Kii-Ming Lo

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Kii-Ming Lo (2013)

Kii-Ming Lo or Lo Kii-Ming ( Chinese  羅基敏 , Pinyin Luójīmǐn ; born November 4, 1954 in Keelung ) is a Taiwanese musicologist .

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Kii-Ming Lo was born on November 4, 1954 in Keelung (Taiwan, ROC). After studying textile technology at the Catholic Fu-Jen University in Taipei, which she completed with a bachelor's degree, she went to Germany to study musicology. From 1980 to 1988 she studied musicology ( Ludwig Finscher , Herbert Schneider ), sinology ( Günther Debon ) and ethnology ( Georg Pfeffer ) at the University of Heidelberg . Her doctorate took place in 1989 under the supervision of Ludwig Finscher with the dissertation Turandot on the opera stage [Frankfurt / Bern (Peter Lang) 1996]. From 1989 to 2002 she worked as a professor of musicology at the Catholic Fu-Jen University, and since 1999 as a full professor of musicology. From 2002 until her retirement in 2020 she taught as a professor of musicology at the music faculty of the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Taipei.

Musicology

The teaching activity of Kii-Ming Los at the NTNU brought about a gradual professionalization of the subject of musicology in the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the influence of the German musicological tradition. Since 1999, Kii-Ming Lo has organized several international musicology congresses, including a. in collaboration with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra (TSO) and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in Taipei. The international congresses on Giacomo Puccini (2008) and Richard Wagner (2013) received particular attention . Her numerous publications include several monographs in Chinese, including a biography of the Taiwanese composer Pan Hwang-Long ( 潘 皇 龍 ), as well as several articles in Taiwanese journals. She published numerous articles in German, English and Italian in congress reports and specialist journals. Together with her husband, the musicologist Jürgen Maehder , she wrote a number of Chinese monographs on opera history . Her research areas include the operatic history of the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe, especially the "Turandot" operas by Giacomo Puccini and Ferruccio Busoni , the interrelationships between music and literature, in particular the history of the opera libretto in Germany with special emphasis on German literary opera of the 20th century, the history of the opera film adaptation with a focus on Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , the interrelationships between Asia and Europe in European music theater and contemporary music in the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Publications

Books

  • 1996 "Turandot" on the opera stage , Frankfurt / Bern / New York (Peter Lang), ISBN 3-631-42578-3 .
  • 1998 Puccini's » Turandot « - Tong hua, xi ju, ge ju , Taipei (Gao Tan Publishing Co.) 1998 (in collaboration with Jürgen Maehder), ISBN 957-98196-1-0 .
  • 1998 Feminine Spirituality in Theater, Opera and Dance , Taipei (Fu-Jen University, College of Foreign Languages) 1998 (in collaboration with Lin-Shui Fu, Chi-Hui Liu and Lynda Scott), ISBN 957-9000-53-0 .
  • 1999 Wen hua yin yue: Yin yue yu wen xue zhi wen hua chang yu [= cultural music: cultural dimensions of music and literature ], Taipei (Gao Tan Publishing Co.) 1999, ISBN 957-98066-4-0 .
  • 2000 Tan yin lun yue. Yin yue yan chu yu yin yue yan jiu [= perform music - understand music. Musical Practice and Research ], Taipei (Gao Tan Publishing Co.) 2000, ISBN 957-04430-1-4 .
  • 2003 Puccini's "Turandot" , Guilin (Guanxi Normal University Press) 2003 (in collaboration with Jürgen Maehder), ISBN 7-5633-3807-1 .
  • 2003 Ai zhi si - Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" [ Liebestod ─ "Tristan und Isolde" by Richard Wagner ], Taipei (Gao Tan Publishing Co.) 2003 (in collaboration with Jürgen Maehder), ISBN 957-0443-79-0 .
  • 2003 Wen hua yin yue: Yin yue yu wen xue zhi wen hua chang yu [= cultural music: cultural dimensions of music and literature ], Guilin (Guanxi Normal University Press) 2003, ISBN 7-5633-3808-X .
  • 2003 Tan yin lun yue. Yin yue yan chu yu yin yue yan jiu [= perform music - understand music. Musical Practice and Research ], Guilin (Guanxi Normal University Press) 2003, ISBN 7-5633-3809-8 .
  • 2004 Turandot de tui bian [ The Transformations of "Turandot" ], Taipei (Gao Tan Publishing Co.) 2004 (in collaboration with Jürgen Maehder), ISBN 986-7542-50-9 .
  • 2005 Gu jin xiang sheng yin yue meng: Shu xie Pan Hwang-Long (= musical dream from tradition and present: The composer Pan Hwang-Long ), Taipei (China Times) 2005, ISBN 957-13-4281-5 .
  • 2006 »Duo mei a! Jin wan de gong zhu! «- Li cha shi te lao si de» Sha le mei « [ » How beautiful is the princess tonight! «-» Salome «by Richard Strauss ], Taipei (Gao Tan Publishing Co.) 2006 ( in collaboration with Jürgen Maehder), ISBN 986-7101-16-2 .
  • 2006 Hua ge na - Zhi huan - Bai lu te , [ Wagner - "The Ring of the Nibelung" - Bayreuth ], Taipei (Gao Tan Publishing Co.) 2006 (in collaboration with Jürgen Maehder), ISBN 978-986-7101-33 -4 .
  • 2010 Shao nian mo hao ─ Ma le de shi yi chuan yuan [= "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" ─ Gustav Mahler's poetic source ], Taipei (Gao Tan Publishing Co.) 2010 (in collaboration with Jürgen Maehder), ISBN 978-986-6271 -17-5 .
  • 2011 "Da di zhi ge" ─ Ma le de ren shi xin shen [= "The Song of the Earth" ─ Synthesis of Gustav Mahler's Weltanschauung ], Taipei (Gao Tan Publishing Co.) 2011 (in collaboration with Jürgen Maehder), ISBN 978-986-6620-44-7 .
  • 2014 Ai zhi si ─ Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde” [ Liebestod ─ “Tristan and Isolde” by Richard Wagner ], Taipei (Gao Tan Publishing Co.) 2014 (in collaboration with Jürgen Maehder), ISBN 978-986-6620-50- 8 .
  • 2014 Zou yi ge shi ji de ying yue lu: Liao Nian-Fu zhuan [= The musical path of a century: A biography of Liao Nian-Fu ], Taipei (Gao Tan Publishing Co.) 2014, ISBN 978-986-5767- 44-0 .
  • 2017 Hua ge na yen jiou: Shen hua, Shi wen, Yue pu, Wu tai [ Richard Wagner: Myth, Poem, Score, Stage ], Taipei (Gao Tan Publishing Co.) 2017 (in collaboration with Jürgen Maehder), ISBN 978 -986-94383-4-6 .

