Sven Hansell

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Sven Hostrup Hansell (born October 23, 1934 in New York City , † March 6, 2014 in Roseville , California ) was an American musicologist and professor of musicology at the University of Iowa. He was a specialist in music and performance practices of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as a harpsichordist and composer.

Hansell was born in New York City and raised in Philadelphia . He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956 and a master's degree from Harvard University in 1958. He then studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in France and completed further studies at the University of Copenhagen, the College of Music in Berlin and Indiana University. He received his doctorate in 1966 from the University of Illinois with a dissertation on the cantatas, motets and antiphons by Johann Adolf Hasse .

Hansell taught music history and harpsichord at the University of California, Davis, before joining the faculty at the University of Iowa in 1973. In 1999 he retired from the University of Iowa as Professor Emeritus of Musicology. During his career, he has authored over 60 articles for the New Grove Dictionary for Music and Musicians.

At the time of his death, Hansell was married to the German musicologist Marie-Agnes Dittrich . He was previously married to the musicologist and organist Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b University of Illinois Musicology Division. PhDs Completed in Musicology
  2. ^ A b Iowa City Press-Citizen (Nov. 2, 1993). "Early music concert will offer familiar, unfamiliar"
  3. ^ Dittrich, Marie-Agnes and Hansell, Kathleen Kuzmick (February 2015). "Sven Hostrup Hansell (1934-2014)" . American Musicological Society Newsletter , Vol. 45, No. 1, p. 30th
  4. ^ New York Times (March 27, 2014). Obituary: Sven Hostrup Hansell .
personal data
SURNAME Hansell, Sven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hansell, Sven Hostrup (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musicologist and professor of musicology
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2014
Place of death Roseville , California