Klaus-Peter Koch

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Klaus-Peter Koch (born December 11, 1939 in Magdeburg ) is a German musicologist .

Life

After attending school and taking piano and violin lessons with various private music teachers and at the Volksmusikschule in Magdeburg, Klaus-Peter Koch completed a skilled worker training as a materials tester in a Magdeburg heavy mechanical engineering company. Between 1959 and 1970 he worked successively as a materials tester, vocational school teacher and teacher in adult training.

At the same time he completed a distance learning course in composition at the Hanns-Eisler-Hochschule für Musik in Berlin (with Ruth Zechlin) from 1960 to 1962 and was a guest auditor in musicology at the University of Halle (with Walther Siegmund-Schultze, Siegfried ) from 1962 to 1967 Bimberg, Günter Fleischhauer and Bernd Baselt among others). He completed his studies in 1967 with a diploma in musicology as a major and psychology as a minor. In 1970 he was awarded a dissertation “Polish dance in German collections of the 16th and 17th centuries. A contribution to the Polish-German music relations " doctorate . From 1973 to 1992 he worked as a musicologist at the University of Halle (as a permanent assistant, senior assistant and since 1983 as a lecturer). He acquired the Facultas Docendi in 1980 and completed his habilitation in 1982 as Dr. sc. phil. (1992 conversion to Dr. phil. Habil.) With a text “Contributions to a world music history. Musical cultures during primitive society, the period of the development of feudalism and the period of developed feudalism up to around 1600 in areas of Eastern Central Europe ” .

In 1992 he became a research assistant and since 1993 director of the Institute for German Music in the East (IDMO) in Bergisch Gladbach. He headed the institute until 1998. From 1998 to 2003 he was director of the newly founded Institute for German Music Culture in Eastern Europe (IME) in Bonn. At the end of 2004 he ended his professional life as a research assistant in the research project German Music Culture in Eastern Europe at the University of Bonn . The Ministry of School, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded him the title of professor in 2002.

Musicological activity

The focus of Koch's musicological studies are the interrelationships between the musical cultures of Eastern European peoples and German musical culture as well as Central German music history, especially of the 17th and 18th centuries; there are also individual contributions to music archeology and instrument science. With regard to central German music history, he presented works on Valentin Haußmann, Samuel Scheidt and Heinrich Schütz, on Reinhard Keizer, Georg Philipp Telemann and Georg Friedrich Händel.

Publications (selection)

  • The Polish and Hanak music in Telemann's work. Part 1: Documentation, Magdeburg 1982 (= Magdeburg Telemann Studies; 6), Part 2: Encounter and Implementation, Magdeburg 1985 (= Magdeburg Telemann Studies; 8).
  • Lute book of Ioannes Arpinus (Jan Arpin). Facsimile edition based on the handwritten Codex Ms. 115.3 of the Zwickau Council School Library, ed. and introduced by Klaus-Peter Koch, Leipzig 1983.
  • French dances and arias for lute. Facsimile edition based on the handwritten tablature Mus. saec. XVII-54 of the Rostock University Library, ed. and introduced by Klaus-Peter Koch, Leipzig 1983.
  • Reinhard Keizer (1674-1739). Leben und Werk, 2nd completely modified version, ed. from the support group “Reinhard-Keizer-Gedenkstätte” e. V. Teuchern, Zeitz 1999 (1st edition Teuchern 1989), ISBN 3-00-005645-9 .
  • Samuel Scheidt Works Directory (SSWV), ed. by Klaus-Peter Koch, Wiesbaden, Leipzig and Paris 2000 (1st edition Halle 1989), ISBN 3-7651-0332-2 .
  • Publication of the book series "German Music in the East" with Helmut Loos and Hans-Jürgen Winterhoff, volumes 7 (St. Augustin 1996), 8 (1996), 9 (1997), 10 (1997), 11 (1997), 12 (1997 ).
  • Publication of the book series "Edition IME, series 1: Writings" with Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller and Hans-Jürgen Winterhoff, volumes 1 (Sinzig 1999), 2 (1999), 3 (2000), 4 (2000), 5 (2001), 6 (2002), 7 (2002), 8 (2002), 9 (2002), 10 (2003), 11 (2003), 12 (2003).
  • Publication of the book series “Arolser Contributions to Musicology” with Friedhelm Brusniak, volumes 8 (2000), 9 (2000).
  • Scientific project management for the “Lexicon for German Music Culture. Bohemia, Moravia, Sudeten Silesia ”, ed. from the Sudeten German Music Institute, 2 volumes, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7844-2799-5 .
  • Publication of the book “Musical Culture and Ethnic Diversity in Southeastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Influences of German Music ”[Symposium Report Sibiu September 6 - 9, 2003] with Franz Metz, Munich 2007 (= Southeast European Music Books; 8), ISBN 978-3-939041-11-5 .
  • Samuel Scheidt Compendium, Beeskow 2012 (= ortus studies; 9), ISBN 978-3-937788-20-3 .
  • Publication of the book series "Music history in Central and Eastern Europe. Communications from the international working group at the University of Leipzig" with Helmut Loos u. a., Hefte 17 (Leipzig 2016), 18 (2017), 19 (2017), 20 (2018), 21 (2019).

In addition, there are numerous written contributions in collective publications, conference reports, dictionaries and encyclopedias.

literature

Baroque music as a European bridge. Festschrift for Klaus-Peter Koch, ed. by Claudia Behn. Beeskow 2019 (with a list of Koch's publications up to 2019, pp. 329–354), ISBN 978-3-937788-60-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Koch, Klaus-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg