Reinhard Kapp (musicologist)

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Reinhard Kapp (born May 13, 1947 in Hof (Saale) ) is a German musicologist .

Career

In addition to private organ and piano studies, he has been active as a music journalist since school and gained modest concert experience as a piano player, organist and conductor. He also repeatedly took part in the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt . After studying musicology, philosophy and religious studies in Heidelberg (1966/67) and at the Free University of Berlin (musicology with Rudolf Stephan , philosophy with Peter Furth, religious studies with Klaus Heinrich ), he worked as a part-time assistant at the musicological institute of 1974–1979 Free University and held a teaching position for practical liturgy and literary studies at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1981–1983 . Between 1974 and 1978 he took part every year, once also actively as a pianist, in the courses of Rudolf Kolisch and Rudolf Stephan in the Schönberg-Haus Mödling.

After completing his doctorate with a thesis on Robert Schumann's late work in 1982, he held a visiting professorship at the University of Kassel in 1983/84 and worked as an editor at the Richard Wagner Research Center in Munich from 1983 to 1992 . In 1991 he took over the teaching position for new music at the musicological institute of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Since the winter semester 1992/93 he has been a full professor of music history at the Hochschule (now university) for music and performing arts in Vienna. His focus is on the history of music of the 19th and 20th centuries (especially Schumann and the Vienna School) and the history of musical performance.

literature

  • Reinhard Kapp (Ed.): Notebook 5/6. Musik, Berlin, Vienna 1982, pp. 253ff. Excerpts online at musikgeschichte.at (PDF file; 157 kB)
  • Schumann in his time and since. In: Beate Perrey (Ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Schumann. Cambridge 2007, pp. 223-251. German original published with permission from Cambridge University Press. Online at musikgeschichte.at (PDF file; 229 kB)
  • Reinhard Kapp: Chronological index (in progress) of the operas, cantatas, instrumental music, literary texts, plays, films and historiographical works related to Orpheus (and / or Eurydice). ( PDF file online at musikgeschichte.at)
  • Reinhard Kapp: From the language of the soul. Online (PDF file without bibliographic information; 4.2 MB)

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