Jürgen Schaarwächter

Jürgen Schaarwächter (* 1967 in Cologne ) is a German musicologist .

Life

Born into a musical family (his grandfather was the journalist and writer Hans Schaarwächter ), his musical talent made itself felt at an early age. In addition to early musical education from his aunt Gerda Schaarwächter, he received violin and piano lessons from the age of five.

After graduating from high school in Cologne, he studied musicology as well as art history and general linguistics at the University of Cologne and the University of Gießen from 1986 to 1995 . In 1990 he finished his master’s degree with a thesis on Richard Strauss and the symphony, supervised by Hans Schmidt , which was published in 1994.

In 1995 he received his doctorate in Cologne with Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller with a thesis on The British Symphony 1914–1945 , which was awarded the 1996 Offermann Hergarten Foundation Prize. From 1997 to 1998 he was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and from 1997 to 1999 he worked on his own DFG research project on the British symphony up to Edward Elgar . The research results, together with a revised version of the dissertation, appeared in English in 2015 under the title Two Centuries of British Symphonism .

Jürgen Schaarwächter has been a research assistant at the Max Reger Institute / Elsa Reger Foundation in Karlsruhe since 1999 , where he a. responsible for library and archive, publications and public relations as well as for the BrüderBuschArchiv. He is also a speaker at conferences and festivals and author of specialist books, collective publications, reviews, encyclopedias, CD booklet texts and magazines.

Since 1998 he has held the office of European representative of the Havergal Brian Society and since 2001 has been the German representative of the British Music Society. In the same year he became a board member of the Robert Simpson Society and has served as its chairman since 2007.

Fonts

• Two centuries of British symphonism. Georg Olms Verlag , Zurich 2015, ISBN 3-487-15226-6 .
• The British Symphony 1914 - 1945. Dohr , Cologne 1995, ISBN 978-3-925366-40-6 .
• Richard Strauss and the Symphony. Dohr, Cologne 1994, ISBN 978-3-925366-35-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Schaarwächter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jürgen Schaarwächter
• Max Reger Institute - Jürgen Schaarwächter
• Short biography on Klassik.com
• Fonts
• Audiovisual contributions (nmz.de)