German-language essays

  • 1991 Chinese poetry as the textual basis for Mahler's “Song of the Earth” , in: Matthias Theodor Vogt (ed.), Congress report “Gustav Mahler Congress Hamburg” 1989 , Kassel / Basel / London / New York (Bärenreiter), 1991 , Pp. 509-528.
  • 1994 Ping, Pong, Pang - the role of the Commedia dell'arte in Busonis and Puccini's »Turandot« , in: Peter Csobádi / Jürgen Kühnel / Ulrich Müller et al. (Ed.), The funny person on the stage. Collected lectures of the Salzburg Symposium 1993 , Anif / Salzburg (Müller-Speiser) 1994, pp. 311–323.
  • 1995 Giacomo Meyerbeer's »Struensee« - On the incidental music of an opera composer , in: Annegrit Laubenthal (Ed.), Studies on Music History. A Festschrift for Ludwig Finscher , Kassel / Basel / London / New York (Bärenreiter) 1995, pp. 504-510.
  • 1995 Invisible ruler over an obedient people: Aribert Reimann's opera "Das Schloß" after Franz Kafka , in: Peter Csobádi / Jürgen Kühnel / Ulrich Müller et al. (Ed.), "Weep, weep, you poor people", The seduced and deceived people on the stage. Collected lectures of the Salzburg Symposium 1994 , Anif / Salzburg (Müller-Speiser) 1995, pp. 663–674.
  • 1998 Theatrical music as a musical interpretation of the drama - Giacomo Meyerbeer's music to Michael Beer's "Struensee" , in: Sieghart Döhring / Arnold Jacobshagen (eds.), Meyerbeer and the European music theater , Laaber (Laaber) 1998, pp. 87-120.
  • 1999 Investigations into the problem of speech scoring in contemporary Taiwanese vocal composition , in: Hermann Danuser / Tobias Plebuch (eds.), Music as Text, Report on the International Congress of the Society for Music Research Freiburg im Breisgau 1993 , 2 vol., Kassel / Basel / London / New York (Bärenreiter) 1999, Vol. 2, pp. 78-84.
  • 2001 The opera film as an extension of the stage - attempting a theory based on Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's »Rigoletto« , in: Peter Csobádi / Jürgen Kühnel / Ulrich Müller et al. (Ed.), The music theater in the audiovisual media, "Acts of music that have become apparent". Lectures and discussions at the Salzburg Symposium 1999 , Anif / Salzburg (Müller-Speiser) 2001, pp. 264–275.
  • 2003 China myths in the Italian opera libretto of the Settecento , in: Peter Csobádi / Jürgen Kühnel / Ulrich Müller et al. (Ed.), Political Myths and National Identities in (Music) Theater. Lectures and discussions at the Salzburg Symposium 2001 , Anif / Salzburg (Müller-Speiser) 2003, pp. 185–202.
  • 2004 The East Asian sources of Isang Yun's opera libretti , in: Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer (Ed.), Ssi-ol. Almanach 2002/03 , Berlin (International Isang Yun Society eV) 2004, pp. 89–112.
  • 2004 On the genesis of Ferruccio Busoni's »Turandot« group of works and their music-theatrical aesthetics , in: Albrecht Riethmüller / Hyesu Shin (eds.), Busoni in Berlin. Facets of a Cosmopolitan Composer , Stuttgart (Franz Steiner Verlag) 2004, pp. 143–175.
  • 2006 Dream and »Dreams« - On the fate of Isang Yun's operas , in: Peter Csobádi / Jürgen Kühnel / Ulrich Müller et al. (Ed.), Dream and Reality in Theater and Music Theater. Lectures and discussions at the Salzburg Symposium 2004 , Anif / Salzburg (Müller-Speiser) 2006, pp. 518–533.
  • 2007 The cinematic implementation of the overtures from Mozart's operas by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , in: Peter Csobádi / Jürgen Kühnel / Ulrich Müller et al. (Ed.), "Regietheater": Concept and practice using the example of Mozart's stage works. With an appendix to Franz Schreker "The Drawn". Salzburg Symposium 2005 , Anif / Salzburg (Müller-Speiser) 2007, pp. 364-375.
  • 2009 »The deadline is up« - structural similarities between Weber's »Freischütz« and Wagner's »Fliegendem Holländer« , in: Peter Csobádi / Jürgen Kühnel / Ulrich Müller et al. (Ed.), The »Schaubühne« in the epoch of »Freischütz«: Theater and music theater of the romantic era. Salzburg Symposium 2007 , Anif / Salzburg (Müller-Speiser) 2009, pp. 274–285. ( ISBN 978-3-902537-14-0 )
  • 2010 Incidental music as a musical interpretation of the drama - Giacomo Meyerbeer's music to Michael Beer's "Struensee" , in: Siegfried Mauser / Elisabeth Schmierer (eds.), Cantata, older sacred music, incidental music , "Handbook of musical genres", vol. 17–2 , Laaber (Laaber) 2010, pp. 297–322.
  • 2011 Jean-Joseph Marie Amiot as a key figure in the musical cultural exchange between China and Europe , in: Ivana Rentsch / Walter Kläy / Arne Stollberg (eds.), Dialoge und Resonanzen , Munich (text + kritik) 2011, pp. 259–270. ( ISBN 978-3-86916-105-1 )
  • 2014 A disillusioned dream of America: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's opera film »Madama Butterfly« , in: Sieghart Döhring / Stefanie Rauch (eds.), Musiktheater im Fokus , Sinzig (Studio-Punkt-Verlag) 2014, pp. 219–236. ( ISBN 978-3-89564-161-9 )
  • 2015 Seeing, hearing and understanding: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's film adaptation of "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff , in: Thomas Rösch (Ed.), Text, Music, Scene - Das Musiktheater von Carl Orff (Orff Center Munich Symposium 2007) , Mainz etc. (Schott) 2015, pp. 147–173. ( ISBN 978-3-7957-0672-2 )
  • 2015 »In the dark you, in the light me!« - Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's Bayreuth staging of »Tristan und Isolde« , in: Naomi Matsumoto (ed.), Staging Verdi and Wagner , Turnhout (Brepols) 2015, pp. 307–321 . ( ISBN 978-2-503-56482-1 )

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ in Chinese, family names are usually written first
  2. ↑ Musicologist | Lo Kii-ming. Taiwan Ministry of Culture, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  3. ^ TAIPEI TIMES: Puccini's unfinished business. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lo, Kii-Ming
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 羅基敏 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Keelung