Michael Polth

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Michael Polth (* 1962 ) is a German music theorist and university professor .

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Michael Polth studied musicology , philosophy and classical philology in Bonn and Berlin (TU) as well as music theory in Berlin ( Universität der Künste Berlin , formerly Hochschule der Künste Berlin) and received his doctorate in 1997 with a thesis on symphony expositions of the 18th century .

Polth has been professor of music theory at the State University for Music and Performing Arts Mannheim since 2002 .

He has presented numerous publications, mainly on questions of music theory . From 2000 to 2004 he was President of the Society for Music Theory (GMTH). 2008–2015 he was co-editor of the magazine of the Society for Music Theory (ZGMTH).

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