Gerhard J. Winkler

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Gerhard J. Winkler (born February 12, 1956 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ; † June 22, 2012 in Hirm ) was an Austrian musicologist .

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Gerhard Winkler attended elementary school in Viktring and grammar school in Klagenfurt from 1966 to 1974. He studied piano with Alexander Jenner , later switched to piano pedagogy and graduated in 1979.

Since 1974 he has been studying musicology at the University of Vienna . He finished his studies in 1981 with his dissertation “Fragility and Aestheticism. Studies on the dramatic-musical conception of Richard Wagner ”, which places the complete works of Wagner in the context of cultural-philosophical areas of tension from Karl Marx and Arthur Schopenhauer to Jean-Paul Sartre .

After an interlude in Graz at the Institute for Valuation Research with Otto Kolleritsch (1982–1983), he became scientific director of the Haydn Museum in Eisenstadt and music advisor for Burgenland .

In 1986 he designed the special exhibition "Franz Liszt - a genius from the Pannonian region, childhood and youth". In the years that followed, Liszt research became his priority area of ​​research, and he worked together with Liszt researcher Detlef Altenburg for many years . In 2009 he designed an exhibition on the 200th anniversary of Haydn's death. Aspects of court music culture, evidence of private life, documents on church music were shown. His preoccupation with the cultures of Burgenland also corresponded to his interest in the life work of Johann Nepomuk Hummel , Carl Goldmark and Jenő Takács . In 2011 he designed the country’s Liszt exhibition.

Winkler taught at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt , at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and at the Musicological Institute of the University of Vienna.

Publications

In addition to monographs, Winkler has published numerous articles in magazines, compilations and commemorative publications as well as in musicological encyclopedias (Österreichisches Musiklexikon, MGG ).

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SURNAME Winkler, Gerhard J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2012
Place of death Hirm