Gottfried Scholz

Professor Gottfried Scholz

Gottfried Scholz (born September 11, 1936 in Vienna ) is an Austrian musicologist .

education

Scholz studied at the University of Vienna and at the former Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (music, history, art history, German studies) and passed his teaching degree in 1960 and his doctorate in 1962.

Activities in Austria

From 1962 Scholz taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and was professor of music analysis and head of the institute of the same name. Here he was Rector's Deputy Rector from 1973 to 1984 and from 1997 to 2002, and Rector from 1984 to 1988. From 1979 to 2001 he was President of the Austrian Music Council.

Activities abroad

In various stays abroad, Scholz has made significant contributions to music education and music theory:

• Establishment of music education in Kabul (Afghanistan, 1960)
• Visiting professor for music theory at Indiana University Bloomington (USA, 1969, 1971–1972)
• Chulalongkorn University Bangkok (Thailand, 1980)
• Holder of the Austrian Chair at Stanford University (USA, 1981)
• Visiting professor at the Central Europe Chair at the Rijksuniversität Leiden (Netherlands, 1999)
• Secretary General and 1984–1986 President of the UNESCO International Music Council
• Mahidol University (Thailand 2004, 2006)
• Member of the Prize Committee of the Fondazione Internazionale Premio Balzan 2004–2016

Private

Gottfried Scholz is widowed and has two sons.

Publications

Monographs

• The second symphony by Franz Schmidt , Vienna 1985
• Forms in Music , 2 volumes together with Herwig Knaus, Vienna 1988
• Austrian contemporary music , Vienna 1993
• Bach's Passions , Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-43305-7
• Dance Festival of the Kings , Vienna 2008
• Haydn's oratorios , Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57763-5

Editing

• Michael Haydn , German High Mass in B flat major
• Dodecaphony in Austria, Vienna 1988

Article (selection)

• Instrumental music of the classical and romantic periods , in: Allg.Musikgeschichte, Vienna 1972, pp. 373–458
• Gustav Mahler 's summer retreats , in: Gustav Mahler in Vienna, London 1977, pp. 63–76
• Music and Art Nouveau , in: Focus on Vienna, Munich 1982, pp. 103-112
• Music analysis and its limits , in: ÖMZ 36,9, Vienna 1981, pp. 450–460
• Who is considered oestrerr. Composer? , in: KB Bayreuth 1981/1984, pp. 445-449
• Affects and rhetorical figures in Mozart's early concert arias, in: FS R.Stephan, 1990, pp. 135–148
• Rhetorical figures in 18th century music. , in: KB Baden 1991, Vol. 2, pp. 897-911
• On the rhetorical basis of Burmeister's Lassus analysis , in: History of musical analysis, Ed. Gernot Gruber, Munich 1996, pp. 25–44
• Statecraft as an expression of political concepts at the Habsburg court of the early 18th century , in: FS Roscher, Anif 1999, pp. 306–321
• Text books on music as a musical prince mirror - Fux, Mozart, Bach , in: FS Biba, Tutzing 2006, pp. 747–759
• Transfigured Night op.4, in: Arnold Schönberg , Ed. Gerold Gruber, Laaber 2002, 1st vol. Pp. 22–35
• Art as a means d. Politics - the Harmonia in the 'Balet de la Royne', in: FS Gernot Gruber, Tutzing 2004, pp. 713–726
• Gottfried van Swieten and Joseph Haydn , in: Musicorum, Rabelais - Tours, 2009, pp. 193–199
• Enlightenment and Music , in: Schriften d.sudetendt. Akad.d.Wiss. 29, Munich 2009, pp. 177-199
• The spiritual roots of Gerard and Gottfried van Swieten in: Studies on Musicology, 55th Volume 2009, pp. 169–194
• From Beethoven to Scarlatti. Czerny's piano sonatas in: Carl Czerny, Sound and Concept 3, Ed. Heinz von Loesch, 2009, pp. 251–258
• The Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna and its European predecessors and successors in: Musikfreunde - Bearers of Music Culture in the First Half of the 19th Century, Ed. Ingrid Fuchs Kassel 2017, pp. 85–94

Honors

• Honorary President of the Austrian Music Council
• Member of the Senate of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna
• Member of the Sudeten German Academy of Science and the Arts, Munich
• Member of the award committee of the Fondazione Internazionale Premio Balzan
• Honorary Member of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama , London
• Honorary Member of the Royal College of Music , London
• Honorary Fellowship of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
• Large gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria
• Commander of the Papal New Year's Order
• Knight of the Royal Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau
• Doctorate from the University of Music and Dramatic Art, Bratislava