Michael Zywietz

Michael Zywietz (* 1964 in Sevelen / Rhineland ) is a German musicologist . He has been teaching at the University of the Arts in Bremen since 2005 .

Life

Michael Zywietz studied the major artistic subject organ at the Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf (graduated with a diploma) as well as musicology, German and philosophy at the universities of Bochum and Münster . In 1995 he received his doctorate under Klaus Hortschansky (“ Adolf Bernhard Marx and the Oratorio in Berlin”).

From 1995 he worked as a research assistant at the musicological seminar at the University of Münster; In 1998 he was given a leave of absence for a DAAD habilitation grant (research stay in Spain). In 1999 he completed his habilitation in Münster (“Music at the Court of Charles V”). From 2000 he was a university lecturer at the Musicological Institute of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . There he was a member of the graduate school “Ars and scientia in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age”. From 2005 to 2007 he was a substitute for the chair for musicology at the Musikhochschule Bremen, where he has been a full professor for musicology since 2007.

Zywietz's research interests are the music history of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1400–1600), opera and oratorio in the 18th and 19th centuries (in particular Georg Friedrich Handel and Richard Wagner ), problems of the history of the genre, church music of the 20th and 21st centuries Century as well as interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary topics (music and language, literature, rhetoric).

In 2006, Zywietz was a prize winner in the national competition "Spirit Enthusiastic" for the Year of the Humanities.

Publications (books)

• Adolf Bernhard Marx and the oratorio in Berlin (= writings on musicology from Münster, vol. 9). Eisenach 1996 (dissertation).
• Border areas. Festschrift Klaus Hortschansky for his 65th birthday, ed. by Michael Zywietz (= writings on musicology from Münster, vol. 15). Eisenach 2000.
• Genres and forms of the oratorio in the 19th century, ed. by Michael Zywietz and Detlef Altenburg Congress report Weimar 2002 (Dr. i. prepar.)
• Organ and liturgy. Festschrift for the consecration of the organ in St. Lamberti, ed. by Michael Zywietz. Münster et al. 2004.
• Genres and forms of the European song from the 14th to the 16th century, ed. by Michael Zywietz, Volker Honemann and Christian Bettels. Münster et al. 2005.
• Spohr and his contemporaries, ed. by Michael Zywietz [Dr. i. Preparation]
• Music at the court of Emperor Charles V Graz (Dr. i. Vorb.)

Web links

• Michael Zywietz (Homepage)
• University of the Arts Bremen