Erich Reimer (musicologist)

Erich Reimer (born March 9, 1940 in Menden ) is a German musicologist .

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From 1959 Reimer studied school and church music as well as musicology and German at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg at the Freiburg University of Music . He then completed his doctorate in musicology in 1969 with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht with a dissertation on Johannes de Garlandias De mensurabili musica (around 1240), the basic textbook on the notation of the modal rhythm of the Notre Dame epoch .

From 1970 to 1976 Reimer was a research associate at the concise dictionary of musical terminology published by Eggebrecht from 1972 and worked on articles in the context of the project "Musical terminology under socio-historical aspects". Based on this, he wrote numerous socio-historical essays on the history of music in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Then Reimer was a lecturer until 1980 and then professor for music history until 1986 at the University of Gießen , where he completed his habilitation in 1986. The institutional history work on court music in Germany 1500–1800 was part of the written habilitation achievement.

Between 1986 and 1991 Reimer represented professorships in Göttingen, Marburg, Saarbrücken and Tübingen and taught from 1991 to 2005 as a professor of historical musicology at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne . Other focal points of research were Mendelssohn's oratorios, Bach's arias and symphony reception in Germany in the first half of the 19th century.

Publications (selection)

Books

• Johannes de Garlandia: De mensurabili musica. Critical edition with commentary and interpretation of the theory of notation. Part I: Source studies and edition, Part II: Commentary and interpretation of the theory of notation (= supplements to the archive for musicology, Vol. 10 and 11) , Wiesbaden 1972. ISBN 978-3-515-00225-7
• Court music in Germany 1500–1800. Changes in an institution (= pocket books on musicology, edited by Richard Schaal, vol. 112) , Wilhelmshaven 1991. ISBN 978-3-7959-0542-2
• From the Bible text to the oratorio scene. Text editing and text dubbing in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's "Paulus" and "Elias" , Cologne 2002. ISBN 978-3-925366-87-1
• The ritornello arias of the Weimar cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach 1714–1716, Cologne 2007. ISBN 978-3-936655-46-9
• Musicus and Cantor. Contributions to the genre and social history of music from the Middle Ages to the present (= musicolonia, ed. By Arnold Jacobshagen and Christine Stöger, Vol. 2), Cologne 2008. ISBN 978-3-936655-53-7
• The design of arias in Bach's year of cantatas I (1723/1724), Cologne 2016. ISBN 978-3-936655-46-9

items

in the concise dictionary of musical terminology, ed. by Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht ( ISBN 3515101675 )

• Concerto / Concert (1973).
• House music (1976).
• Chamber music (1971).
• Connoisseur - Lover - Dilettante (1974).
• Musicus - Cantor (1978).
• Oratorio (1972).
• Tafelmusik (1971).
• Virtuoso (1972).

literature

• Citizens between court and hot club. Music and Society 1500–1950. A research report, in: Archives for Social History 35 . Gerrit Walther (1995), pp. 389–391 (about Reimer, Die Hofmusik in Deutschland 1500–1800).
• Social horizons of music. An annotated reading book on the sociology of music , ed. by Christian Kaden u. Karsten Mackensen (= Bärenreiter Study Books Music, Vol. 15), Kassel 2006, pp. 19–21.

Web links

• Writings by Erich Reimer in the catalog of the University of Heidelberg
• Literature list from bibliography of music literature
• Short biography published by Dohr-Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ^ The court music in Germany 1500–1800: Changes in an institution Paperback books on musicology: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Schaal, Erich Reimer: books. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .