Hanspeter Bennwitz

Hanspeter Bennwitz (born May 4, 1930 in Dresden ) is a German musicologist .

Life

After attending school in Dresden, Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, from 1951 he studied musicology in Freiburg im Breisgau with Wilibald Gurlitt and German literary history with Walther Rehm and copyright and publishing law. From 1955 to 1961 he worked as an assistant at the musicological seminar in Freiburg, worked on the personal section of the 12th edition of the Riemann Music Lexicon and received his doctorate in 1961 with a thesis on the Donaueschinger Musiktage .

Until 1966 he worked as a lexicographer and editor for publishers, then went to the Volkswagen Foundation in Hanover to promote science and was a coordinating speaker a. a. responsible for the development and implementation of funding programs for educational research . 1977-1994 he was responsible for the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz building, coordination and - after unification in 1990 - Expansion of the Academy centroid music editions (including the total expenditure of the works by Bach, Brahms, Gluck, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schönberg, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner and Weber). He conceived the Mainz concert series Musik im Landtag, which he oversaw until 1994, as well as the transnational program Musiklandschaft Mitteldeutschland in the context of the association, was a founding member of the State Music Council of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1979 and a board member until 1992 and treasurer and board member of the Society for Music Research . In addition, he volunteered in civil rights organizations and in various functions in the SPD, as well as in public election and honorary offices.

Awards

• 1991: Golden Mozart Needle and 1996 Silver Mozart Medal from the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg
• 2004: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 2007: Honorary member of the Society for Music Research
• 2010: Gutenberg statuette from the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz

Fonts

• The Donaueschingen Chamber Music Days from 1921–1926 . Dissertation Freiburg i.Br. 1961.
• Small music lexicon . Francke, Bern-Munich 1963.
• Interpreter lexicon of instrumental music . Francke, Bern / Munich 1964.
• German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical handbook by Wilhelm Kosch . Delivery 20 and 21, Francke, Bern-Munich 1966 and 1971.
• with Franz Emanuel Wienert (Ed.): CIEL. A funding program for elementary education and its scientific requirements . Vandenhoeck, Göttingen 1973, ISBN 3-525-85352-1 .
• with Georg Feder, Ludwig Finscher and Wolfgang Rehm (eds.): Musical heritage and present. Complete editions of musicians in the Federal Republic of Germany . Bärenreiter, Kassel / Basel 1975, ISBN 3-7618-0521-7 .
• Founding stories. A fictional diary . In: Festschrift 10 years of comprehensive school in Mainz. From a citizens' initiative to a development association . Mainz 1989.
• with Gabriele Buschmeier (ed.): Christoph Willibald Gluck : Ezio (Prague version from 1750). Complete Works. III / 14, Bärenreiter, Kassel 1990.
• with Gabriele Buschmeier, Georg Feder, Klaus Hofmann, Wolfgang Plath (eds.): Opera Incerta. Questions of authenticity as a problem of overall musicological editions . Steiner, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05996-2 .
• Gabriele Buschmeier, Albrecht Riethmüller (ed.): Composers' letters of the 19th century . Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07138-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honorary members of the Society for Music Research. (No longer available online.) Society for Music Research, formerly the original ; Retrieved August 29, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ The Academy congratulates its employees. Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, accessed on August 29, 2010 .