Peter Jost (musicologist)

Peter Jost (* 1960 in Diefflen ) is a German musicologist .

biography

From 1981 Peter Jost studied musicology, German and comparative literature at the University of Saarbrücken . With a dissertation on forest scenes , Op. 82 by Robert Schumann , he received his doctorate in 1988. In 1990/91 he received a scholarship from the German Research Foundation. Since November 1991 he has been a research assistant at the Richard Wagner Complete Edition in Munich . Since 2004 he has also been a lecturer at the University of Augsburg .

The focus of Jost's research lies in the history of music from the 19th to 20th centuries and in studies of German and French music.

Works (selection)

Published writings

• Brahms as a song composer , Franz Steiner Verlag 1992.
• Dvořák -Studien ed. by Klaus Döge and Peter Jost, Scott 1994.
• Gabriel Fauré - work and reception: with catalog raisonné and bibliography , ed. by Peter Jost, Kassel 1996.
• Documents and texts on " Tannhäuser and the Singers' War on Wartburg " , ed. by Peter Jost, Schott 2007.

There are also essays and articles in specialist periodicals and reference works, introductions, forewords and afterwords.

expenditure

Musical works

• Richard Wagner : Orchesterwerke, Vol. 3 (Richard Wagner: Complete Works, Editionsleitung: Dr. Egon Voss ), Mainz 1995.
• Camille Saint-Saëns : Le carnaval des animaux, ed. by Peter Jost, Wiesbaden 1997.
• Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser and the Singers' War on Wartburg, Vol. 6, 1–3 (Richard Wagner: Complete Works, Edition Director: Dr. Egon Voss), Mainz 1999–2003.
• Franz Schubert : Mass in E flat major: for solos, choir and orchestra, D. 950, ed. by Peter Jost, Wiesbaden 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Jost in the catalog of the German National Library
• Schumann's late work: speakers
• Homepage of the Academy of Sciences and Literature