Ulrich Konrad

Ulrich Aloysius Konrad (born August 14, 1957 in Bonn ) is a musicologist and professor at the Institute for Music Research at the University of Würzburg .

Career

Ulrich Konrad studied musicology, German and history at the Universities of Bonn and Vienna . His doctoral thesis in 1983 dealt with the composer and conductor Otto Nicolai , who influenced the composition and performance practice of the orchestra in the mid-19th century with the establishment of the Vienna Philharmonic . After his habilitation in 1991 at the University of Göttingen with a study of Mozart's creative methods, Konrad taught musicology at the State University of Music in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1993 and became full professor of musicology at the University of Würzburg in 1996 .

Services

Konrad is an expert on European music from the 17th to the 20th century, especially the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Robert Schumann , Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss . He is chairman of the Academy for Mozart Research of the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg , project manager of the Robert Schumann Complete Edition and the “Richard Wagner Writings (RWS)” edition.

Ulrich Konrad dealt intensively with the work sketches and fragments of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and was able to draw conclusions about Mozart's composition. Among other things, it turned out that Mozart planned his compositions far more thoroughly and developed them in several stages than previously assumed. He published these findings in a monograph in 1991 and also presented annotated editions of all of Mozart's sketches and fragments.

In addition, he deals with organ tablatures from the 15th to 17th centuries, with instrumental ensemble music of the 17th century and the history and methodology of musicology.

Honors

Konrad was awarded the Dent Medal in 1996. In January 1999 he received the silver Mozart medal from the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg for his standard work on Mozart's creative work and his complete edition of Mozart's sketches. In 2001 Konrad was the first and so far only musicologist to receive the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . Konrad is a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , the Leopoldina and the Academia Europaea as well as a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz . In 2017 he received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Publications (selection)

• Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. Bärenreiter, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7618-1821-3 .
• Workshop views: Haydn , Beethoven and Wagner observed composing. (with 1 CD), Stuttgart 2014.
• as publisher: Church music yearbook of the General Cecilia Association for Germany . Regensburg.
• Between excellence initiative and mass operation: Quo vadis University. In: Cherusker leaves. Volume 92, 2015, pp. 12-22.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Konrad in the catalog of the German National Library
• Research report Ulrich Konrad at the University of Würzburg on zv.uni-wuerzburg.de
• Laudation on the occasion of the awarding of the Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation, dfg.de ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 61 kB)
• Complete, current list of publications

swell

1. ↑ List of Dent Medal recipients ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Message about the award of the Mozart Medal on the website of the University of Würzburg
3. ^ Website of the German Research Foundation on Ulrich Konrad's research on the occasion of the awarding of the Leibniz Prize in 2001 ( Memento from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Member entry by Ulrich Konrad (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on July 17, 2016.
5. ↑ Member entry of Ulrich Konrad (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 17, 2016.
6. ↑ member entry of Ulrich Konrad at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 16 October 2017
7. ↑ Church Music Yearbook ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.