Gerd Rienäcker

Gerd Rienäcker (born May 3, 1939 in Göttingen ; † February 3, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German musicologist .

Life

Gerd Rienäcker was born in Göttingen as the son of the chemist Günther Rienäcker . Gerd Rienäcker studied musicology from 1959 to 1964 (minor: art history ) with Ernst Hermann Meyer , Georg Knepler , Walther Vetter , Peter H. Feist and Carl Heinz Claasen at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB), at the same time composition with Hans Georg Görner .

From 1964 to 1966 Gerd Rienäcker worked as a music dramaturge (for opera, operetta, concert) at the State Theater in Eisenach . In 1966 he became a researcher and from 1967 to 1985 research assistant at the Institute for Musicology at Humboldt University. There he was in 1973 with a dissertation on dramaturgical principles in operas by Paul Dessau , Siegfried Matthus , Udo Zimmermann and Robert Hanell doctorate . In 1984 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the dramaturgy of the finale in operas by ETA Hoffmann , Louis Spohr , Carl Maria von Weber and Heinrich Marschner . In 1985 he was appointed university lecturer, in 1988 associate professor and in 1990 full professor for theory and history of music theater at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 1996 he has taught at several German universities.

His research interests focused on the one hand on the theory of music theater as an institution and genre, the history of opera and operetta, Wagner's operas and dramas and Bertolt Brecht's importance for music theater; on the other hand, the European history of composition in modern times and methodological problems of music historiography and music analysis. These interests resulted in both the content and methods of his courses (including on the dramaturgy of music theater, the history of notation and instrumentation, the analysis of works of opera and operetta, the analysis of musical theater productions) and the topics of several books and many Essays.

His academic students include: a. Peter Wicke , Daniela Reinhold , Antje Kaiser , Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer , Sebastian Klotz and Aniara Amos .

Rienäcker had two siblings: Anne Rienäcker (* 1951), a doctor of medicine , married. Wilke and the physicist Jürgen Rienäcker (* 1936), whose son, the computer scientist Uwe Rienäcker , is married to the artist Sandra Rienäcker .

Publications (selection)

Book publications

• Thoughts on some symphonic works by Soviet composers: introductory material for cultural officials. Berlin: Central Board of Directors Ges. For German Soviet. Friendship, Cultural Policy Department, Music Working Group, 1969
• The 11th and 12th symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich. Introductory material f. Cultural officials. Berlin: Central Board of Directors Ges. F. German Soviet. Friendship, Cultural Policy Department, 1970 (together with Vera Reising)
• On some aspects of dialectical, musical and dramaturgical character interpretations in recent works of opera in the German Democratic Republic. Berlin (East), Dissertation A, 1973
• Working material for the work analysis. Berlin: Chief Abbot. Teacher training d. Ministry of Public Education, 1979/81 (together with Wilhelm Baethge and Hella Brock )
• Finals in operas by ETA Hoffmann, Louis Spohr, Heinrich Marschner and Carl Maria von Weber. Thoughts on theory and Story d. Opera finals. Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Dissertation B, 1984
• Article in the encyclopedia The music past and present. 2nd edition Kassel 1994 ff: ensemble , finale , introduction , quartet (vocal) , trio (vocal)
• Lectures and essays 1982–2000. Special edition for the International Richard Wagner Congress June 1-4, 2000 in Berlin. Berlin 2000
• Richard Wagner. Thinking about his "fabric". Berlin 2001
• Musical theater in an experiment. Twenty-five essays. Berlin 2004

Articles / reports (selection)

• List of publications of the Festschrift for Gerd Rienäcker on his 65th birthday (for the years 1967–2004) , Berlin 2004
• Thoughts on the relationship between music theory teaching systems and music history development. In: Contributions to musicology. Vol. 9/2, 1967, pp. 128-133.
• Ernst Hermann Meyer - Symphony in B. In: Heinz Alfred Brockhaus et al. (Ed.): Edited volumes on the music history of the German Democratic Republic. Volume I. Berlin 1969, pp. 56-90.
• Missed opportunities. Thinking about Bach pictures in the GDR. In: Joachim Lüdtke (Ed.): Bach and posterity. Volume 4: 1950-2000. Frankfurt / Laaber 1996/2005, pp. 97-100.
• The industrialized idyll - for the revue “Im Weißen Rößl” , written on November 30, 1997 for the production by Jochen Biganzoli in the Kleist-Theater Frankfurt / Oder
• Handel and the Opera seria , Berlin 2003/04
• Key words on Bach's musical theology , Berlin 2004
• The magician behind the magician - on the dramaturgy of the first finale of the opera “Faust” by Louis Spohr , Berlin 2004
• Fibula music? Comments on Hanns Eisler's and Paul Dessau's setting of the “War Primer”. In: Nina Ermlich Lehmann (Ed.): Focus “German Miserere” by Paul Dessau and Bertolt Brecht. Festschrift Peter Petersen for his 65th birthday. Hamburg 2005, pp. 87-110.
• Looking back ahead: Composition as a mediation between past and future. In: Maren Köster and Dörte Schmidt (eds.): "You never return, you always leave". Remigration and music culture. Munich 2005, pp. 105-120.
• Making music under the sign of Benjamin - queries about what is written. In: Hanns-Werner Heister, Wolfgang Martin Stroh and Peter Wicke (eds.): Musik-Avantgarde. On the dialectic of vanguard and rearguard. A collection of thoughts for Günter Mayer for his 75th birthday. Oldenburg 2006, pp. 191-210.
• Wagner and the New German School. In: Detlef Altenburg (Ed.): Liszt and the New German School. (Series: Weimar Liszt Studies, Volume 3). Laaber 2006, pp. 201-206.
• On the way to Dmitri Shostakovich - in fifteen steps , Berlin 2006/07
• About the introduction - thoughts on the overture to the opera “The Magic Flute” by WA Mozart. In: Friederike Wißmann, Thomas Ahrend and Heinz von Loesch (eds.): From recognizing what has been recognized. Musical analysis and edition philology. Festschrift for Christian Martin Schmidt. Wiesbaden 2007, pp. 171-181.
• Peter Konwitschny - Marxist and realist. In: Anja Oeck (Ed.): Music theater as a chance. Peter Konwitschny staged. Berlin 2008, pp. 25-26.
• Theses on the "Threepenny Opera". In: Music & Aesthetics. Volume 13/50, 2009 / April, pp. 85-90.
• ... rid yourself of moral connotations. About GDR music history before and after 1989/90. In: NZfM. Volume 171, 2010/2, pp. 12-15.
• Peter Konwitschny directs Verdi. In: Camilla Bork et al. (Ed.): Event and Exegesis. Musical interpretation - interpretation of the music. Festschrift for Hermann Danuser on his 65th birthday. Schliengen 2011, pp. 516-527.
• Key words on Bach's musical theology. In: Thomas Phleps and Wieland Reich (eds.): Music contexts. Festschrift for Hanns-Werner Heister. Volume 2. Münster 2011, pp. 737-749.
• ... but change the world, it needs it! In: Ulrich Tadday (Ed.): Hanns Eisler. Applied music. (Series: Music Concepts, Special Volume). Munich 2012, pp. 64–81.
• Certainly, certain, certain future happiness. - five movements about Eisler's "Ernste Gesänge" In: Hartmut Krones (Ed.): Hanns Eisler. A composer without a home ?. (Series: Writings of the Arnold Schönberg Science Center, Volume 6). Vienna 2012, pp. 109–115.
• Hanns Eisler - a special case. In: Hartmut Krones (Ed.): Hanns Eisler. A composer without a home ?. (Series: Writings of the Arnold Schönberg Science Center, Volume 6). Vienna 2012, pp. 331–340.
• Making music about traditions. "The soldiers" by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, "Einstein" by Paul Dessau. In: Detlef Altenburg and Rainer Bayreuther (eds.): Music and cultural identity. (Report on the XIIIth International Congress of the Society for Music Research, Weimar 2004). Volume 2: Symposia B. Kassel 2012, pp. 259–265.
• Music in space - music as space? Notes on some passages in Berlioz's Requiem. In: Veronika Busch et al. (Ed.): Perception, knowledge, mediation. Musicological bridging. Festschrift for Wolfgang Auhagen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Hildesheim 2013, pp. 157–166.
• Ernst Hermann Meyer on Georg Friedrich Handel - some notations. In: Handel yearbook. Volume 60, 2014, pp. 97-108.
• Shostakovich's complaint about Jewish suffering. In: German Shostakovich Society (ed.): Shostakovich aspects. Analyzes and Studies Berlin 2014, pp. 89–96.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice in the FAZ, February 28, 2018
2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Gerd Rienäcker. Biography on the website of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, accessed on May 24, 2019.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerd Rienäcker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Festschrift for Gerd Rienäcker on his 65th birthday as PDF