Ludwig Holtmeier

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Ludwig Holtmeier (* 1964 ) is a German music theorist and pianist .

Life

Holtmeier studied piano at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and at the Conservatoires de musique in Geneva and Neuchâtel and passed the concert exam in 1992. He also studied music theory , musicology , school music , history and German in Freiburg and Berlin. In 2010 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on the reception of Jean-Philippe Rameau's writings on music theory .

He taught as a music theorist at the Freiburg University of Music and as a musicologist at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin . From 2000 to 2003 he was professor of music theory at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden , and since 2003 he has been a professor at the Freiburg University of Music, where he also held the position of Vice-Rector from 2012 to 2017. He has been the rector of the Freiburg University of Music since October 1, 2017. From 2007 to 2009 he was also a lecturer in historical typesetting at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis , Basel.

Until 2017, Ludwig Holtmeier was co-editor of the magazine Musik & Ästhetik . He was president of the Society for Music and Aesthetics and a founding member and vice-president of the Society for Music Theory (2000–2004). As a song accompanist (hammer piano) he recorded several CDs. His research interests lie in the history of music theory, analysis and the Vienna School.

Publications (selection)

  • Not art? Not science? On the situation of music theory . In: Musik & Ästhetik 1, 1997, pp. 119–136.
  • with Eckehard Kiem (ed.): Richard Wagner and his time . Laaber, Laaber 2003, ISBN 978-3-921518-95-3 .
  • Heinichen, Rameau, and the Italian thoroughbass tradition: Concepts of tonality and chord in the rule of the octave . In: Journal of music theory 51, 2007, pp. 5-49.
  • Implicit theory: On the chord concept of the Italian figured bass theory . In: Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis 31, 2007, pp. 149–170.
  • Functional ambiguity, tonality and Arabic levels. Considerations for reforming harmonic analysis. In: Journal of the Society for Music Theory (ZGMTH). Vol. 8, No. 3, 2011, ISSN  1862-6742 , pp. 465-487 ( online) .
  • with Johannes Menke and Felix Diergarten: Solfeggi, Bassi e Fughe. Georg Friedrich Handel's exercises in sentence theory. Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 2013, ISBN 978-3-7959-0906-2 .
  • Rameau's long shadow. Studies on German music theory of the 18th century . Dissertation TU Berlin 2010. Print version: Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-487-15547-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Music Teachers , accessed on March 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ Music & Aesthetics , accessed March 30, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Holtmeier, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music theorist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964