Hans-Günter Ottenberg

Hans-Günter Ottenberg (born March 2, 1947 in Niederbobritzsch , Saxony ) is a German musicologist and university professor .

Life

From 1965 Ottenberg studied music education and German at the University of Rostock and from 1967 musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1972 from Humboldt University and in the same year became a research assistant at the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach concert hall in Frankfurt (Oder) . From 1978 to 1991 Ottenberg worked as a senior assistant in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies section, which later became the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Technical University of Dresden , and completed his habilitation in 1991 at the University of Halle-Wittenberg .

In 1993 he was appointed professor and chair of musicology at the Institute for Art and Musicology at the TU Dresden.

Works (selection)

as an author

• The development of theoretical-aesthetic thinking within Berlin's musical culture from the beginnings of the Enlightenment to Reichardt . Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1978 (also dissertation, University of Berlin 1972).
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach . 2nd edition Reclam, Leipzig 1982, ISBN 3-379-00224-0 .
• Investigations on the social position of the musician, on compositional production and distribution in the second half of the 18th century with special consideration of the work of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) . Habilitation thesis, University of Halle 1990 (2 volumes).
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Searching for Traces. Life and work in self-testimonies and documents of his contemporaries . Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1994.

as editor

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Carl Friedrich Zelter . Correspondence; a selection . Reclam, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-379-00092-2 .
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach as a teacher. The spread of the music of Carl Philip Emanuel Bach in England and Scandinavia . Music society "CPE Bach", Frankfurt / Oder 2005, ISBN 3-00-015134-6 .

literature

• Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 699.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Günter Ottenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans-Günter Ottenberg at the Institute for Research and Development of Early Music in Dresden