Wolfgang Rehm

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Wolfgang Rehm (born September 3, 1929 in Munich ; † April 6, 2017 ) was a German musicologist with the main occupational fields of "music publishing" and " New Mozart Edition " (1955 ff.).

Career

Wolfgang Rehm studied musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg from 1948 to 1952 (minor subjects: modern German literary history and medieval history) and was there in 1952 with a work on the chanson work of the Franco-Flemish composer Gilles Binchois (around 1400 to 20 September 1460) PhD.

From 1952 to 1954 Rehm volunteered at the music publisher Breitkopf & Härtel Wiesbaden and began on May 1, 1954 as a research assistant and editor at Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel , initially with a focus on total editions ".

In 1981/82 Rehm moved to Salzburg , where from 1981 to 1994 he was a full-time member of the editorial management of the New Mozart Edition (NMA), to which the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg had appointed him as editor of this edition in 1960 and in which he was until June 30, 2007, the official conclusion of the NMA consisting of 132 volumes, was actively involved and in which he was also jointly responsible.

From 1959 to 2002, Wolfgang Rehm was a board member of various specialist and artistically oriented societies and associations, at times also a member of the editorial board of the Gluck Complete Edition and the New Berlioz Edition, and he was one of the founders of the New Schubert Edition .

From 1975 to 1986 Rehm was responsible for the program design for the Kassel Music Days, and from 1985 to 1997 for those of the Salzburg Mozart Week. From 1965 he was a member of the Central Institute for Mozart Research (today: Academy for Mozart Research) at the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, of which he was a member of the board of trustees from 1991 to 1999.

Honors (selection)

Rehm was also an honorary member of most of the specialist societies for which he worked during his active career.

Publications

  • (in selection since 1989; but see Festschrift in the literature section )
  • Editions as part of the New Mozart Edition (including 1991 Così fan tutte and 1998 supplements. Volume 3: Piano music , both with Faye Ferguson), but above all critical reports on NMA volumes that have already been submitted:
  • 1996 to X / 29: Works of doubtful authenticity. Volume 2 (together with Franz Giegling)
  • 1998 to V / 18: Piano concertos. Volume 8
  • 1998 to IX / 25: Piano Sonatas . Volume 1 and 2
  • 1999 to II / 5/9 : Il re pastore (together with Pierluigi Petrobelli)
  • 2000 to IX / 27: Piano Pieces Volume 1 and 2
  • 2003 to II / 5/17 : Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni
  • 2004 to II / 5/2 : La finta semplice
  • The New Mozart Edition. Texts. Photos. Chronicle 1955–2007 (together with Dietrich Berke and with the collaboration of Miriam Pfadt), Kassel etc. 2007
  • Mozart's estate and Andrés. Documents for distribution and raffle from 1854 , Offenbach am Main 1999
  • Musicological introduction to the facsimile edition of Mozart's autograph for D on Giovanni KV 527, in: Mozart's Operas in Facsimile IV , The Packard Humanities Institute Los Altos / California 2009

literature

  • Dietrich Berke and Harald Heckmann (eds.): Festschrift Wolfgang Rehm on the occasion of Wolfgang Rehm's 60th birthday on September 3, 1989 . With a bibliography up to 1989. Kassel etc. 1989.
  • Article Rehm, Wolfgang . In: Music in the past and present . Second, revised edition, edited by Ludwig Finscher , personal section 13. Kassel etc. and Stuttgart-Weimar 2005, columns 1445–1446 (there selected bibliography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Forstner: Mozarteum Foundation mourns Professor Dr. Wolfgang Rehm (1929-2017). In: pressetext.com. April 12, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rehm, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2017