Stephan Mösch

Stephan Mösch (born September 14, 1964 in Bayreuth ) is a German music and theater scholar and journalist. He has been teaching at the Karlsruhe University of Music since 2013 .

Life

Stephan Mösch studied music, theater and literature in Berlin and also completed vocal studies in Berlin and Stuttgart, where he passed the stage entrance examination in 1991. He has received grants from the German National Academic Foundation and the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation . He completed master classes with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Aribert Reimann and Helmuth Rilling . In 2001 he received his doctorate from the TU Berlin with a study on Boris Blacher . The habilitation took place in 2008 at the University of Bayreuth . In 2010/11 he represented the chair for theater studies there, with a special focus on music theater. In 2013 he received a call from the Karlsruhe University of Music and took over the W 3 professorship for Aesthetics, History and Artistic Practice of Music Theater.

In his book The Used Text , Stephan Mösch examines the musical theater work of the Berlin composer and university professor Boris Blacher, who triggered the biggest opera scandal in post-war Germany with his Abstract Opera No. 1 . In his book Weihe, Werkstatt, Reality , which appeared in its second edition in 2012, Mösch analyzes the path taken by Wagner's Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival , bringing together methods of music and theater studies.

The qualification in the scientific as well as in the artistic field led to numerous invitations to teaching. Stephan Mösch taught at the universities in Berlin (UdK), Graz (KUG), Marburg, Lüneburg, Vienna and Zurich. He taught at the Dresden Master Classes Music (DMM) and the Weimar Master Classes. Lectures and moderations also took him to renowned research and cultural institutions such as the Swiss Music Research Society, the Berlin Academy of the Arts, the Max Planck Institute for Educational Research (Berlin), the Brandenburg Gate Foundation (Berlin), the Bertelsmann Foundation (Gütersloh ), the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg (Greifswald), the Zeit -Stiftung (Hamburg), the Academy of Sciences and Literature (Mainz), the German Literature Archive (Marbach), the Mozarteum (Salzburg), the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (Stockholm), the Fondazione La Fenice (Venice), the European Music Theater Academy (Vienna) a. a.

From 1994 to 2013 Stephan Mösch was the editor in charge of the specialist magazine Opernwelt (Berlin). For Opernwelt he reported on important world premieres, new productions and festivals on five continents. He also introduced key topics and interviewed contemporary witnesses and artists such as Daniel Barenboim , Cecilia Bartoli , Teresa Berganza , Montserrat Caballé , Patrice Chéreau , August Everding , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Mirella Freni , James Levine , Christa Ludwig , Martha Mödl , Zubin Mehta , Yehudi Menuhin , Simon Rattle , Giuseppe Sinopoli , Christian Thielemann and many others. In 2009, Opernwelt initiated the symposium Opera in Berlin , which triggered a wide range of reactions in the media.

Stephan Mösch has been committed to teaching classical music since 1993. He works regularly for ARD broadcasters. In 1995, the first edition of the Harenberg Opera Guide, the first opera guide for reading and listening , appeared as a collaboration between Harenberg Verlag and Opernwelt (3rd edition 2002). From 1996 to 2008 he wrote for the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Stephan Mösch is repeatedly invited by television companies as an expert for interviews and moderations. Together with Annette Dasch and Hans Neuenfels, he was a guest in Volker Panzer's night studio (ZDF). He was an interview guest at the broadcasts of the Queen Elisabeth Competition and Massenet's Don Quichotte in the Theater de la Monnaie (both live from Brussels). He also stood in front of the cameras from Arte and 3sat / BR for the first live broadcasts of the Bayreuth Festival ( Lohengrin 2011, Parsifal 2012, Tristan and Isolde 2015). His comments on the Ring des Nibelungen have been released on DVD: The World of the Ring. A Documentary in 4 Parts by Eric Schulz (Deutsche Grammophon). From 1998 to 2010 he produced a CD series for Opernwelt with unpublished recordings of great singers of the 20th century such as Jean Cox , Josef Greindl , Catarina Ligendza , Martha Mödl , Anja Silja and Júlia Várady .

When the series Caesuras was launched by the Bayreuth Festival in 2010 , Stephan Mösch was one of the first speakers along with Herfried Münkler and Gustav Seibt . In 2012 he was appointed to the board of trustees of the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth to redesign the Richard Wagner Museum Bayreuth . He was also invited as a guest speaker at the Salzburg Festival , the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Vienna State Opera and numerous other opera houses. In 2011 Stephan Mösch was selected by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation to give the laudatory speech for the current Siemens Music Prize winner (Aribert Reimann) in the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich. In 2015, at the invitation of Federal President Joachim Gauck , he gave a speech in Schloss Bellevue (Berlin) on the subject of "What does modern music mean?"

Stephan Mösch was represented as a juror at numerous national and international competitions for singing, directing and stage design, for example at the national singing competition, the Concours Ernst Haefliger, the Competizione dell'Opera, the Ring Award and the Int. Competition for song art of the Hugo Wolf Academy . In 2017 and 2019 he was a member of the jury for the Conducting Prize of the German Music Council. He is also a juror for the German Record Critics' Prize.

Fonts (selection)

“There is nothing 'eternal'”. Wieland Wagner: Aesthetics, Contemporary History, Effect (co-editor). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-8260-6236-0
Composing for voice. From Monteverdi to Rihm. A manual (editor). Bärenreiter, Kassel 2017, 2nd edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-7618-2379-8
Singing voices. Aesthetics, gender, vowel profile (co-editor). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-5577-5
Consecration, workshop, reality. Wagner's “Parsifal” in Bayreuth 1882–1933. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2009, 2nd edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-7618-2326-2
The used text. Studies on Boris Blacher. Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-45305-7
Harenberg opera guide. Dortmund 1995, 3rd edition 2002, ISBN 3-611-00896-6
Opera world . The international opera magazine , born 1994–2013 (publisher); with the year book Opera 1995 ff. (editor), ISSN 0030-3690

Awards

1989 1st prize at the Domgraf Fassbaender Competition (Munich)

1990 Winner of the German Music Competition (Bonn)

2002 nomination for “Book of the Year” ( Fono Forum ) for The Used Text

2004 Gold Gottlob Frick Medal for the editorial team of Opernwelt magazine

2009 Lodge Prize of the Wagner Forum Graz

2009 “Book of the Year” (Yearbook Opera 2009 ) for consecration, workshop, reality

2017 "Book of the Year" (Yearbook Opera 2017 ): 2nd place overall for composing for voice

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personal data
SURNAME	Mösch, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German music and theater scholar and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bayreuth