Gerold Gruber

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Gerold Gruber

Gerold W. Gruber (born September 6, 1958 in Vienna ) is an Austrian musicologist , chairman of exil.arte, university professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and head of the MAED (Music Analysis and Exile Documentation Research Center) .

Life

Gruber graduated from high school in Vienna in 1976 and subsequently studied musicology and art history at the University of Vienna . He also studied voice training at what was then the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and pantomime with Samy Molcho . In 1982 Gruber was at the University of Vienna with the dissertation topic "The decline of castratoism . A study of the bourgeois criticism of courtly musical culture in the 18th century, shown using the example of the criticism of castratism - with an attempt at an objective classification of the castrati voices ”. In this work he was able to use a sonagram to prove that it was not Alessandro Moreschi , but probably his student Domenico Mancini who was the "last castrato" at the Sistine Chapel .

Academic activity

After participating in numerous projects at the Anton Bruckner Institute Linz (ABIL), the Commission for Music Research ( Austrian Academy of Sciences ) and the Herbert von Karajan Foundation (about perceptual processes in the brain when listening to music and performing music), Gruber was initially an assistant from 1983 from 1994 assistant professor at the Institute for Analysis, Theory and History of Music (formerly Institute for Music Analysis) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Since 1991 he has also been teaching Music Theory at the Institute for European Studies (IES abroad).

He wrote his habilitation in 2003 on the subject of “An overwhelming multiplicity of dissonant sounds” - evaluation and relevance of music- analytical methods in relation to Arnold Schönberg's demands on a future music theory, using the example of Three Piano Pieces op. 11 . He also initiated the complete edition of Arnold Schönberg's writings, which is in progress at the Arnold Schönberg Center .

Gruber is a member of the Austrian Society for Musicology and a member of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Word and Music Studies. He is in demand internationally as a speaker (D, GB, F, I, SK, SL, PL as well as in the USA) and also organizer of international symposia and congresses.

Gruber is a member of several university committees, including mid-level representatives in the academic senate and in the works council . From 2011 to 2013 he was also Deputy Director of Studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He also acts as the deputy chairman of the study commission for doctoral studies and was instrumental in the development of the new PhD curriculum (in particular, he initiated the doctoral college as a joint event for doctoral students from all disciplines at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna).

Exile and Holocaust Documentation

In 2006 he founded the MAED (Music Analysis and Exile Documentation Research Center) science center at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the exil.arte association , for whose work he received the "Golden Stars Award" of the European Union in 2009 and the Bank in 2010 Austria Art Prize International. From 2010 to 2013 he headed the cross-border EU project "Accentus Musicalis" in cooperation with the VSMU Bratislava and the musical aeterna association. Since 2012 he has been involved in the international project ESTHER (European Strategies for Holocaust Remembrance) and organizes an international symposium on this topic in Vienna.

Selected publications

  • Gerold W. Gruber. Accentus non solus musicalis sed etiam oratorius , in: Ders. (Ed.), On the history and performance practice of music from the 16th to 18th centuries in Central and Eastern Europe. Bratislava 2013, pp. 21-29
  • Gerold W. Gruber. Attempt to analyze the interpretation of Sinfonia No. 6 (Hob. I: 6) by Joseph Haydn , in: Eva Ferková (Ed.), Prezentácie - Konfrontácie 2012, Hudba v rakúsko-slovenskom regióne v 15. - 18. storocí / Musik des 15 - 18th century in the Austria-Slovakia region. Bratislava 2013, pp. 119–130
  • Gerold W. Gruber. Hans Keller - Functional Analysis , in: Gernot Gruber (Ed.), Mozart analysis today. Laaber 2013, pp. 197-206.
  • Gerold W. Gruber (Ed.): Arnold Schönberg - interpretations of his works , 2 vols., Laaber 2002, 1064 pages.
  • Gerold W. Gruber. Kastratensänger and Countertenors in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 37 (1982), p. 390ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official visiting card at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Retrieved May 18, 2013
  2. ↑ Science Center MAED (Music Analysis and Exile Documentation Research Center)

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personal data
SURNAME Gruber, Gerold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruber, Gerold W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna