Peter Revers

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Peter Revers (* 1954 in Würzburg ) is a German - Austrian musicologist and professor at the Graz University of Art .

Life

Peter Revers is the son of the psychologist Wilhelm Josef Revers . He studied musicology, psychology , philosophy and composition at the Paris-Lodron University and the Mozarteum Salzburg and the University of Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1980 and also obtained his artistic diploma in 1981. From 1981 to 1996 he was assistant, lecturer and visiting professor at the music academies in Vienna and Graz, but also worked at the universities in Salzburg and Hamburg . In 1988/1989 he received a research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Hamburg, where he completed his habilitation in 1993. Revers has been married to the pianist and university professor Lucy Revers-Chin since 1982 and has one son (Daniel, * 1984).

Revers has been full professor of music history at the University of Art in Graz since 1996 . From 2001 to 2009 he was President of the Austrian Society for Musicology. The main research interests of Revers include: Gustav Mahler , Jean Sibelius , Mozart , the music of the 18th to the 21st century, but also the reception of East Asia in Western music history.

Publications (selection)

  • Friedrich C. Heller / Peter Revers: The Wiener Konzerthaus. History and meaning, Vienna 1983.
  • Gustav Mahler - Studies on the late symphonies. Hamburg 1985.
  • The foreign and the familiar. Studies on music-theoretical and music-dramatic reception of East Asia (supplements to the Archive for Musicology XLI), Stuttgart 1997.
  • Mahler's Lieder, Munich 2000 (Verlag CH Beck).
  • Present and future of the promotion of young scientists, ed. by Josef Ehmer , Dietmar Goltschnigg, Peter Revers and Justin Stagl , Vienna 2003.
  • Harry… Heinrich… Henri… Heine: German - Jew - European, ed. by Dietmar Goltschnigg, Charlotte Grollegg-Edler and Peter Revers, Berlin (Erich Schmied) 2008.
  • Gustav Mahler - interpretations of his works, ed. by Peter Revers and Oliver Korte, 2 vols., Laaber 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Revers data set at the DNB
personal data
SURNAME Revers, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg