Matthias Brzoska

Matthias Brzoska (born June 24, 1955 ) is a German musicologist . He researches and teaches at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen .

Career

Matthias Brzoska studied musicology in Marburg and Berlin with Reinhold Brinkmann , Sieghart Döhring and Carl Dahlhaus as well as French philology with Hermann Hofer .

From 1981 to 1986 he was a lecturer at the University of the Arts in Berlin, and received his doctorate in 1986 at the Technical University of Berlin with a dissertation on Franz Schreker . From 1987 to 1990 he worked in Paris in a research project funded by the German Research Foundation. In 1992 he received his habilitation at the University of Bayreuth with a study on the idea of a total work of art.

He then became professor of musicology at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. His research interests are opera, music, and intertextual relationships between music and other arts. He undertook various research projects together with his wife, the musicologist Elisabeth Schmierer .

Publications

Schreker's opera " Der Schatzgräber " (= archive for musicology . Supplement 27), Stuttgart 1988,
Idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk in the music novellism of the July Monarchy (= Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater. Volume 14). Laaber, Laaber 1995.

with Elisabeth Schmierer, Susanne Fontaine, Werner Grünzweig : tones, colors, shapes. About music and the visual arts. Laaber, Laaber 1995. 2nd revised edition 1998.

Hector Berlioz . Literary works in 10 volumes. Reprint of the Leipzig edition 1903 ff., With an introduction by the editor. Laaber, Laaber 2004.

with Michael Heinemann (ed.): The history of music. 3 volumes. Laaber, Laaber 2004.

with Hermann Hofer, Nicole Strohmann (Ed.): Hector Berlioz. A French in Germany. Laaber, Laaber 2005.

The history of the musical genres. Laaber, Laaber 2006.

with Andreas Jacob, Nicole Strohmann (Ed.): Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète . Edition - conception - reception. Report on the International Scientific Congress (= musicological publications. Volume 33). Olms, Hildesheim 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME	Brzoska, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 24, 1955