Hermann Danuser

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Hermann Danuser (born October 3, 1946 in Frauenfeld ) is a German- Swiss musicologist .

Life

From 1965 Hermann Danuser studied piano, oboe, musicology, philosophy and German at the Musikhochschule and the University of Zurich; he received his doctorate with a dissertation on musical prose. From 1973 he studied in Berlin with Carl Dahlhaus (musicology) and Gerhard Puchelt (piano). After working as a research assistant, he completed his habilitation in 1982 at the TU with a thesis on the music of the 20th century (published in 1984). From 1982 to 1988 Danuser taught as a full professor for musicology at the University of Music and Theater in Hanover , then from 1988 to 1993 as a full professor for musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . From 1993 until his retirement in 2014 he held the chair for historical musicology at the Institute for Musicology and Media Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Danuser also coordinates research at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel; from 1996 to 2017 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation . He held visiting professorships at several leading universities in Europe and the USA. In the 2017/18 academic year he taught at the Central Conservatory in Beijing.

research

Danuser's research focuses on the history of music from the 18th to the 20th century, musical interpretation , the recent history of music theory and music aesthetics, and musical analysis ; he combines work analysis, music-aesthetic discourse formation, biography , genre and institutional history. In his studies on avant-garde , nationalism , poetics , aesthetics and historiography , he incorporates transdisciplinary approaches. His most recent and currently ongoing research projects deal with the interaction of autonomy and heteronomy aesthetic factors in a musical work of art (monograph Weltanschauungsmusik , 2009, with analyzes of, among others, Beethoven's 9th Symphony , the music of the spheres (Sfærernes Musik) by Rued Langgaard and the opera Die Harmonie der Welt by Paul Hindemith ), the conceptual history of musical performance since the 18th century (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ) as well as manifestations of musical self- reference (monograph Metamusik , 2017). Danuser's extensive journalistic and editorial work makes him one of the most important contemporary German-speaking musicologists.

Honors

Hermann Danuser is a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society . In 2005 the Royal Holloway of the University of London awarded him the honor of a "Doctor of Music" honoris causa for his scientific merits ; Another honorary doctorate was awarded to him in 2014 by the National Music University of Bucharest . In 2015 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Publications

Monographs

  • Musical prose (=  studies on the history of music in the 19th century . Volume 46 ). Bosse, Regensburg 1975, ISBN 3-7649-2113-7 .
  • The music of the 20th century (=  New Handbook of Musicology . Volume 7 ). Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1984, ISBN 3-89007-037-X .
  • Gustav Mahler: The Song of the Earth . For Rudolf Stephan on his 60th birthday (=  masterpieces of music . Band 25 ). Fink, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7705-1741-5 .
  • Gustav Mahler and his time (=  great composers and their time ). Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1991, ISBN 3-921518-91-1 .
  • Weltanschauung music . Edition Argus, Schliengen 2009, ISBN 978-3-931264-75-8 .
  • Metamusic . Edition Argus, Schliengen 2017, ISBN 978-3-931264-79-6 .

Editions of musical works

  • Paul Hindemith: Streicherkammermusik II (=  Paul Hindemith: Complete Works . Series V, Volume 5 ). B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1993, OCLC 803579620 .
  • Paul Hindemith: Sonata for violin alone op.11 No. 6 . Schott, Mainz 2002, ISMN 979-0-001-13103-2 (search in the DNB portal) .

Published publications (selection)

Series and magazines

  • Peter Cahn, Hermann Danuser, Renate Groth, Giselher Schubert (eds.): Music theory. Musicology journal . Laaber-Verlag, ISSN  0177-4182 (1986-1996).
  • Carl Dahlhaus, continued after his death by Hermann Danuser (Hrsg.): Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft . tape 2, 3 , No. 11-13 (1986-1995). Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1996, ISBN 3-89007-030-2 .
  • Aleida Assmann , Hermann Danuser, Manfred Fuhrmann, Wolfgang Kemp, Renate Lachmann, Helmut Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Preisendanz, Jurij Striedter (eds.): Theory and history of literature and the fine arts . Fink, Munich (1993-2018).
  • Rainer Cadenbach, Hermann Danuser, Albrecht Riethmüller, Christian Martin Schmidt (eds.): Berlin music studies . Series of publications on musicology at Berlin colleges and universities. Studio-Verlag, Cologne (1994–2009).
  • Udo Bermbach , Dieter Borchmeyer , Hermann Danuser, Sven Friedrich, Hans Rudolf Vaget (eds.): Wagnerspectrum . Königshausen & Neumann, ISSN  1614-9459 (2005-2012).

