Giselher Schubert

Giselher Schubert (* 1944 in Königsberg , East Prussia ) is a German musicologist .

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Giselher Schubert studied musicology, sociology and philosophy at the University of Bonn with Günther Massenkeil , at the Free University of Berlin with Rudolf Stephan and at the University of Zurich with Kurt von Fischer . In 1973 he was in Bonn with a thesis on the instrumentation at Arnold Schoenberg doctorate .

Since 1974 he has been editor-in-chief of the Hindemith Complete Edition at the Hindemith Institute in Frankfurt am Main, which he headed from 1991 to 2011. Since 2005 he has been co-editor of the Hindemith Complete Edition. From 1985 to 1996 he was co-editor of the journal Musiktheorie . He is co-editor of the Kurt Weill complete edition and a member of the editorial board of the Martinů complete edition. Until 2010 he was chairman of the Association for the Promotion of the Arnold Schönberg Complete Edition . Since 1986 he has been a freelancer for Fono Forum magazine .

Giselher Schubert is honorary professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts . He mainly publishes on the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, music theory and music aesthetics .

Fonts

• Studies on instrumentation in early Schönberg. Dissertation. University of Bonn 1973. Published as Schönberg's early instrumentation. Koerner, Baden-Baden 1975, ISBN 3-87320-559-9 .
• Paul Hindemith. In self-testimonials and picture documents. Portrayed by Giselher Schubert. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-499-50299-2 . 2nd edition 1986. 3rd edition 1990. 4th edition 1995. 5th edition 1999.
  French: Paul Hindemith. Actes Sud, Arles 1997, ISBN 2-7427-1049-3 .
• with Andres Briner , Dieter Rexroth : Paul Hindemith. Life and work in pictures and text. Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-0204-6 .
  Italian: Paul Hindemith. Vita e opere. DeFerrari, Genoa 1995, ISBN 88-7172-033-4 .
• with Constantin Floros , Christian Martin Schmidt : Johannes Brahms - the symphonies. Introduction, commentary, analysis. Schott, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-7957-8711-4 .
• Hindemith and Honegger, outlines of an unusual friendship. Amadeus, Winterthur around 2008, ISBN 978-3-905075-16-8 .

Editing:

• Ludus tonalis (1942). Studies in counterpoint, tonal organization and piano playing. Schott, Mainz and Universal-Edition, Vienna around 1989.
• Andres Briner: Musical Coexistence. With a foreword by Hermann Danuser . Schott, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-7957-1868-6 .
• Paul Hindemith: essays, lectures, speeches. Atlantis, Zurich / Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-254-00190-7 .
• Early music in the 20th century. Changes and forms of their reception. Schott, Mainz a. a. around 1995, ISBN 3-7957-1870-7 .
• Biographical constellation and artistic action. Schott, Mainz a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-7957-0320-4 .
• French and German Music in the 20th Century. Schott, Mainz a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-7957-0433-2 .
• with Wolfgang Rathert : Music culture in the Weimar Republic. Schott, Mainz et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7957-0114-7 .
• with Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort, Ludwig Finscher : European music history. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-7618-2024-0 .

Posts:

• Paul Hindemith: USA diary 1938. In: Swiss year book for musicology. New episode. 8/9, 1988/1989, pp. 37-70.
• La concezione della musica nell'opera “Cardillac”. In: Carlo Piccardi, Luigi Pestalozza: Paul Hindemith nella cultura tedesca degli anni venti. Unicopli, Milan 1991, ISBN 88-7061-929-X , pp. 185-196.
• Work version and work idea. Composition problems in Hindemith's oeuvre. In: The music research. Volume 45, Issue 1, 1992, pp. 21-36.
• “To be at home a little”. on the problems of composers who emigrated to the USA in the 1930s and 1940s. In: Hermann Danuser (Ed.): American music since Charles Ives. Laaber, Laaber 1993, ISBN 3-89007-117-1 , pp. 73-89.
• Form and cast. To Frank Martin's concerts. In: Dietrich Kämper (ed.): Frank Martin. The compositional work. 13 studies. Schott, Mainz a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-7957-1892-9 , pp. 95-109.
• Themes and double themes. The problem of the symphonic in Brahms. In: 19th century music. Volume 18, No. 1, 1994/1995, pp. 10-23.
• Form as "text". A sketch. In: Music as text. Volume 1. 1998, pp. 181-184.
• "Americanism" and "Americanism". Hindemith and the New World. In: Hindemith yearbook. 27, 1998, pp. 80-101.
• Hindemith's orchestral work. In: Norbert Bolin (ed.): Paul Hindemith - composer between tradition and avant-garde. Schott, Mainz a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-7957-1896-1 , pp. 45-63.
• On the assessment and interpretation of musical progress thinking in the musical culture of the Weimar Republic. In: Giselher Schubert, Wolfgang Rathert (Hrsg.): Music culture in the Weimar Republic. Schott, Mainz et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7957-0114-7 , pp. 54-65.
• The long look back. Hindemith's one-act opera “The Long Christmas Supper”. In: Christoph-Hellmut Mahling , Kristina Pfarr (ed.): Music theater in the field of tension between tradition and experiment (1960 to 1980). 2002, pp. 43-50.
• Conversion, betrayal, development? Stravinsky's turn to twelve-tone music. In: European music history. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-7618-2024-0 , pp. 1195–1251.
• "The Lindberghflug" by Weill, Hindemith and Brecht. Concept and function. In: Hermann Danuser (Ed.): Americanism - Americanism - Weill. Argus, Schliengen 2003, ISBN 3-931264-23-8 , pp. 258-270.
• A string quartet based on Beethoven. On the unfinished string quartet by Ernest Chausson. In: Archives for Musicology . Volume 69, Issue 2, 2012, pp. 131–141.

literature

• Author entry Giselher Schubert. In: Johannes Volker Schmidt, Ralf-Olivier Schwarz (ed.): Vanishing point Italy. Festschrift for Peter Ackermann. Olms, Hildesheim u. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-487-15252-3 , pp. 365f. ( Google books ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Giselher Schubert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Giselher Schubert on the website of the Fono Forum magazine