Rudolf Maria Brandl

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Rudolf Maria Brandl (born July 10, 1943 in Stockerau ; † October 3, 2018 in Vienna ) was a German ethnomusicologist .

Life

Brandl studied musicology , African studies , ethnology and philosophy at the University of Vienna from 1962 . In 1972 he received his doctorate in comparative musicology with Walter Graf on the subject of "fairy tale songs from the Ituri forest". From 1962 to 1971 he studied violin at the Vienna Conservatory and composition at the Vienna Music Academy . From 1962 to 1975 Brandl was co-director of the ensemble for new music “Die Kontraste” and a freelancer for the ORF and the International Music Center IMZ. From 1966 to 1975 he worked as a research assistant in the phonogram archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

From 1975 to 1982 he was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin (music ethnology) with Kurt Reinhard . During this time he was a visiting professor at Tampere University in Finland in 1978 . In 1989, however, he was visiting professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

In 1982 Brandl completed his habilitation in comparative musicology at the Free University of Berlin on the subject of "The Lyric Music of Karpathos ". In 1982 he became professor for ethnomusicology at the University of Göttingen . He retired in 2008.

Brandl died on October 3, 2018 after a brief serious illness in Vienna.

Priorities and field research

  • Greece (from 1963)
  • Albania (1972, 1989)
  • Music by Serbian guest workers in Vienna (1973-75)
  • Viennese folk singer (1973–75, 1977–78, 1993, 2003)
  • Opera and Nuo mask rites in China (1986, 1988, 1990–91, 1992–94, 1996–98, 2000, 2004–06)

Memberships

  • Head of the IGNM section Austria (1972–1974).
  • Southeast Europe Commission of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (since 1987).
  • Chairman of the National Committee of the FRG in the International Council for Traditional Music - ICTM (1985–1990).
  • Chairman of the section on ethnomusicology of the Society for Music Research (1990–2002).

Honors

  • Promotion Prize for Composition from the Province of Lower Austria (1972).
  • Promotion Prize for Composition of the State of Salzburg (1974).

Publications (selection)

  • Music as a communicative act. Musical hermeneutics versus cognitive anthropology . Draft of a dramatological music anthropology , Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-86537-886-2 .
  • The folk music of the island of Karpathos. A study on the problem of constancy and variability of instrumental folk music using the example of a Greek island 1930 - 1981 , Göttingen 1992, ISBN 3-927636-20-7 .
  • About the phenomenon drone (drone) , in: Studies on folk music Southeast Europe , contributions to ethnomusicology 4, Hamburg 1975, 90-121.

In addition, he published many sound documentations with a musicological content.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rudolf M. Brandl (1943–2018). Austrian Academy of Sciences, October 4, 2018, accessed on October 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ See the biographical data in the curriculum vitae of the Research Center for European Multipart Music .

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personal data
SURNAME Brandl, Rudolf Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnomusicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockerau
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 2018
Place of death Vienna