Emil Platen

Emil Platen (born September 16, 1925 in Düsseldorf ) is a German musicologist and conductor .

Life

Platen received his first music lessons at the youth music school in Düsseldorf in the subjects violin and music theory / composition (from Reger's student Otto Leonhardt ). After work and military service (1943–45), he enrolled in musicology at the University of Cologne in 1946 , switched to the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold in 1947 , where he studied composition with Wilhelm Maler , viola with Hermann Hirschfelder and choral conducting with Kurt Thomas . After graduating as a choir conductor, he resumed his musicological studies at the University of Bonn in 1951 , which he completed in 1957 with a dissertation on “Choral arrangements by Joh. Seb. Bach "and the doctorate to Dr. Phil graduated. During his studies he worked as a freelance violist in various ensembles in Bonn and at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne . Further stations in his professional career were: 1959 research assistant at the Beethoven archive in Bonn , 1963 academic music director and 1971 honorary professor for musicology at the University of Bonn. In 1969 he founded the North Rhine-Westphalia Youth Symphony Orchestra together with Hans-Josef Menke. After retiring, he worked from 1994 to 2003 as a lecturer in music history at the Cologne University of Music .

With the Collegium musicum Bonn of the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , which he himself founded in 1953, he undertook numerous concert tours in Europe and overseas. His research focuses on the theory of forms in music and the works of JS Bach and L. van Beethoven.

Publications (in selection)

• Investigations into the structure of the choral arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach's choir, Diss.Bonn 1957,
• The St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach. Work introduction , Munich and Kassel 1991, 4th verb. u. supplementary edition 2012
• Studies on Bach and Beethoven , Chemnitz 2000.
• Ludwig van Beethoven , editor of several volumes of the Urtext edition and the complete edition. Munich: Henle

literature

• Martella Gutiérrez-Denhoff (Ed.): Collegium Musicologicum. Festschrift Emil Platen for his sixtieth birthday. Beethoven Archive, Bonn 1985.
• Bernhard Hartmann: The Bonn musicologist Emil Platen is 90 years old. General indicator. Bonn , September 16, 2015.

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• Riemann Musiklexikon , supplementary volume, personal section, Mainz 1975
• Honegger-Massenkeil, Das Große Lexikon der Musik , Vol. 6, Freiburg 1976
• Music in the past and present , 2nd edition, personal section
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar