Josef-Horst Lederer

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Josef-Horst Lederer (born September 18, 1944 in Cilli , Lower Styria , today Slovenia ) is an Austrian musicologist .

Life

Lederer studied musicology with Othmar Wessely at the Karl Franzens University in Graz . He also took piano and music theory at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts . Doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on Lorenzo Penna (1613–1693).

In 1971/1972 he initially worked as an assistant at the Musicological Institute of the University of Mainz with Hellmut Federhofer , from 1973 he moved back to Graz. Here he completed his habilitation in 1985 in historical musicology. In 1987 he achieved the rank of associate professor.

Lederer participates in the New Mozart Edition , the Gluck and the Johann Joseph Fux Complete Edition, but also in various committees.

His research focuses on opera and symphonic music.

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Remarks

  1. Josef-Horst Lederer: Lorenzo Penna and his counterpoint theory. Graz, Univ., Diss., 1970, OCLC 20051095 .