Fred Büttner

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Fred Büttner

Fred Büttner (born April 24, 1957 in Munich ; † August 31, 2013 there ) was a German musicologist .

Live and act

Fred Büttner studied musicology at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1988 and also completed his habilitation in 1999. From 1984 to 1994 he was assistant at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Munich, from 1998 to 2009 lecturer in music history, and since 2003 also for Catholic church music history at the University of Music and Theater in Munich .

At the end of his studies, Büttner founded the ensemble for medieval music Schola vocalis and directed it from 1983 to 1992. The ensemble, which interpreted medieval music close to the source, was invited to workshops and concerts in many places across Germany, it performed several times in England and Spain and in 1985 produced two television programs with Austrian television (ORF). In 1992 the ensemble released the CD Hare hare hye , which was recorded in the Mönchsdeggingen monastery and pilgrimage church .

From 1988 to 1996, the musicologist headed the research project he initiated on the clauses of the Saint Victor manuscript (Paris) at the Musicological Institute of the University of Munich. The results of the investigation were published in an extensive study in which ten colleagues from the research group he led were involved. From 1998 to 2003 he was the editor of articles for the specialist journal Musik in Bayern on behalf of the Society for Bavarian Music History in Munich. In addition, he published numerous scientific papers in other specialist journals.

In the 2003/04 winter semester, Fred Büttner was invited to the Seijō University of Tokyo as a visiting professor , where he made “great merits in teaching European musical culture”. In 2007 he was appointed full professor at the Università del Salento in Lecce , Italy. From 2007 to 2010 he was Professor of Medieval Music History.

In addition to medieval music history as his specialty, Büttner dealt with a number of other specialist areas. These include the history of French music (especially the 17th and 18th centuries), the history of opera including Italian librettism and the music of the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, he made contributions to other areas and genres of music history, in particular to research into musical culture in Bavaria in its European context. In an obituary, the Institute for Music History at the University of Munich praised the scientist as an “outstanding researcher and committed teacher”.

Fred Büttner was also active as a lyricist. He is the author of various lyrical texts (poems in his mother tongue, song texts in German and English), including the French texts from the medieval motets, which Büttner retouched in German for the performances of the Schola vocalis ensemble . As a translator he worked alongside Marlis Fest and Christine Mrowietz on the German edition of the Mozart Compendium by HC Robbins Landon .

Büttner's students include the conductor and musicologist Knut Andreas .

Fred Büttner was married to the musicologist Mariacarla De Giorgi and had a son Giulio. His father was the emcee and lyricist Rudi Büttner .

Fonts

Monographs
  • Sound and Construction in 13th Century English Polyphony: A Contribution to Exploring Voice Swap Compositions in the Worcester Fragments. (= Munich publications on music history. 47). Tutzing 1990, ISBN 3-7952-0645-6 .
  • The clauses of the Saint-Victor manuscript (Paris, BN, lat. 15139). Tutzing, 1999, ISBN 3-7952-0982-X .
  • The repertoire of clauses in the Saint-Victor manuscript. A study on polyphonic composition in the 13th century. Lecce 2011, ISBN 978-88-7048-487-8 .
  • with Bernhold Schmid (ed.): Orlando di Lasso, Complete Works. Volume XI: Motets VI. (Magnum opus musicum, part VI). Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden / Leipzig / Paris 2012, ISMN 979-0-004-80299-1 .
translation
  • HC Robbins Landon : The Mozart Compendium: His Life - His Music. Translation into German by Fred Büttner, Marlis Fest and Christine Mrowietz. Munich 1991, ISBN 3-426-26530-3 .
Essays
  • A South German motet record from the 14th century and its relationship to the older French tradition. In: Music in Bavaria. 32, 1986, pp. 91-107.
  • A hero's life, Op. 40, by Richard Strauss: Subject and Music. In: Music in Bavaria. 34, 1987, pp. 27-58.
  • Early Music - Why? Suggestions for a philosophy of early music. In: Alte Musik Aktuell: Current information about early music. 3/1987, pp. 18-20.
  • The motet Dat superis / Hec dies in the manuscripts W2 and LoD. In: Church Music Yearbook. 73, 1989, pp. 1-14.
  • On the history of the Marian antiphon 'Salve regina'. In: Archives for Musicology . 46, 1989, pp. 257-270.
  • For today's re-performance of medieval music. In: M 68 - Forum for music texts. July 1989, pp. 36-38.
  • What is the meaning of the heading 'Cignea' for Notker's sequence 'Gaude maria virgo'? In: The music research. 45, 1992, pp. 162f.
  • 'Between Gaeta and Kapua': Grillparzer's poem as a song composition. In: New Musicological Yearbook. 1, 1992, pp. 87-117.
  • A Polish Englishman looking for a Munich ancestor. In: Music in Bavaria. 55, 1998, p. 178f.
  • The quiet of the sea and a happy journey: Theodor Göllner on his 70th birthday. In: Music in Bavaria. 58, 1999, pp. 5-41.
  • Abbé Vogler's' Coro de 'Mostri' from Castore e Polluce (1787) and the importance of the underworld in operas of the 18th century. In: Archives for Musicology. 57, 2000, pp. 222-239.
  • Suzanne Forsberg: Joseph Anton Camerloher (1710–1743): A rediscovered symphonist of the early classical period. Translation by Christian Berktold and Fred Büttner. In: Music in Bavaria. 60, 2000, pp. 7-38.
  • On the genre-historical context of the 'Coro de' Mostri 'from Georg Joseph Vogler's Castore e Polluce from 1787. In: Mozart's Idomeneo and the music in Munich at the time of Karl Theodor: Report on the symposium of the Society for Bavarian Music History and the Music History Commission of the Bavarian Academy of the sciences. Munich, 7.-9. July 1999, a cura di Theodor Göllner e Stephan Hörner. Munich 2001, pp. 177-183.
  • Rhythmic hymn melodies. In: Church Music Yearbook. 85, 2001, pp. 93-126.
  • Secular influences in Notre Dame music? Reflections on a clause in the Codex F In: Anuario Musical. 57, 2002, pp. 19-37.
  • Graener, Paul Hermann Franz. In: Bavarian Musicians-Lexicon Online. a cura di Josef Focht and Hartmut Schick (www.BMLO.Uni-Muenchen.de, 2005).
  • Verse Structure and Musical Rhythm in Latin Hymn Melodies. In: Anuario Musical. 61, 2006, pp. 3-22.
  • The end of Wagner's Götterdämmerung and its connection with the baroque 'License' In: Anuario Musical. 66, 2011, pp. 203-210.
  • The meaning of the instrumental play in the act of hell from Rameau's Castor et Pollux In: Anuario Musical. 68, 2013, pp. 203-216.

CD

  • Schola Vocalis (under the direction of Fred Büttner): Hare hare hye. 13th century motets. MDL Erika-Musikverlag, Nuremberg 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Booklet for the CD Schola Vocalis. Hare hare hye, Nuremberg 1992.
  2. ↑ The clause repertoire of handwriting Saint-Victor (Paris, BN, lat. 15139). A study on polyphonic composition in the 13th century. Tutzing 1999.
  3. ^ Testimonial, concerning the scientific and academic qualification of PD Dr. Fred Büttner, July 9, 2006.
  4. ^ Obituary of the Institute for Musicology from September 11, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Booklet for the CD Schola Vocalis. Hare hare hye, MDL Erika-Musikverlag, Nuremberg 1992.
personal data
SURNAME Buttner, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2013
Place of death Munich