Martin Elste

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Martin Elste (born September 11, 1952 in Bremen ) is a German musicologist and discologist .

Life

Martin Elste studied from 1971 musicology and sociology (mass communication and music sociology with Alphons Silbermann ) at the University of Cologne and also violin with Mikulas Jelinek at the Rheinische Musikschule, Cologne. In 1974 he went to London on a DAAD scholarship, where he studied at King's College , University of London. From 1977 he studied in West Berlin with Carl Dahlhaus ( TU Berlin ), where he received his doctorate in 1981. From 1982 to 2018 he worked as a curator at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum of the State Institute for Music Research in Prussian Cultural Heritage, where he built up the scientific focus on discology and, among other things, from 2002 to 2008 as chairman (2000-2008) of the German Record Critics ' Prize organized.

The focus of Elste's research lies in the media design of classical music , in particular in the history and aesthetics of classical music on sound carriers.

Awards

  • ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research 2001 for milestones in Bach interpretation
  • German music edition award Best Edition 2019 for 2000 years of music on the record
  • Annual award 2019 of the German Record Critics' Award for 2000 years of music on the record
  • ARSC Award for Excellence, Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music 2019 for 2000 years of music on record

Publications

Monographs

  • together with Klaus Blum: International Heinrich Schütz Discography 1928–1972. Edition Eres, Lilienthal near Bremen 1972
  • Directory of German-language music sociology 1848–1973. Karl Dieter Wagner, Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-921029-21-X .
  • Bach's art of fugue on records. With a discography of all cyclical recordings. Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-7657-1061-X .
  • together with Dagmar Droysen-Reber and Gesine Haase: Craft in the service of music. 300 years of musical instrument making in Berlin . State Institute for Music Research PK, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-922378-06-4 .
  • Small phonogram lexicon. From the roller to the compact disc . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1989, ISBN 3-7618-0966-2 .
  • Modern Harpsichord Music. A discography. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT 1995, ISBN 0-313-29238-8 .
  • Anthony Baines: Lexicon of Musical Instruments. Translated from English and edited for the German edition by Martin Elste. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar; Kassel: Bärenreiter, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-476-00987-4 .
  • together with Eszter Fontana and John Koster (Eds.): Regional Traditions in Instrument Making. Challenges to the Museum Community. Janos Stekovics, Leipzig, Halle (Saale) 1999, ISBN 978-3-932863-13-4 .
  • Milestones of the Bach interpretation 1750–2000. A work history in transition. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar; Bärenreiter, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-476-01714-1 .
  • The lady with the harpsichord. Wanda Landowska and early music . Schott, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-7957-0710-1 .
  • together with Wolfgang Behrens and Frauke Fitzner (eds.): On collecting, classifying and interpreting. The destroyed variety of Curt Sachs. Schott, Mainz 2017, ISBN 978-3-7957-1284-6 .
  • together with Carsten Schmidt (ed.): 2000 years of music on the record - Two Thousand Years of Music. Early music in 1930. A discological documentation on the history of interpretation. Society for Historic Sound Carriers, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-9502906-3-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Music in the past and present. 2nd Edition. Supplement. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1139-9 , Sp. 186-187 .
  2. ↑ Best Edition 2019. Accessed April 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 2000 years of music on the record. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ ARSC Awards for Excellence: 2019 Winners. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Elste, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and discologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen