Wolfgang Sandberger

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Wolfgang Sandberger

Wolfgang Sandberger (born September 12, 1961 in Weingarten , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German musicologist and has been a professor of musicology and head of the Brahms Institute at the Lübeck University of Music since 1999 .

Life

Wolfgang Sandberger first studied cello at the Osnabrück Conservatory / Music Academy in Hanover (with Eckhard Stahl ). After graduating in 1986, he studied musicology (with Hans Joachim Marx ), philosophy (with Klaus Oehler ) and history (with Bernd-Jürgen Wendt ) at the universities of Münster and Hamburg (Magister). In 1995 he received his doctorate with a thesis on "The Bach Picture by Philipp Spittas". His dissertation was awarded the prize of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences . In 1999 he was offered a professorship at the Lübeck University of Music and has since been director of the Brahms Institute.

Between 1993 and 2003 he was a permanent freelancer at NDR (with around 150 broadcasts a year). From 1998 to 1999 he took over editorial representation at WDR in the departments “Early Music” and “Feature”. Since then he has been an author and presenter for various ARD broadcasters .

Publications have appeared on the history of music from the 17th to the 21st century, the main areas of work are, in addition to the focus on Johannes Brahms, biographical-historical, reception-historical and scientific-historical issues.

Sandberger is married to the singer Juliane Sandberger , geb. Harder and has three daughters with her. Sandberger is secondarily the great-nephew of Adolf Sandberger .

Act

The focus of Sandberger's work is the Brahms Institute at the Lübeck University of Music. In addition to his research contributions to Johannes Brahms, he carried out several development projects as a project manager as well as the DFG project “Brahms-Briefwechsel -verzeichnis” (2006–2009). Since 2003 he has also devoted himself intensively to digitizing the collection. So far, more than 40,000 digital copies have been made available to the public. He is in charge of numerous exhibitions at the institute, which are documented in the catalogs published by edition text + kritik in Munich.

Sandberger is also involved in music education in a variety of ways. He is currently working as an author and presenter for various ARD broadcasters, currently in the programs "Musikstunde" on SWR2 and "Klassikforum" on WDR 3 . He advises various festivals such as the Göttingen International Handel Festival and has been the project manager of the Brahms Festival at the Lübeck University of Music since 2013. Since 2014 he has designed the annual festival symposium of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival .

Sandberger is chairman of the board of the Göttingen Handel Society, deputy chairman of the Music History Commission , board member and scientific advisory board of the Johannes Brahms Gesamtausgabe München, deputy chairman of the board of the Brahms Society Schleswig-Holstein, supervisory board of the Göttingen International Handel Festival, board member of the international Dieterich-Buxtehude- Lübeck Society as well as a member of the Foundation Board and the Working Committee of the Possehl Foundation .

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • The Bach picture of Philipp Spitta. A contribution to the reception of Bach in the 19th century [supplements to the archive for musicology ed. v. Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht in connection with Reinhold Brinkmann, Ludwig Finscher, Kurt von Fischer, Wolfgang Osthoff a. Albrecht Riethmüller, vol. XXXIX]. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997. ISBN 978-3515070089 .
  • Bach 2000 - 24 inventions about Johann Sebastian Bach. Metzler-Verlag, Stuttgart 1999. ISBN 978-3476016706 . (published in numerous languages, including English, French, Spanish, Japanese; also appeared as a 24-part radio series on NDR, ORB, WDR, SWR)
  • Imagination and canon. The 'composers' heaven ' in the Zurich Tonhalle from 1895. Bicentennial New Years paper of the Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft Zürich for 2016. Amadeus Distribution Barbara Päuler, Winterthur 2016. ISBN 978-3905075236 .

As editor

  • Publications by the Brahms Institute at the Lübeck University of Music . Vol. I – XII, Edition text + kritik, Lübeck a. Munich.
  • (since 2006 with Hans Joachim Marx / Laurenz Lütteken): Göttingen Handel Contributions . Vol. XI – XX, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen.
  • (in cooperation with the Kulturstiftung der Länder, Berlin): "Liebesgluth" Op. 47, No. 2 by Johannes Brahms. Autograph for the Brahms Institute at the Musikhochschule Lübeck [Patrimonia 292]. Lübeck 2015. ISSN 0941-7036.
  • (with Maren Golz and Christiane Wiesenfeldt): Late phase (s)? Johannes Brahms' works of the 1880s and 1890s. International Musicological Symposium Meiningen September 24-26, 2008 . Henle, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3873281257 .
  • Brahms Handbook . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2009. ISBN 978-3476022332 .
  • (with Christiane Wiesenfeldt): Music and music research. Johannes Brahms in dialogue with history . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2007. ISBN 978-3761821015 .
  • Bach, Lübeck and the northern German music tradition. Report on the International Symposium of the Lübeck University of Music April 2000 . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2002. ISBN 978-3761815854 .
  • (in cooperation with the Kulturstiftung der Länder, Berlin): Music manuscripts and letters from the Avé-Lallemant family archive [Patrimonia 197]. Lübeck 2001. ISSN 0941-7036.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sandberger - Brahms Institute at the Lübeck University of Music. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Jahrbuch / Yearbook 2018, published by the Possehl Foundation Lübeck 2019. Retrieved on February 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sandberger, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Weingarten , Baden-Wuerttemberg