Oliver Huck

Oliver Huck (* 1969 in Reutlingen ) is a German musicologist .

Oliver Huck's father led a plucked instrument orchestra in Reutlingen. Huck studied musicology, general and older German literature at the University of Paderborn . In 1995 the Magister Artium followed with a thesis on Carl Maria von Weber's drama music. He deepened the topic for his doctorate, which took place in Paderborn in 1997 and was supervised by Gerhard Allroggen . Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the graduate school “Text Criticism as the Basis and Method of Historical Sciences” at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1995 to 1998 Huck was a lecturer at the University of Paderborn. In 1999 Huck was accepted into the renowned Emmy Noether program of the German Research Foundation . This enabled him to research music examples in 14th century Italy and their supposed authors in Rome and Florence for two years. From 1999 to 2001 Huck was a scholarship holder at the University of La Sapienza and from 2001 to 2005 head of the Emmy Noether junior research group The Music of the Early Trecento at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , initially as a research assistant and since 2004 as a senior assistant. His habilitation took place in Jena in 2004 on the music of the early Trecento with a thesis on the tradition, stylistic individualization and constitution of the genres.

From 2005 to 2006 he taught as a professor of historical musicology at the University of Music in Würzburg . He declined appointments to the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Hanover University of Music and Drama . Huck held visiting professorships at the University of Trento , the University of Évry and the University of Basel .

Since 2006 Huck has been teaching as a professor of historical musicology at the University of Hamburg . Huck holds a large number of offices in the academic self-administration of the University of Hamburg. From 2009 to 2011 he was Vice Dean for Research and 2010/11 Acting Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, and from 2009 to 2010 spokesman for the Department of Cultural History and Cultural Studies. Huck has been Dean of the Faculty of Humanities since March 1, 2011.

Huck is among other things editor of the journal Die Musikforschung as well as a member of the advisory board of the Mediävistenverband and the advisory board of the journal Musiktheorie , member of the board of the Collaborative Research Center 950 and head of the integrated graduate college "Manuscript Cultures" in the SFB 950.

Fonts

• The music of the early Trecento (= Musica mensurabilis. Vol. 1). Olms, Hildesheim 2005, ISBN 3-487-12858-6 (partly at the same time: Jena, University, habilitation paper, 2004).
• From Silvana to Freischütz. The concert arias, the interludes to operas and the incidental music of Carl Maria von Weber (= Weber studies. In connection with the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition. Vol. 5). Schott, Mainz a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-7957-0381-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Oliver Huck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Huck at the University of Hamburg
• Joachim Kronsbein: You sing without ceasing. The musicologist Oliver Huck is interested in singing from heaven. In: Der Spiegel from November 5, 2007.