Juerg Stenzl

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Jürg Stenzl in Vienna, October 2018

Jürg Thomas Stenzl (born August 23, 1942 in Basel ) is a Swiss musicologist , author and university professor .

Life

Jürg Stenzl began his musical training in 1949, initially taking flute and violin lessons. From 1961 he studied oboe with Walter Huwyler and from 1963 to 1968 musicology, German literature and philosophy at the University of Bern (with Arnold Geering and Lucie Dikenmann-Balmer ) and in 1965 at the Paris Sorbonne , where he heard with Jacques Chailley . With the dissertation The Forty Clausulae of the Paris manuscript, Bibliothèque nationale latin 15139 ( Saint-Victor - Clausulae), a work on the music of the 13th century, he was awarded a doctorate in 1968 at the University of Bern. phil. PhD. In 1970 the work was published by the Swiss Music Research Society .

From 1969 until his habilitation in 1974 as assistant to Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and from 1980 to 1991 as adjunct professor , he taught musicology at the Université de Friborg (Switzerland). He was then a visiting professor and visiting professor , from 1988 to 1990 for Carl Dahlhaus at the TU Berlin , in 1990 in Cremona / Italy (1990) and in 1991/92 and 1996 at the University of Bern.

In 1992/93 Stenzl was artistic director of Universal Edition in Vienna. At the local university he qualified in 1993 for a second time, this time on the Italian music from 1922 to 1952. Stenzl from 1994 to 1996 Visiting Professor at the Music Academy in Graz and 2003 Visiting Professor at he Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From 1996 he succeeded Gerhard Croll as a full professor for historical musicology and head of the art, music and dance studies department at the University of Salzburg . Together with Claudia Jeschke , he expanded the institute in 2004. His work in Salzburg ended with his retirement in 2010.

He is also active as a diverse author and music critic ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Berliner Zeitung and since 1992 for the Falter ). From 1975 to 1983 he was editor of the Swiss music newspaper and from 1983 to 1992 co-editor of Contrechamps and Musica / Realtà . He is considered a promoter of new music , so he was congress organizer in Boswil from 1982 to 1988 and from 1985 director of concert series (Festival Belluard Bollwerk International (1985 to 1990) and Musiques du Frizième Siècle (in the art gallery Fri Art , 1990 to 1994) ) in Freiburg im Üechtland. Stenzl has been a member of the board of trustees of the experimental studio of the SWR in Freiburg im Breisgau since 1992 , of which he is vice president. In 1994 he was program advisor for the Donaueschinger Musiktage . From 2003 to 2005 he was chairman of the Salzburg State Cultural Advisory Board, of which he has been a member since 1998. In 2006 he designed the counterpoint concerts at the Salzburg Easter Festival . He also worked as a production dramaturge. Stenzl is a former member of the Central Institute for Mozart Research of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg.

He mainly published books and essays on European music history from the Middle Ages to the present, including Arcangelo Corelli , Georg Friedrich Händel and Alban Berg . A particular research focus is on Luigi Nono : A Luigi Nono archive has been in existence since 1971 and is on loan from the Institute for Musicology at the University of Salzburg. He has written articles in Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater , the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and The Music Past and Present .

Jürg Stenzl has been married to Nike Wagner , a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner , since 1991 and has lived mainly in Vienna since retiring.

Award

  • 1986: Liszt commemorative plaque from the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education in recognition of the contributions to research into the music of Franz Liszt and Béla Bartók

Publications (selection)

author
  • The forty clausulae of the Paris manuscript, Bibliothèque nationale latin 15139: Saint-Victor Clausulae. Dissertation. Haupt, Bern / Stuttgart 1970.
  • From Giacomo Puccini to Luigi Nono. Italian music 1922–1952. Fascism - Resistance - Republic . Knuf, Buren 1990, ISBN 90-6027-639-6 .
  • Luigi Nono. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-499-50582-7 .
  • with AT Schaefer: The years of the opera 1996 to 2001 - the opera of the year 1998, 1999, 2000. Ed. State Opera Stuttgart . Cooling, Mönchengladbach 2001, ISBN 3-87448-217-0 .
  • The sound of the Song of Songs - settings of the "Canticum canticorum" from the 9th to the end of the 15th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3694-1 .
  • Jean-Luc Godard - musicien. The music in the films of Jean-Luc Godard . Text + review, München 2010.
  • The Virgil Office Pangens chorus dulce Melos , in: Irene Holzer: The two Salzburg Rupertus Offices Eia laude condigna and Hodie posito corpora . Volume 6 of the series Salzburger Stier . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012. ISBN 3826048563
  • Looking for story (s) of musical interpretation . Volume 7 of the series Salzburger Stier . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012.
  • Music for over 1500 silent films. Musique pour plus de 1500 films must. Music for more than 1500 silent films. The inventory of the film music in the Gaumont Palace in Paris (1911–1928) by Paul Fosse. (= Film Studies. Volume 18). Lit-Verlag, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-50800-3 .
editor
  • Carla Henius and Luigi Nono. Letters, diaries, notes. European Publishing House, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-434-50071-5 .
  • Orchestra culture. Variations over half a century. On the occasion of the 50th birthday of the SWF Symphony Orchestra. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-476-01500-9 .
  • Alessandro Besozzi . Six trios for oboe or violin, violin and violoncello or bassoon , Amadeus-Verlag, Winterthur 1997
  • Ernst Krenek . Oskar Kokoschka and the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. (= Ernst Krenek Studies. Volume 1). Edition Argus, Schliengen 2005, ISBN 3-931264-30-0 .
  • with Ernst Hintermaier and Gerhard Walterskirchen: Salzburg Music History. From the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Pustet, Salzburg 2005, ISBN 3-7025-0511-3 .
  • with Lars E. Laubhold: Herbert von Karajan 1908–1989. The conductor in the light of a history of musical interpretation. Pustet, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7025-0583-7 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Etienne Darbellay:  Stenzl, Jürg. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Christian Fastl: Stenzl, Jürg. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
  3. ↑ a b c Jürg Stenzl - curriculum vitae , www.uni-salzburg.at, accessed on January 17, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Jürg Stenzl:  Stenzl, Jürg. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 15 (Schoof - Stranz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1135-7  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  5. ↑ a b c d e Jürg Stenzl - Public Relations , www.uni-salzburg.at, accessed on January 19, 2018.
  6. ^ Academy for Mozart Research: Former members ( Memento from January 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), www.mozarteum.at, accessed on January 19, 2018.
  7. ↑ Jürg Stenzl - Prices , www.uni-salzburg.at, accessed on January 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Stenzl, Juerg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stenzl, Jürg Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musicologist, author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel