Michael Schmidt (musicologist)
Michael Schmidt (* 1957 in Cologne ) is a German music journalist , editor , author and honorary professor at the University of Music and Theater in Munich .
Life
Michael Schmidt studied piano, musicology, philosophy and history in Cologne and Freiburg. In 1987 he received his doctorate at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with a thesis on the piano poems of Alexander Scriabin . After a traineeship at Deutschlandfunk in Cologne and an internship at ZDF in Mainz, he has been music editor at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich since 1990 and coordinator of the classical music portal since 2003.
Michael Schmidt is particularly interested in the development and research of multimedia communication of music. This focus also shapes his diverse teaching activities. Since 1995 he has been a lecturer for multimedia music education at the Institut Lernradio of the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe , since 2001 at the Institute for Musicology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , and since 2002 at the Munich University of Music .
He is a member of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation's selection committee and chairman of the board of trustees of the Georg von Vollmar Academy .
Works
- Ecstasy as a musical symbol in Alexander Scriabin's piano poems = Musicological Studies, Vol. 6, ed. v. Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, Pfaffenweiler 1989, ISBN 3-89085-180-0
- Does music have a gender? , ed. v. Wolf Loeckle and Michael Schmidt, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-930079-81-X
- Future music for culture waves , ed. v. Ruth Blaes, Arnd Richter and Michael Schmidt, Berlin and Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-89158-344-3
- Capriccio for Siegfried Palm , A conversation portrait by Michael Schmidt, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-932581-71-7
- Philosophy of Media Sounds , ed. v. Michael Schmidt, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-9819972-6-1
- polyphony.vernetzt , perspectives on multimedia music education, ed. v. Michael Schmidt, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-940768-33-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lecturer at the LMU Munich
- University of Music and Theater Munich: Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidt
- The European Graduate School: Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music journalist, editor, author and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |