Wolfgang Gratzer

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During a research trip to street concerts in migration contexts
(Santiago di Cuba / Kuba, 2015)

Wolfgang Gratzer (born April 6, 1965 in Bad Vöslau , Austria ) is an Austrian musicologist .

Life

He completed his basic humanities studies (musicology as well as journalism and communication studies ) at the Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg (1983 to 1988). At the same university he finished his doctoral studies in 1990 with the dissertation on Alban Berg's 'miraculous mysticism' . In 2001 he completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna in musicology with the writing composer's comments. Contributions to a history of self-interpretation .

Since 1989 he has been working at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg , first at the Institute for Musical Hermeneutics, and after his habilitation (2001) as a university lecturer in musicology. In 2006 he founded the Institute for the History of Musical Reception and Interpretation at the Mozarteum together with Joachim Brügge and Thomas Hochradner, and from October 2010 to September 2014 he was Vice-Rector for Development and Research.

From 2011 to 2014 he was involved in the management of the inter-university doctoral college for art and the public , and from 2015 to 2018 he was in the management of the 3-year inter-university doctoral college for the arts and their public impact. Concepts - Transfer - Response .

Wolfgang Gratzer has been married to Gerda Gratzer since 1990 and has three children.

research

Publications, conception of symposia and book projects:

  • Musical reception (music and migration, understanding music, history of listening to music, contemporary music, music historiography, Mozart reception)
  • Musical interpretation (history of musical arrangements, artist stylistics)
  • Interdisciplinary topics (aesthetic theories, music and visual arts, literary music)

Co-editor of book series:

  • 2006- (together with Joachim Brügge and Thomas Hochradner): sound-talking. Writings on musical reception and interpretation research (Freiburg / Br .: Rombach)
  • 2010- (together with Otto Neumaier ): Artes liberales. Contributions to the understanding of science and art (Möhnesee: Bibliopolis)
  • 2018- (together with Nils Grosch ): Music and Migration (Münster: Waxmann)

Teaching activities

University teaching (University Mozarteum Salzburg, University Vienna, Danube University Krems):

  • An overview of music history
  • Musical reception (e.g. history of listening to music, aesthetic theories, musical value judgments)
  • Musical interpretation (e.g. Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the history of conducting, methods of interpretation research)
  • Interdisciplinary topics (e.g. music and painting, literature and music)

Teacher training (stays in Northern Europe, China, India, Japan and Mongolia, among others):

  • Music and contemporary literature (e.g. Wiener Gruppe, Otto M. Zykan , settings of texts by Ingeborg Bachmann )
  • Mozart reception (e.g. marketing Mozart)
  • Cultural and music history of Austria (e.g. Austria as "music country", Viennese modernism and Sigmund Freud )

Contributions to university development

  • Evaluation at art universities
  • Doctoral studies
  • Development of special courses at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg on topics (a) body-oriented learning, (b) personality development, (c) self-management
  • Art ARCHIVE room (Mozarteum University Salzburg)

Book projects

  • 2019 rehearsal processes. About the emergence of music and theater (sound-talking 22), ed. together with Christoph Lepschy, Freiburg / Br .: Rombach
  • 2018 polemical arias. Zykan, Pirchner and Wisser as actors in controversies (sound-talking 19), ed. together with Thomas Nußbaumer, Freiburg / Br .: Rombach
  • 2017 composing & conducting. Dual talents as a topic in the history of interpretation (sound-speaking 16), ed. together with Alexander Drcar, Freiburg / Br .: Rombach
  • 2016 Salzburg - Sounds of Migration. History and current initiatives (publications on the history of the Mozarteum University Salzburg 7), ed. together with Sylvia Hahn , Michael Malkiewicz , Sabine Veits-Falk , Vienna: Hollitzer
  • 2014 The Gordian Knot. Solution scenarios in art and science (interfaces. Science and art in dialogue 5), ed. together with Otto Neumaier, Munich: Lit
  • 2014 Almanac of the University Mozarteum Salzburg 2013/14 (publications on the history of the University Mozarteum Salzburg 6), Vienna: Hollitzer
  • 2013 work on the musical work. On the dynamics of artistic action (sound-talking 9), ed. together with Otto Neumaier, Freiburg / Br .: Rombach
  • 2013 Almanac of the University Mozarteum Salzburg 2012/13 (publications on the history of the University Mozarteum Salzburg 4), Vienna: Hollitzer
  • 2012 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. On his development as a singer and music thinker (klang-talk 8), Freiburg / Br .: Rombach
  • 2012 Almanac of the University Mozarteum Salzburg 2011/12 (publications on the history of the University Mozarteum Salzburg 3), Vienna: Hollitzer
  • 2011 Quality Handbook for Studies , Salzburg: Mozarteum University Salzburg
  • 2011 Almanach of the University Mozarteum Salzburg 2010/11 (publications on the history of the University Mozarteum Salzburg 1), Vienna: Hollitzer
  • 2010 Guernica. On violence and political art , ed. together with Otto Neumaier, Munich: Fink
  • 2009 Sound speech event. Nikolaus Harnoncourt as conductor and music thinker (sound-talking 3), Freiburg / Br .: Rombach
  • 2009 elective affinities. Program book Salzburg Biennale 2009 , Saarbrücken: Pfau
  • 2008 Mozart's last three symphonies. Stations in their history of interpretation (sound-speaking 1), ed. together with Joachim Brügge and Thomas Hochradner, Freiburg / Br .: Rombach
  • 2008 Mozart challenge. Composing in the shadow of canonical music (sound-speaking 2), Freiburg / Br .: Rombach
  • 2007 visual music. Gerhard Rühm and contemporary art , ed. together with Joachim Brügge and Otto Neumaier, Saarbrücken: Pfau
  • 2007 Arriving: Going. Adriana Hölszky's text compositions , ed. together with Jörn Peter Hiekel , Wiesbaden: Schott
  • 2003 composer's comments. Contributions to a history of self-interpretation [post-doctoral thesis, University of Vienna 2001] (Viennese musicological contributions 22), Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau
  • 2001 translated time. The Middle Ages and the Music of the Present , ed. together with Hartmut Möller , Hofheim: Cloud
  • 1998 The trend towards an event. About organizing contemporary music (Center for Contemporary Music 3 series), ed. together with Gerhard Eder, Saalfelden: Center for Contemporary Music
  • 1997 proximity and distance. Reflected music of the present 2 , Hofheim: cloud
  • 1997 Perspectives of a History of Occidental Music Listening (Writings on Musical Hermeneutics 7), Laaber: Laaber
  • 1996 Jazz, New Music and Media (Center for Contemporary Music 2 series) ed. together with Gerhard Eder , Saalfelden: Center for Contemporary Music
  • 1996 proximity and distance. Reflected music of the present 1 , Hofheim: cloud
  • 1995 Hermeneutics in a musicological context (writings on musical hermeneutics 4), ed. together with Siegfried Mauser , Laaber: Laaber
  • 1993 On the "miraculous mysticism" of Alban Berg [dissertation 1989], Vienna: Böhlau
  • 1992 Mozart in the music of the 20th century. Forms of aesthetic and compositional reception (writings on musical hermeneutics 2), ed. together with Siegfried Mauser, Laaber: Laaber
  • 1992 De Editione musices. Festschrift Gerhard Croll for his 65th birthday , ed. together with Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl , Laaber: Laaber

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Gratzer at the Mozarteum
  2. ^ Homepage of the doctoral college
personal data
SURNAME Gratzer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Vöslau