Tobias Janz

Tobias Janz (* 1974 ) is a German musicologist .

Life

He studied piano , chamber music and music theory at the Lübeck University of Music and musicology and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After obtaining a diploma in piano and music theory and a doctorate in 2005 with a dissertation on the dramaturgy of the orchestral sound in Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen, he worked from 2006 to 2007 as a research assistant in the DFG research project “Musical Self-Reflection. Music on Music in the 19th Century ”at the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne . From 2007 to 2013 he taught as a junior professor for historical musicology at the University of Hamburg . In the summer semester 2011 he was a professor (C4) at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In July / August 2013 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University . From 2013 to 2017 he taught as a university professor for historical musicology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . Since October 2017 he has held the professorship for musicology at the University of Bonn .

His main research interests are music of the 17th – 21st centuries. Century, music theory (history and systematics), sound, aesthetics, music philosophy and modern research and music history.

Fonts (selection)

• Sound dramaturgy. Studies of the theatrical orchestral composition in Wagner's "Ring des Nibelungen" . Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3291-8 .
• as editor: Wagner's Siegfried and (post) heroic modernism. Contributions from the Hamburg Symposium, October 22-25, 2009 . Würzburg 2011, ISBN 3-8260-4234-4 .
• On the genealogy of modern music . Paderborn 2014, ISBN 3-7705-5754-9 .
• as editor with Friedrich Geiger : Carl Dahlhaus ' Basics of Music History. A re-reading . Paderborn 2016, ISBN 3-7705-5886-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Tobias Janz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Tobias Janz