Friedrich Geiger (musicologist)
Friedrich Geiger (* 1966 in Munich ) is a German musicologist .
Life
He studied music, historical and systematic musicology and Latin philology in Munich and Hamburg . After receiving his doctorate in 1997 with a thesis on Wladimir Vogel , he headed the research and information center for ostracized music at the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music from 1997 to 2002 and had lectureships at the musicological institutes of the TU Dresden and the University of Hamburg . After completing his habilitation in 2003 with a study on the persecution of composers under Hitler and Stalin , he worked from 2003 to 2007 as a research assistant and lecturer at the musicology seminar of the Free University of Berlin in the DFG special research area Aesthetic Experience in the Sign of the Dissolution of the Boundaries of the Arts. From 2007 to 2020 he taught as a professor of historical musicology at the University of Hamburg. In the 2020 summer semester, he switched to the Chair of Historical Musicology at the Munich University of Music and Theater .
His main research interests are music history from the 18th century to the present, music of antiquity and the reception of antiquity in music, music in dictatorships, historiography of popular music, geography of music history and musical aesthetics and musical judgment.
Fonts (selection)
- The dramma oratorios by Wladimir Vogel 1896–1984 . Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-932696-03-4 .
- Music in two dictatorships. Persecution of composers under Hitler and Stalin . Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1717-7 .
- Verdicts about music. 1950-2000 . Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-476-02110-6 .
- with Michael Custodis : Networks of Denazification. Continuities in German musical life using the example of Werner Egk , Hilde and Heinrich Strobel . Münster 2013, ISBN 3-8309-2843-2 .
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| SURNAME | Geiger, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |