Sieghart Döhring

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Sieghart Döhring (born December 12, 1939 in Bischofsburg , East Prussia ) is a German musicologist and opera researcher .

Career

Döhring studied musicology, theology and philosophy in Hamburg and Marburg / Lahn. In 1969 he received his doctorate from the University of Marburg . From 1983 to 2006 he was head of the research institute for musical theater in Thurnau Castle at the University of Bayreuth .

Döhring's research primarily relates to music theater . Together with Carl Dahlhaus , he published Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater from 1986 to 1997 .

Döhring is married to the musicologist and opera researcher Sabine Henze-Döhring .

Fonts (selection)

  • Formal history of the opera aria from the end of the eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century . Itzehoe: George 1975.
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer. Great opera as a drama of ideas . Habilitation thesis (mschr.) Technical University Berlin 1987.
  • Opera and musical drama in the 19th century (together with Sabine Henze-Döhring). (= Handbook of musical genres, vol. 13) Laaber: Laaber-Verlag 1997.

Festschriften in honor of Döhring

  • Opera edition. Report on the symposium [1999] on the 60th birthday of Sieghart Döhring . Edited by Helga Lühning and Reinhard Wiesend with the collaboration of Peter Niedermüller and Katja Schmidt-Wistoff. Mainz: Are-Edition 2005 (= writings on musicology, vol. 12).
  • Stage sounds: Festschrift for Sieghart Döhring for his 65th birthday . Edited by Thomas Betzwieser , Daniel Brandenburg, Rainer Franke, Arnold Jacobshagen , Marion Linhardt , Stephanie Schroedter and Thomas Steiert. Munich: Ricordi 2005.

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