Gerhard Stradner

Gerhard Stradner (* 1934 in Klosterneuburg ) is an Austrian musicologist .

Life

The musicologist who comes from a family of musicians studied mathematics before turning to music. From 1981 to 1999 he was director of the collection of old musical instruments in Vienna . He fundamentally revamped the permanent exhibition of the collection. A concept was pursued that was based on the musical history. Each of the twelve exhibition halls is assigned to a music-historical era or a musical personality.

His son Christoph Stradner is a well-known cellist.

Works (selection)

• Gerhard Stradner, Ruth Bleckwenn Kurt Kamniker u. a .: drums and whistles - military tents - hand-and-a-half swords - Nuremberg weapons - arms trade and rifle production in Styria. (= Publications of the Landeszeughaus Graz, Volume 6). Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum, 1977. * Gerhard Stradner: Musical instruments in Graz collections. , Vienna, Association of Austrian Scientific Societies VWGÖ, 1983. ISBN 3700107536 .
• Gerhard Stradner: Playing practice and instruments around 1500. Depicted on Sebastian Virdung`s "Musica gotutscht" (Basel 1511). Part I. and II. Vienna, Association of Austrian Scientific Societies VWGÖ, 1983. ISBN 3853695159 .
• Gertrud Pfaundler-Spat, Walter Salmen, Richard Bletschacher, Jiri Sehnal, Alfred Planyavsky, Gerhard Stradner: Jakob Stainer and his time: report on the Jacob Stainer conference Innsbruck 1983 (Innsbruck contributions to musicology). Verlag Helbling, 1984. ISBN 3850610438 .
• Gerhard Stradner u. a., Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Collection of Old Musical Instruments (ed.): Mozart's world of sound: an exhibition of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. April 28 to October 27, 1991, Vienna.

Web links

• Eulogy to the collection of old musical instruments and its director (Engl.)