Ulrich Tadday

Ulrich Tadday (* 1963 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German musicologist and professor at the University of Bremen .

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Ulrich Tadday studied musicology, music education, philosophy and German studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum and at the University of Dortmund from 1983 to 1988 . After traineeship and the second state examination, he worked for three years as a music teacher at grammar schools in secondary levels I and II.

Tadday worked as a research assistant at the chair for historical musicology at the Institute for Music and its Didactics at the University of Dortmund. There he received his doctorate in 1992 and completed his habilitation in 1998 as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation with a thesis on the aesthetics, criticism and history of romantic music aesthetics .

In September 2002 Tadday took up the professorship for historical musicology in the music / musicology course of the cultural studies department at the University of Bremen. The focus of Tadday's research lies in the history of music and musical aesthetics of the modern era, especially the 17th to the 21st century.

Since 1998 Tadday has been an advisory board member for the encyclopedia The music in history and present and since 2004 he has been the editor of the series music concepts .

Publications (selection)

• The beginnings of the music fiery tone: the communicative practical value of musical education in Germany around 1800. J .B. Metzler, Stuttgart 1993.
• The beautiful infinite. Aesthetics, criticism, history of the romantic view of music. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 978-3-476-01664-5 .
• as publisher: Schumann-Handbuch. Metzler / Bärenreiter, Stuttgart / Weimar / Kassel 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-01671-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Tadday in the catalog of the German National Library