Wolfgang Rathert

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Wolfgang Rathert (born July 17, 1960 in Minden ) is a German musicologist .

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Wolfgang Rathert passed the C-examination as a church musician during his school days and obtained the Abitur at the Herder-Gymnasium Minden . After doing his community service he studied historical musicology , philosophy and modern history at the Free University of Berlin from 1980 to 1987 . In 1987 he was at Rudolf Stephan with a thesis on the American composer Charles Ives Dr. phil. PhD .

He then worked for the handbook of historical book collections and then with a grant from the German Research Foundation, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel . From 1989 to 1991 he completed a career training as a scientific librarian at the State Library in Berlin and at the University of Applied Sciences for Library and Documentation in Cologne, which he completed with an assessor thesis on the historical textbook collection ( opera libretti ) of the music department of the Berlin State Library.

From 1991 to 2002 he headed the music and performing arts department of the library of the Berlin University of the Arts ; In addition, in 1994/1995 he was briefly head of the music department of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library . From 1996 to 2002 he was a lecturer and lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin , 1999, under the mentorship of at Hermann Danuser habilitated . In the summer semester of 2000 he took the chair of Wilhelm Seidel at the Musicological Institute of the University of Leipzig .

In 2002 he was appointed professor of historical musicology with a focus on the 20th century and new music at the Institute for Musicology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He has given guest lectures at Cornell University , Harvard University , the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Seoul National University, among others .

Wolfgang Rathert has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Géza Anda Foundation in Zurich since 2012 . Since 2014 he has been chairman of the jury of the Schneider Schott Music Prize in Mainz and a member of the board of trustees and the scientific committee of the Paul Sacher Foundation. He is also chairman of the advisory board of the German Music Archives , deputy managing director of the Karl Amadeus Hartmann Society in Munich and a member of the project advisory board of the music information center of the German music council . He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century book series and the Advisory Board of the magazine Musik-Concepts .

Awards

Publications

Author:

  • The Seen and Unseen. Studies on the work of Charles Ives. Dissertation. Free University of Berlin 1987. Katzbichler, Munich / Salzburg 1991, ISBN 3-87397-078-3 .
  • Charles Ives. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1989, ISBN 3-534-03249-7 . 2nd edition 1996.
  • The libretto collection of the music department of the German State Library Berlin with special consideration of the Mozart operas. Assessor thesis. University of Applied Sciences for Libraries and Documentation, Cologne 1991.
  • (Co-author): The Max Reger Collection in the City Archives Weiden id OPf. Carus, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89948-086-3 .
  • with Berndt Ostendorf: Music of the USA. Forays into culture and music history. Wolke, Hofheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-95593-112-4 .

Editing:

  • with Dietmar Schenk: pianists in Berlin. Piano playing and piano training since the 19th century. Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89462-068-4 .
  • with Dietmar Schenk: Carl Flesch and Max Rostal. Aspects of the Berlin string tradition. University of the Arts Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89462-090-0 .
  • with Giselher Schubert : Music Culture in the Weimar Republic. Schott, Mainz et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7957-0114-7 .
  • with Jürgen Selk: Kurt Weill : Chamber Music. Score and critical commentary. Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, New York 2004, ISBN 0-913574-63-5 .
  • with Herbert Schneider , Karl Anton Rickenbacher : Olivier Messiaen : texts, analyzes, testimonials. 2 volumes. Olms, Hildesheim.
    Volume 1: Texts from the Traité de rythme, de couleur et d'ornithologie. 2012, ISBN 978-3-487-14765-9 .
    Volume 2: The work in a historical and analytical context. 2013, ISBN 978-3-487-14766-6 .
  • with Carol J. Oja, Anne C. Shreffler, Felix Meyer: Crosscurrents. European and American Music in Interaction, 1900-2000. Proceedings of the Conferences at Cambridge, Mass. 2008, and Munich 2009. Boydell, Suffolk 2014, ISBN 978-1-84383-900-2 .
  • with Burcu Dogramaci, Berenika Szymanski-Düll: Leave, left, left. Migration phenomena in the arts in current and historical perspective. Neofelis, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95808-241-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Rathert on prabook.org
  2. ↑ New board , press release on karl-amadeus-hartmann-gesellschaft.de, February 6, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rathert, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden