Gregor Herzfeld
Gregor Herzfeld (* 1975 ) is a German musicologist .
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Gregor Herzfeld studied musicology and philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and at the "Scuola di Paleografia musicale" in Cremona from 1996 to 2001 . In 2001 he received his Magister Artium with a thesis on the American composers Elliott Carter and Morton Feldman . From 2002 to 2005 he was a research assistant at the musicological seminar at Heidelberg University. From 2005 to 2006 he worked as a research assistant at Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut, with funding from the German Academic Exchange Service . In 2006 he was at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on American experimental music doctorate . Afterwards he was a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart and received scholarships from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation .
From 2007 to 2015 he was a research assistant at the musicological seminar of the Free University of Berlin with Albrecht Riethmüller and editor of the journal Archive for Musicology . In 2012 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Edgar Allan Poe in music. In the 2012/2013 winter semester, he represented Wolfgang Rathert's professorship for historical musicology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2017 he completed his habilitation at the University of Basel . Since 2018 he has been tenure track professor for historical musicology at the University of Vienna.
From 2015 to 2018 he was dramaturge of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra , where he was also responsible for press and public relations.
Gregor Herzfeld publishes specialist articles and book chapters on the topics of American music, especially of the 20th century, on music and philosophy, on musical aesthetics and on music analysis of the 19th and 20th centuries. He has given lectures at universities and cultural institutions in Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and the United States.
Fonts
- (Ed.): Johann Philipp Kirnberger : The art of the pure sentence in music. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1725-8 .
- Time as Process and Epiphany in Experimental American Music. Charles Ives to La Monte Young . Dissertation. University of Heidelberg 2006. Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-09033-9 .
- Poe in music. A versatile Allianz habilitation thesis. Free University of Berlin 2012. Waxmann, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-8309-2923-9 . Electronic resource: ISBN 978-3-8309-7923-4 .
- For the romantic reception in “ The Black Rider ” by William Burroughs, Robert Wilson and Tom Waits. In: Jürgen Kühnel et al. (Ed.): The Schaubühne in the epoch of the Freischütz. Romantic theater and music theater, lectures at the Salzburg Symposium 2007. Müller-Speiser, Anif / Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-902537-14-0 , pp. 330–343.
- with Wolfgang Jansen : Bernstein: West Side Story . Seemann Henschel, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-89487-906-8 .
- with Frédéric Döhl (Ed.): In Search of the "Great American Opera". Trends in American Musical Theater. Waxmann, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-8309-3124-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gregor Herzfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gregor Herzfeld on the website of the University of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ PD Dr. Gregor Herzfeld represents the professorship in the winter semester 2012/13 ... on kunstwissenschaften.uni-muenchen.de, September 25, 2012
- ↑ Habilitations and appointments July 2017. In: Research and teaching . 7/17, accessed October 3, 2018
- ↑ Habilitations and appointments April 2018. In research and teaching. 4/18, accessed October 3, 2018
- ^ New dramaturge at the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. In: Badische Zeitung . September 7, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Herzfeld, Gregor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |