Wolfgang Sandner (music critic)

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Wolfgang Sandner (born July 3, 1942 in Ossegg ) is a German music critic, musicologist and jazz author .

Life

Sandner has lived in Frankfurt am Main since 1947 , where he attended the Helmholtz School and then studied Romance languages, history, art history and musicology. In 1971 he did his doctorate on the clarinet with Carl Maria von Weber in musicology and was then program director and producer for contemporary music at the Schott music label Wergo and responsible for the music lexicon of Hugo Riemann , the Wiener Urtext Edition and complete editions, among other things by Richard Wagner , Arnold Schönberg , Paul Hindemith . In addition, in the 1960s he was a critic, primarily concerned with popular music, published several books on rock and jazz music and, from 1978 to 1985, lectured at the University of Frankfurt . He has been a freelance music critic since 1968, from 1968 with the Frankfurter Neue Presse and from 1970 with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , where he was music editor from 1981 to 2007 and for which he continues to write. From 2002 to 2007 he held a professorship for music theater criticism at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main , and has been teaching performance analysis at the University of Marburg since 2008 .

Fonts

  • The clarinet with Carl Maria von Weber Wiesbaden, Breitkopf and Härtel, 1971
  • Jazz - on the history and stylistic development of Afro-American music , Laaber, Laaber Verlag 1982
  • Miles Davis - Eine Biographie , Rowohlt, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-87134-677-4
  • Keith Jarrett. A biography Rowohlt, Berlin 2015 ISBN 978-3-87134-780-1
as editor
  • Jazz in Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main Societäts-Verlag 1990
  • Small dictionary of music art - in twenty-one deliveries and with an encore, 2 volumes , Salzburg, Residenz Verlag 1999 and 2001
  • Rock music - aspects of history, aesthetics, production , Mainz, Schott, 1977
  • Heiner Goebbels - composition as a staging , Berlin, Henschel 2002
  • Jazz, Handbook of Music in the 20th Century, Volume 9 , Laaber, Laaber Verlag, 2005 (with contribution from Sandner on Jazz in the Arts )
  • 25 music classics , 2006
  • Editor (with Rainer Kern and Hans-Jürgen Linke): The blue sound - music, literature, film, soundtracks: The sphere of activity of ECM and the European-American music dialogue , Wolke 2010
Article in
  • Klaus Wolbert (Ed.) That´s Jazz - the sound of the 20th century , exhibition catalog Darmstadt 1988, Häusser Verlag 1997 (including preforms of jazz, minstrel and ragtime , gospel and spiritual , Mississippi jazz goes up the river )
  • Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, Rolf W. Stoll (eds.) Identities: The composer and conductor Peter Eötvös Mainz, Schott 2005

See also

→ List of former students at the Helmholtz School Frankfurt am Main

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Sandner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music critic, musicologist and jazz author
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Ossegg