Single issues

  • with Dietrich Kämper and Paul Terse (eds.): American music since Charles Ives . Interpretations, source texts, composers' monographs. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1987, ISBN 3-89007-117-1 .
  • Genres of music and their classics in the course of history (=  publications of the Hanover University of Music and Theater . Volume 1 ). Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1988, ISBN 3-89007-114-7 .
  • with Helga de la Motte-Haber , Silke Leopold and Norbert Miller (eds.): The musical work of art. History - aesthetics - theory . Festschrift Carl Dahlhaus on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1988, ISBN 3-89007-144-9 .
  • Gustav Mahler (=  ways of research . Volume 653 ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1992, ISBN 3-534-02368-4 .
  • Musical interpretation (=  New Handbook of Musicology . Volume 11 ). Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1992, ISBN 3-89007-041-8 .
  • with Günter Katzenberger (Ed.): From the idea to the work of art. The composition process in the music of the 20th century (=  publications of the Hanover University of Music and Theater . Volume 4 ). Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1993, ISBN 3-89007-258-5 .
  • with Gianmario Borio in collaboration with Pascal Decroupet (Ed.): Im Zenit der Moderne. The International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt 1946–1966 . History and Documentation, 4 vols. (=  Rombach Wissenschaft: series musicae . Volume 2 ). Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 1997, ISBN 3-7930-9138-4 .
  • with Tobias Plebuch (Ed.): Music as text . Report on the International Congress of the Society for Music Research Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, 2 volumes. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-7618-1403-8 .
  • in connection with Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen and Tobias Plebuch, editor: Burkhard Meischein (ed.): Carl Dahlhaus. Collected writings in 10 volumes (2000–2008) . Laaber-Verlag, Laaber, ISBN 3-89007-235-6 .
  • with Hermann Gottschewski (ed.): Americanism - Americanism - Weill. The search for cultural identity in the modern age . Edition Argus, Schliengen 2003, ISBN 3-931264-23-8 .
  • with Matthias Kassel (Hrsg.): Musiktheater heute . International symposium of the Paul Sacher Foundation Basel 2001 (=  publications of the Paul Sacher Foundation . Volume 9 ). Schott, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-7957-0481-2 .
  • Musical lyric poetry (=  handbook of musical genres . 8.1 and 8.2). Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2004, DNB  971462682 .
  • with Peter Gülke and Norbert Miller in connection with Tobias Plebuch (ed.): Carl Dahlhaus und die Musikwissenschaft. Work, effect, topicality . Edition Argus, Schliengen 2011, ISBN 978-3-931264-76-5 .
  • with Heidy Zimmermann (Ed.): Avatar of Modernity: The Rite of Spring reconsidered . A publication of the Paul Sacher Foundation. Boosey & Hawkes, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-85162-823-3 .
  • with Matthias Kassel (Ed.): Whose sounds? About authorship in new music . International Symposium of the Paul Sacher Foundation Basel 2011 (=  publications of the Paul Sacher Foundation . Volume 12 ). Schott, Mainz 2017, ISBN 3-7957-1173-8 .

Lectures, essays and articles

Hundreds of essays and articles in specialist periodicals and reference works, introductions, forewords and afterwords, appraisals, newspaper articles and much more. A selection of 125 texts is available in a four-volume edition (arranged under the volume titles "Theory", "Aesthetics", "Historiography" and " Analysis ") published:

  • Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen, Christian Schaper and Laure colon stone (eds.): Collected lectures and essays . Edition Argus, Schliengen 2014, ISBN 978-3-931264-78-9 .

Dedicated works

  • Dmitri Shostakovich : Tahiti-Trott ("Tea for two" by Vincent Youmans) op. 16 . Facsimile of the score autograph. Ceremony for the 60th birthday of Hermann Danuser, ed. from the Paul Sacher Foundation. Sikorski, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-935196-78-4 .
  • Camilla Bork, Tobias Robert Klein, Burkhard Meischein, Andreas Meyer and Tobias Plebuch (eds.): Event and Exegesis. Musical interpretation - interpretation of the music . Festschrift for Hermann Danuser on his 65th birthday. Edition Argus, Schliengen 2011, ISBN 978-3-931264-77-2 .
  • Paul Sacher Foundation (ed.): "On revient toujours". Documents on Schönberg reception from the Paul Sacher Foundation . Festival ceremony for Hermann Danuser on his 70th birthday. Schott Music, Mainz 2017, ISBN 978-3-7957-1202-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on the chair pages of the Humboldt University in Berlin
  2. ↑ Lorenz Jäger : The ninth as a paradigm. For the seventieth birthday of Hermann Danuser . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 5, 2016, p. N3.
  3. ^ Message on the chair pages of the Humboldt University in Berlin
  4. ↑ A comprehensive list can be found on the chair pages of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Danuser, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauenfeld