Wolf Frobenius

Wolf Frobenius (born June 1, 1940 in Speyer ; † July 4, 2011 in Saarbrücken ) was a German musicologist and university professor who taught at the University of Saarland .

Life

Wolf Frobenius studied from 1960 to 1968 musicology , art history and history at the University of Freiburg (including two semesters abroad at the University of Paris ), where he in 1968 with a thesis on John Boens to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1968 to 1988 he was a research associate at the Dictionary of musical terminology (for which he wrote 24 articles) and edited the DFG projects terminology rhythm and notation mensural (1969-1975), terminology of musical time organization (1975-1978) and names the kinds of the multiple Set (1978–1979), from which numerous conceptual historical monographs emerged.

From 1971 to 1988 he was a lecturer at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. After his habilitation (1988) he became a professor at the University of Saarland. Frobenius researched the early beginnings of music and was active in the field of early polyphony . He wrote an article about the music of the Middle Ages in the lexicon The Music in Past and Present . Just like the beginnings of music, he was interested in the soundscapes that new music opened up. His main research interests were the music and music theory of the Middle Ages and the 20th century. He was considered an expert on Robert Schumann and modern music .

Frobenius died on July 4th 2011 at the age of 71 in Saarbrücken. Shortly before that, he had appeared as the editor of the volume Music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance together with Rainer Kleinertz and Christopher Flamm at Georg Olms Verlag . A commemorative lecture was held in his honor at which Rob C. Wegman of Princeton gave a lecture on the paradoxes in the tradition of Organa dupla of the Notre Dame era .

Works

Entire fonts

• Johannes Boens Musica and his consonance theory. (Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1968) Stuttgart 1971. (= Freiburg writings on musicology , volume 2.)
• Carmen Maria Carnecis “Trojtza for 15 Players” (1989/90). On the genesis of the piece. Saarbrücken 1995.

Articles and essays

• 21 conceptual historical monographs in HMT, 1. – 16. Extradition (1972–1989)
• On the dating of Franco's Ars cantus mensurabilis , in: AfMw 27, 1970, pp. 122–127
• About the time measure of the moment in Adorno's art theory , in: AfMw. 34, 1979, pp. 279-304
• Politicization of aesthetics for the purpose of aestheticization of politics. On the function of music in the Third Reich , in: Freiburger Universitätsblätter 68, 1980, pp. 49–56
• Krenek and Ockeghem , in: Ernst Krenek von O. Kolleritsch, Vienna / Graz 1982, (= Studies on Valuation Research 15) pp. 152–173
• Bartók and Bach , in: AfMw 41, 1984, pp. 54–67
• Petrus de Cruce's motet “Aucun ont trouvé chant par usage / Lonc tans me sui tenu de chanter / ANNUNTIANTES”. French Motet composite. around 1300 , in: Fs. HH Eggebrecht, ed. by W. Breig / R. Brinkmann / E. Budde, Stuttgart 1984, pp. 29–39 (= BzAfMw 23)
• On the genetic relationship between Notre Dame clauses and their motets , in: AfMw 44, 1987, pp. 1–39
• Numeri armonici. The numbers on the Timaeus scale in the Mth. of the 14th century , in: Continuity and Transformation of Antiquity in the MA., Ed. by W. Erzgräber, Sigmaringen 1989, pp. 245–260
• The music theorist of Cologne , in: The Cologne Univ. in the MA., edited by A. Zimmermann, Berlin. 1989 (= Miscellanea mediaevalia 20), pp. 345-356
• Gottfried Michael Koenig as theoretician of serial music , in: Gottfried Michael Koenig, ed. by H.-K. Metzger / R. Riehn, Munich 1989 (= Music Concepts 66), pp. 77-104
• Methods and tools ma. Mth. and their vocabulary , in: Méthodes et instruments du travail intellectuel au moyen âge. Études sur le vocabulaire, ed. By O. Weijers, Turnhout 1990 (= CIVICIMA. Études sur le vocabulaire intellectuel du moyen age 3), pp. 121-136
• The motet (13th century), in: The music of the Middle Ages , edited by H. Möller u. R. Stephan, Laaber 1991 (= NHdb 2), pp. 272-294
• On the conceptual history of "academy" , in: Fs. W. Braun, ed. by W. Frobenius, N. Schwindt-Gross a. Th. Sick, Saarbrücken 1993 (= Saarbrücker Studien zur Musikwissenschaft. NF 7), pp. 11–30
• Ars antiqua , in: MGG2, Sachteil (1994)
• Cantus coronatus , in: MGG2, Sachteil (1995)
• La Ballade pour piano op. 10 No. 1 de Johannes Brahms , in: Ostinato rigore 10, 1997, pp. 125-136
• Luigi Nono's string quartets. "Fragments - Stille, An Diotima" , in: AfMw 54, 1997, pp. 177-193
• Schumann in music after 1950, in: Robert Schumann: philological, analytical, social and historical aspects of reception , edited by W. Frobenius a. a., Saarbrücken 1998 (= Saarbrücker Stud. zur Mw. NF 8), pp. 199-218
• Tempo (from Beethoven's time to the present) , in: MGG2, Sachteil (1998)
• La Genèse du premier mouvement du premier Concerto pour piano de Brahms: observations sur le ms. autographe , in: Ostinato rigore 13, 1999, pp. 67-74
• György Ligeti and serialism, in: Between folk and art music. Aspects of Hungarian Music , edited by Stefan Fricke, W. Frobenius, Sigrid Konrad & Theo Schmitt, Saarbrücken 1999, pp. 162–167
• John Cage and his orchestral piece 103 (1991) , in: AfMw 56, 1999, pp. 146–157
• Musical compositions - an achievement of French musical culture ", in: The French culture - interdisciplinary approaches , edited by H.-J. Lüsebrink, St. Ingbert 1999 (= Annales Univ. Saraviensis 12), pp. 27–49
• Josquins Chanson Plus nulz regrets. Source criticism and analysis , in: Festschrift W. Braun, ed. from BR Appel, KW Geck u. H. Schneider, Saarbrücken 2001 (= Saarbrücker Stud. Zur Mw. NF 9), pp. 431–453
• Polyphony (Western) , in: New GroveD (2001)
• Text declamation in Schönberg's expectation , in: Studies and materials on vocal music of the 20th century. By Chr. Rolle u. H. Schneider, Regensburg, ConBrio-Verlag 2004
• "Plourés, dames". On the ballad melodies of Machaut , in: Festschrift Herbert Schneider, ed. by Michelle Biget-Mainfroy and Rainer Schmusch, Hildesheim 2007, pp. 137–148.
• Two sacred chants from Hugo Wolf's Spanish songbook and their adaptation by Igor Stravinsky , in: The Austrian song and its radiation in Europe, ed. by Pierre Béhar and Herbert Schneider, Hildesheim 2007, pp. 367–381.
• “Growth form” A term used by Rudolf Schwarz in Anton Webern's analysis of his string quartet op.28 from 1939 , in: Sprachen der Kunst, Festschrift Klaus Güthlein, ed. Lorenz Dittmann u. a., Worms 2007, pp. 265-276.
• On the musical form of Dufay's “Vergene bella”, in: Music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Festschrift Klaus-Jürgen Sachs for his 80th birthday , ed. by Rainer Kleinertz, Christoph Flamm and Wolf Frobenius (Studies on the History of Music Theory 8), Hildesheim 2011, pp. 331–336

Web links

• Wolf Frobenius on the website of Saarland University (including list of publications)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Prof. Dr. Wolf Frobenius †. Saarland University , accessed on September 8, 2016 . 
2. ^ Saar University Press Team: Lecture in memory of Professor Wolf Frobenius. In: Saarland University Press Office. idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft , September 16, 2011, accessed on September 8, 2016 .