Hermann Jung (music historian)

Hermann Jung (* 1943 in Munich ) is a German music historian .

Life

Jung studied school music, German literature and musicology at the University of Heidelberg . There he was initially a research assistant at the university's musicological seminar. In 1975 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. about The Pastorale . Studies on the history of a musical topos . After his work as a teacher at the grammar school in Weinheim, he became professor of musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim in 1983 , where he also held the office of Vice-Rector from 1989 to 1993. From 1980 to 1999 he also held a teaching position at the University of Church Music in Heidelberg . Jung is co-editor of the bibliography on symbolism, iconography and mythology as well as editor of the Mannheim university publications.

Awards

• Medal of Honor from Masaryk University Brno (1994)
• Honorary Professor of the Glinka Conservatory and the Novosibirsk State University of Arts and Sciences (1997)

Research priorities

• Sign and symbol research in art, literature and music
• Music and language
• Music and culture of the 18th century, especially the Mannheim court orchestra
• Reception research (including ancient myths in music and musical aesthetics)

Publications (selection)

• The pastoral. Studies on the History of a Musical Topos (1980).
• On the phenomenology of musical symbols (1981).
• Text scope and poetic idea. On the problem of understanding language-bound music (1985).
• Schütz and Monteverdi (1986).
• Numbers and number symbolism in music (1988).
• "The pedantically ingenious Abbot Vogler ". Music theory and work analysis in the second half of the 18th century (1988).
• Idyll and utopia. G. Fr. Handel and the Pastoral Tradition (1989).
• Caecilia or the power of affects. John Dryden's Odes and Their Tradition (1990).
• Music as an expression of life. On the spiritual work of Hans Vogt (1991).
• Figures and manners. On the linguistic character of Mannheim instrumental music (1991).
• Mozart's "Concertante" treatment: influence or resonance of the " Mannheim School "? (1991).
• "Basta! Now it's all over". Mozart's unsuccessful endeavor to get a job at the Mannheim court (1992).
• Mannheim after 1777. Characteristics of a bourgeois musical culture up to the middle of the 19th century (1992).
• A perfect torso. On the reception of Mozart's Missa in c KV 427 (1993).
• The composer as a genius. Abbé Vogler's "Zergliederungen" Mannheim instrumental music (1993).
• Composing as a creative reception. Igor Stravinsky and the Tradition of the Pastoral (1993).
• Between "painting" and "expression of feeling". On the historical and aesthetic requirements of Justin Heinrich Knecht's "Le Portrait musical de la Natur" (1995).
• Companion of "New Music". On the person and work of Rudi Stephan (1887–1915) and Ernst Toch (1887–1964) (1995).
• Oedipus . Ancient myth and musical modernity. On settings by Igor Stravinsky and Carl Orff (1995).
• Sign and symbol. Inventory and interdisciplinary perspectives (1996).
• Ancient myth in the symphonic guise of the classical period. Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's symphonies based on Ovid's " Metamorphoses " (1997).
• Musical work on myth. Ovid's "Acis and Galatea" in compositions of the 18th century (1998).
• Court and church music in Mannheim at the time of Carl Theodor (1999).
• Leoš Janáček's String Quartets - Musical Reflections of Man (1999).
• Language treatment, language character and language ability in new music since 1950 (1999).
• Orpheus and the music. Metamorphoses of an Ancient Myth in European Cultural History (2018).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on the website of the State University for Music and Performing Arts Mannheim
2. ↑ Overview of the book series Mannheimer Hochschulschriften at the publisher Peter Lang