Joachim Draheim

Joachim Draheim (* 1950 in Berlin ) is a German musicologist, music teacher and pianist.

Draheim studied classical philology, history and musicology in Heidelberg . He received his doctorate with the thesis “Settings of ancient texts from the baroque to the present” (Amsterdam 1981). Draheim has been working as a freelancer for SWR / SDR since 1973 and for several German and international music publishers (including Breitkopf & Härtel, Schott, Ricordi, Friedrich Hofmeister, Wiener Urtext Edit) and record companies since 1974. Draheim published numerous editions (including works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Fanny Hensel, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Robert and Clara Schumann, Brahms and Busoni). Among them were some first editions: u. a. von Mendelssohn: the album sheet in A major, the sonata in D major and the sonata movement in G minor for 2 pianos; von Brahms: "The Miller's Woman"; von Schumann: "The Corsair"; an arrangement of the cello concerto in A minor op. 129 for violin, the piano accompaniment to Bach's Suite in C major for solo cello and variations on a nocturne by Chopin for piano.

Draheim also appeared as a pianist in concerts, on the radio (SDR, SWF, SR, SWR) and in record and CD productions. Draheim has been teaching Latin and music at the Lessing-Gymnasium Karlsruhe since 1978 . Draheim works for the New Schumann Complete Edition, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw and the new MGG (Music in the Past and Present). In 2003 Draheim received the Robert Schumann Prize from the city of Zwickau . In 2004 Draheim's “Karlsruher Musikgeschichte” was published by Info Verlag Karlsruhe.

literature

• Hugo Wolf Academy: Joachim Draheim. Retrieved May 21, 2018 .