mahling , Tutzing 1988, p. 230
• Difficulties in dealing with the ballet “ The Creatures of Prometheus ” by Salvatore Viganò and Ludwig van Beethoven , in: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft , vol. 53 (1996), pp. 21–40
• Wagner quotes in Bruckner's Third Symphony ? A contribution to the concept of quotations in music , in: Die Musikforschung , vol. 49 (1996), pp. 403–406
• The “black and white flag”. On the creation of Wagner's “ Tristan ” , in: Archive for Musicology , Vol. 54 (1997), pp. 210–227
• Influences of Rossini and Bellini on the work of Wagner , in: Richard Wagner and his "teachers". Report of the conference at the Musicological Institute of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 6./7. June 1997. Egon Voss for his 60th birthday , ed. by Christoph-Hellmut Mahling and Kristina Pfarr, Mainz 1999, pp. 95–118
• Crisis of the symphony around 1850: yes or no? What speaks against Carl Dahlhaus's thesis and what for? , in: Aspects of historical and systematic music research (2002) , pp. 9–18
• Does musicology fail before Richard Wagner's music? , in: The "composer" Richard Wagner in view of current musicology. Symposium Würzburg 2000 , ed. by Ulrich Konrad and Egon Voss, Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 15–24
• Speaking about music - Richard Wagner , in: Music and Understanding (2004) , pp. 123-131
• “Opera in church garb.” On the reception of Verdi's “Requiem” in the German-speaking area , in: The image of Italian opera in Germany (2004) , pp. 191–199
• Prima e seconda prattica? Beethoven's music for wind instruments and their position in the complete works , in: Die Musikforschung , vol. 58 (2005), pp. 353-360
• Between score and performance material or: Opernedition und Werkbegriff (Wagner) , in: Opernedition (2005) , pp. 123–131
• The classical symphony. Overview of Haydn's London Symphonies , in: Haydn's London Symphony (2007) , pp. 23–38
• Socialism and "Free Development of Art". Karl Amadeus Hartmann and his opera “Simplicius Simplicissimus” , in: Music Concepts , Vol. 147 (2010), pp. 82–97
• “So fate knocks at the gate!” Reflections on Anton Schindler's remarks about the beginning of Beethoven's 5th Symphony , in: Bonner Beethoven Studies , Vol. 11 (2014), pp. 185–191

Sheet music editions

• Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , Mainz: Schott 1979, 1983, 1987 (= Wagner Complete Edition , Volume 9)
• Ludwig van Beethoven, chamber music with wind instruments , Munich: Henle 2008 (= New Beethoven Complete Edition , Department 6, Volume 1)

literature

• "Egon Voss", in: The music in past and present , 2nd edition, ed. by Ludwig Finscher , Volume 17 (2007), Col. 234