Wolfgang Hirschmann (musicologist)

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Wolfgang Hirschmann (born 1960 in Fürth ) is a German musicologist .

Wolfgang Hirschmann studied from 1979 to 1985 musicology, German literature and theater studies at the University of Erlangen , where he in 1985 with the work studies the concert work by Georg Philipp Telemann doctorate was. He then worked as a research assistant in Erlangen and received a grant from the German Research Foundation until he received his habilitation in Erlangen in 1999 . The title of his habilitation thesis was Auctoritas und Imitatio. Studies on the reception of Guidos Micrologus in music theory of the High and Late Middle Ages.

Initially as a private lecturer, from 2002 as an academic adviser , he taught in Erlangen, where in 2005 he received an extraordinary professorship at the Musicological Institute. In March 2007 he was appointed to the chair of historical musicology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg , succeeding Wolfgang Ruf . Since 2009 he has - also succeeds Wolfgang Ruf - President George Frideric Handel Society , an international association that, among other things since 1955 with the Halle Handel Edition is a historical-critical edition of the works of the composer George Frideric Handel ( 1685–1759) publishes.

Publications (selection)

  • Studies in concert work by Georg Philipp Telemann. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1986.

As editor:

  • with Bernhard Jahn: Johann Mattheson as mediator and initiator. Knowledge transfer and the establishment of new discourses in the first half of the 18th century. Olms, Hildesheim 2010.
  • Handel's Messiah. On the relationship between enlightenment, religion and knowledge in the 18th century (= small writings of the IZEA . Volume 3). Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2011.
  • with Peter Wollny: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and the Protestant church cantata after 1750 (= Forum Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik. Volume 1). Ortus-Musikverlag, Beeskow 2012.
  • with Bernhard Jahn: Johann Mattheson. Texts from the estate. Olms, Hildesheim 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Hirschmann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth