Klaus Heinrich Kohrs

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Klaus Heinrich Kohrs (* 1944 in Düsseldorf ) is a German musicologist .

Life

Klaus Kohrs received his doctorate in 1973 in Heidelberg on the genesis of genres in the early Middle Ages ( The parallel sequences. Repertoire, liturgical order, musical style ). Until 2009 he was Deputy General Secretary of the German National Academic Foundation and headed both the academic program and the artist and composer funding of the German Academic Foundation. In addition, Klaus Heinrich Kohrs was secretary of the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation Berlin. In addition to the music of the 19th century with the main research areas of Hector Berlioz and Anton Bruckner, Kohrs also devotes himself to contemporary visual arts. From 1979 to 2008 he was the editor of the catalogs for the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship holders (13 volumes). In 2012 he took over the conception and implementation of the Great Hans Purrmann Prize of the City of Speyer.

Fonts

  • On the relationship between language and music in the songs of Neidhart von Reuental . In: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte , vol. 43 (1969), pp. 604–621 (reprint: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1986).
  • The parallel sequences. Repertoire, liturgical order, musical style . Musikverlag Katzbichler, Salzburg 1978, ISBN 3-87397-255-7 .
  • Hector Berlioz. Autobiography as an art draft . Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-87877-872-4 .
  • Get the art off the pedestal. Speech at the opening of the semester at the Academy of Fine Arts Mainz on October 20, 2008 . Academy for Fine Arts, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-940892-03-4 .
  • "Châtiment effroyable". Laocoon in Berlioz '"Les Troyens" . In: Dorothee Gall, Anja Wolkenhauer (eds.): Laokoon in literature and art . De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, pp. 242-259.
  • Hector Berlioz '"Les Troyens". A dialogue with Virgil . Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-86600-083-4 .
  • And everything turns into the opposite. Hector Berlioz's counterfactual scenes . Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-86600-193-0 .
  • Anton Bruckner. Fear of immensity . Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-86600-274-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kohrs, Klaus Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf