Peter F. Ostwald

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Peter Frederic Ostwald (born Jan 5, 1928 in Berlin ; † May 25, 1996 in San Francisco ) was a German-American psychiatrist who was known for his work on the interaction between music and psychiatry .

Ostwald was Professor of Psychiatry and co-founder of the Health Program for Performing Artists at the University of California, San Francisco .

He has published on Robert Schumann , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Glenn Gould and Vaslav Nijinsky , among others , and edited a collection of articles on the Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner .

Publications (selection)

  • I am God - Waslaw Nijinski, life and madness , translation by Christian Golusda , European Publishing House , Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-434-50066-9 .
  • Schumann. Music and Madness , in English, Victor Gollancz Ltd. London, 1985, ISBN 9780575035461 .
  • The threat to the cosmic order. Psychological, social, and health implications of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung , collection of essays edited with Leonard S. Zegans, International University Press, Madison Connecticut, 1997 ISBN 0-8236-6528-3 ; Leonard S. Zegans, International University Press, Madison Connecticut, 1997 ISBN 0-8236-6528-3 .
  • Mozart - Pleasures and Sorrows of Genius , (Ed. With Leonard S. Zegans,), translation by Florian Langegger, Kohlhammer Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-17-014041-7 .
  • Glenn Gould. The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius , in English, WW Norton Company, 1998, ISBN 0393318478 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anthony Tommasini: Peter F. Ostwald, 68, a Scholar Linking Music and Psychiatry. In: New York Times , May 30, 1996.
  2. ^ Anthony Tommasini: Peter F. Ostwald, 68, a Scholar Linking Music and Psychiatry. In: New York Times , May 30, 1996.
personal data
SURNAME Ostwald, Peter F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ostwald, Peter Frederic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1996
Place of death San Francisco