Klaus Döge

Klaus Döge (born July 21, 1951 
in Schrobenhausen ; † October 12, 2011 in Dresden ) was a German musicologist .

Life

Klaus Döge studied musicology and history at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and then worked as an editor and author for music publishers, radio and television. In 1992 he worked for the Richard Wagner Complete Edition in Munich and received his doctorate in 1993 with a thesis on Antonín Dvořák . In 2003 he took over the management of the Munich research center.

On July 1, 2010, Döge switched from the Wagner Complete Edition, the funding of which was no longer secured, to the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Dresden for the Robert Schumann letter edition . Döge died in Dresden in 2011 and was buried in Freiburg.

Books

• Dvořák . Life - Works - Documents , Mainz: Schott and Munich: Piper 1991, ISBN 3-7957-8277-5 (Schott), ISBN 3-492-18277-1 (Piper); 2nd edition 1997
• “Don't use the power of reflection too low”. Contributions to Richard Wagner's thinking, work and activity , ed. by Klaus Döge, Mainz: Schott 2002
• Sounding monuments. Complete musicological editions in Germany , exhibition catalog, ed. by Klaus Döge, Ulrich Krämer and Salome Reiser for the Free Research Institute Section of the Society for Music Research , Mainz 2007

Articles (selection)

• A composer with no problem awareness? Building blocks for a differentiated Dvořák image , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 149, Issue 9/1988, pp. 5–10
• VIII Symphony in F major, Op. 93 . In: Beethoven's 9 symphonies . Origin, interpretation, effect. Edited by Renate Ulm , Kassel et al. 1994, pp. 227-243.
• "... a lot will be said about him". An insight into the more recent Dvořák literature , in: Music history in Central and Eastern Europe , Volume 1 (1997), pp. 217–230
• Richard Wagner and Heinrich Marschner , in: Richard Wagner and his "teachers". Report of the conference at the Musicological Institute of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 6./7. June 1997, Egon Voss for his 60th birthday , ed. by Christoph-Hellmut Mahling , Mainz 1999, pp. 215-231
• Wagner taken at his word. About the thematic formal fabric in Lohengrin , in: The composer Richard Wagner in the view of current musicology. Symposium Würzburg 2000 , ed. by Ulrich Konrad and Egon Voss, Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel 2003, pp. 95-104, ISBN 3-7651-0329-2
• Richard Wagner and Wilhelm Müller or beginning and end of the song. On the draft WWV 7 , in: Intermedialität. Studies on the interaction between the arts , Freiburg: Rombach 2004, pp. 177–192
• “... even if only in very fleeting outlines ...” On the Lohengrin sketch Hs 120 W , in: Musiktheorie , Volume 20 (2005), pp. 131–150
• Wagner - Polyphony - Counterpoint - Applied Bach , in: Bach and the German tradition of composing. Reality and ideology. Festschrift Martin Geck for his 70th birthday; Report on the 6th Dortmund Bach Symposium 2006 , Dortmund 2009, pp. 181–186
• Expressed the terrible horror. Notes on Martinů's "Memorial to Lidice " , in: Bohuslav Martinů , ed. by Ulrich Tadday , Munich: Ed. Text + Critique 2009, pp. 78–91, ISBN 978-3-86916-017-7
• Schumann's Dresden “Fugenpassion” , in: Schumann and Dresden. Report on the symposium “Robert and Clara Schumann in Dresden - biographical, historical composition and socio-cultural aspects” in Dresden from May 15 to 18, 2008 , ed. by Thomas Synofzik and Hans-Günter Ottenberg , Cologne: Dohr 2010, pp. 99-107, ISBN 978-3-936655-88-9
• "My poetry - it contains the beginning and end of the world". On Richard Wagner's stage tetralogy " The Ring of the Nibelung " , in: Divine, human and diabolical comedies. European world theater designs in the 19th and 20th centuries , ed. by Albert Gier , Bamberg 2011, pp. 119–139
• " To hear me judge Liszt quite firmly and prudently for once ". Writings from the pen of Wagner about a beloved friend , in: Wagnerspectrum , Volume 7 (2011), Issue 1, pp. 59–67
• "Which not only really appealed to the audience, but also to myself". Richard Wagner's aria for inserting Joseph Weigl's “ The Swiss Family ” , in: Aria. A festschrift for Wolfgang Ruf , ed. by Wolfgang Hirschmann , Hildesheim: Olms 2011, pp. 639–655, ISBN 978-3-487-14711-6

Sheet music editions (selection)

• Gioacchino Rossini , Petite Messe solennelle , Stuttgart: Carus 1993
• Richard Wagner, Lohengrin WWV 75, ed. by John Deathridge and Klaus Döge, Mainz: Schott 1996, 1998 and 2000 (= Wagner Complete Edition , Volume 7, I – III)
• Antonín Dvořák , Slavonic Dances for Orchestra op.46, Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel 2001
• Antonín Dvořák, Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in B minor, Op. 104, Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel 2001
• Richard Wagner, Siegfried WWV 86 C, ed. by Klaus Döge, Mainz: Schott 2006 and 2008 (= Wagner Complete Edition , Volume 12, I – III)

Web links

• Works by and about Klaus Döge in the catalog of the German National Library