Institute for Musicology at the University of Leipzig

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The Institute for Musicology at the University of Leipzig is an educational and research institute within the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies. It was founded in 1908 as Collegium musicum by Hugo Riemann .

History and charisma

As early as the second half of the 19th century, musicology was offered as a subject at the Philosophical Faculty of Leipzig University. Hugo Riemann , who has been teaching in Leipzig since 1895, campaigned for their institutional recognition . In 1908 the institute was founded under the name Collegium musicum with Riemann as its first director. Under the direction of Theodor Kroyer , Wilhelm Heyer from Cologne succeeded in purchasing the instrument collection of the Museum of Music History in 1926, which forms the basis of the Museum for Musical Instruments at the University of Leipzig , which opened in 1929 . From 1955 to 1993 the Institute for Musicology also trained in music education .

Some publications by employees and lecturers of the institute have achieved international recognition, to be mentioned as examples: Hugo Riemann's music lexicon , the standard series Music History in Pictures , which began in 1961 , the specialist catalogs of the Museum of Musical Instruments published from 1978, and the current edition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's letters .

Teaching and Research

At the Institute a sechssemestriger is bachelor degree program and a four-semester Master degree program offered in musicology. Both courses are geared towards a broad education and are based on the main pillars of historical musicology , systematic musicology , composition / composition and instrumentology / acoustics . There is also the option of taking musicology as an elective as part of the bachelor's degree.

In the composition and composition courses at the institute, international contemporary work is a focus and composers regularly present their works. Since about 2007 there has also been an in-depth examination of the music of the GDR . In teaching, the institute works closely with the Museum for Musical Instruments at the University of Leipzig , which enables students to specialize in instrument science. A permanent cooperation also exists with the Bach Archive in Leipzig , the one since 2008 affiliated institute of the University of Leipzig is.

Research focuses of the Institute in the musical history of the 19th and 20th century (especially music history of Central and Eastern Europe , church music , repertoire - and cultural transfer research) and in the systematic musicology particularly musical ( metropolitan research, music as a form of knowledge, musical games and action theories ). The edition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's letters is located at the institute .

Well-known teachers

Composers teaching at the institute

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klotz / Loos, “Musikwissenschaft”, 2009, p. 255.
  2. ^ Entry by the Institute for Musicology at the University of Leipzig at the German Music Information Center . Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  3. ↑ Annotated course catalog, winter semester 2012/13 (PDF; 1.0 MB), p. 24. Accessed on November 26, 2012.
  4. ↑ Loos, “Musicology at the University of Leipzig”, 2010, p. 280.

literature

  • Lars Klingberg, “The campaign against Eberhardt Klemm and the Institute for Musicology at the University of Leipzig in the 1960s”, in: Berlin Contributions to Musicology 9 (1994) (= supplement to issue 3/1994 of the Neue Berlinische Musikzeitung), p. 45 -51.
  • Sebastian Klotz / Helmut Loos: Musicology. In: History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009. Volume 4: Faculties, institutes, central facilities 1st half volume, ed. by Ulrich von Hehl , Uwe John and Manfred Rudersdorf, Leipzig 2009, pp. 253–269.
  • Helmut Loos, "Musicology at the University of Leipzig", in: 600 Years of Music at the University of Leipzig. Studies on the occasion of the anniversary, ed. v. Eszter Fontana, Wettin OT Dößel 2010, pp. 265–284.
  • Wilhelm Seidel, "Hugo Riemann and the institutionalization of musicology in Leipzig", in: Musicology as cultural studies, then and now, ed. v. Theophil Antonicek and Gernot Gruber, Tutzing 2005, pp. 187–196.

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