Friedrich Geiger (born in 1966) is a German musicologist.
Born in Munich, Geiger studied music, historical and systematic musicology and Latin philology in Munich and Hamburg. After gaining his PhD in 1997 with a thesis on Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel, he headed the Research and Information Centre for ostracized Music at the Dresden Centre for Contemporary Music from 1997 to 2002. He then lectured at the musicological institutes of the TU Dresden and the University of Hamburg. After his habilitation in 2003 with a study on the persecution of composers under Hitler and Stalin, he was research assistant and lecturer at the musicological seminar of the Free University of Berlin in the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft special research area Aesthetic Experience in the Sign of the Dissolution of Artistic Limits from 2003 to 2007. Since summer semester 2007 he has been teaching as professor for historical musicology at the University of Hamburg. [1]
His research focuses on music history from the 18th century to the present, music of antiquity and ancient reception in music, music in dictatorships, historiography of popular music, geography of music history and music aesthetics and musical judgement.
Werner Egk, born Werner Joseph Mayer, was a German composer.
Friedrich Goldmann was a German composer and conductor.
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Heinrich Strobel was a German musicologist.
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Die Musikforschung is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of musicological which since 1948 is published on behalf of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung by Bärenreiter. The editors-in-chief are Panja Mücke, Manuel Gervink, and Friedrich Geiger. The journal covers music history, theory, and practice. A review section discusses German and foreign-language books and scholarly editions of sheet music. Reports provide summaries of relevant congresses and conferences.
Walter Salmen was a German musicologist and university lecturer. Salmen taught from 1958 to 1992 as a professor of musicology at the Saarland University and the University of Kiel. Afterwards, he was for many years the full professor of the Musicological Institute of the University of Innsbruck. As a guest lecturer, he also worked in Switzerland, Israel and the United States. After retirement, he lived in Kirchzarten near Freiburg im Breisgau, and worked as honorary professor at the University of Freiburg.
Michael Custodis is a German musicologist, sociologist and university lecturer at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster.
Kurt von Fischer was a Swiss musicologist and classical pianist.
Hermann Danuser is a Swiss-German musicologist.
Hans Joachim Marx is a German music historian. He has been professor of European music history at the University of Hamburg.
Hanns-Werner Heister is a German musicologist.
Michael Heinemann is a German musicologist and university professor.
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Kurt Gudewill was a German musicologist and University lecturer. From 1952 to 1976 he was professor at the musicological institute of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. He rendered outstanding services to Heinrich Schütz and Lied research.
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Peter Petersen is a German musicologist, professor emeritus of the University of Hamburg. He focus on 20th-century music, rhythm, and was instrumental in the university's Exile Music Working Group and the online Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen der NS-Zeit.
Richard Matthias Jakoby was a German music teacher and cultural manager and until 1993 director of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.
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Otto Reinhold was a German composer and music educator