Klaus Kropfinger

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Klaus Kropfinger (born May 27, 1930 in Gera ; † June 29, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German musicologist and pianist.

Life

Klaus Kropfinger completed a piano course (concert subject) at the Hochschule für Musik Weimar and continued it at the universities of Bonn and Cologne in the subjects of musicology, art history, Romance studies, philosophy and ethnology. His dissertation was a "breakthrough on the way to establish musical reception research as a serious discipline".

From 1962 to 1966, Kropfinger was a member of the Editionskollegium of the New Beethoven Complete Edition at the Beethoven House in Bonn . Until 1972 he worked as a music critic.

From 1973 he was Professor of Musicology at the Free University of Berlin for fourteen years . From 1987 he held a chair for musicology at the University of Kassel, where he retired in 1995. In 1989/1990 he was a researcher at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Santa Monica / California , USA .

Kropfinger mainly appeared with publications and editions on Ludwig van Beethoven , Richard Wagner and Luigi Nono .

Publications (selection)

  • Wagner and Beethoven. Studies on Richard Wagner's reception of Beethoven (= Studies on the History of Music of the 19th Century , Vol. 29) Regensburg, Bosse 1975.
  • Richard Wagner, opera and drama , ed. v. Klaus Kropfinger, Stuttgart 1984.
  • Klaus Kropfinger and Bodo Bischoff : About music in pictures. Writings on analysis, aesthetics and reception in music and the visual arts . Cologne-Rheinkassel: Dohr, 1995.
  • Klaus Kropfinger: Beethoven . Kassel, Bärenreiter, 2001. 334 pp. ISBN 3-7618-1621-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 5, 2016
  2. ↑ Eleonore Büning : Tracing the utopia. On the death of the music researcher Klaus Kropfinger . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 5, 2016, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Kropfinger, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2016
Place of death Berlin