Gregor Herzfeld

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Gregor Herzfeld (born in 1975) is a German musicologist.

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Life and career

Herzfeld studied musicology and philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and at the Scuola di Paleografia musicale [1] from 1996 to 2001. In 2001 he obtained the Magister Artium with a thesis on the US-American composers Elliott Carter and Morton Feldman. From 2002 to 2005 he was research fellow at the Musicology Department of the University of Heidelberg. From 2005 to 2006 he worked as a research assistant at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, with funding from the German Academic Exchange Service. In 2006 he was awarded a doctorate at the Heidelberg University with a thesis on experimental American music. Afterwards he was visiting lecturer at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart and received scholarships from the Paul-Sacher Foundation  [ de ] in Basel and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

From 2007 to 2015 Herzfeld was a research assistant at the Department of musicology of the Freie Universität Berlin with Albrecht Riethmüller and contributing editor of the journal Archiv für Musikwissenschaft . In 2012 Herzfeld gained his habilitation with a thesis on Edgar Allan Poe in music. In the winter semester 2012/2013 he represented the chair of historical musicology of Wolfgang Rathert at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. [2] 2017 he habilitated at the University of Basel. [3] Since 2018 he has been academic professor of historical musicology at the University of Vienna. [4]

From 2015 to 2018 Herzfeld was dramaturge of the Freiburger Barockorchester and also responsible for press and public relations. [5]

Herzfeld publishes technical essays and book contributions on American music, especially of the 20th century, on music and philosophy, on aesthetics of music and on musical analysis of the 19th and 20th centuries. He lectured at universities and cultural institutions in Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and the United States.

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References

  1. ↑ Scuola di Paleografia musicale in Cremona
  2. ↑ PD Dr. Gregor Herzfeld represents the professorship ... on kunstwissenschaften.uni-muenchen.de, September 25, 2012
  3. ↑ Habilitationen und Berufungen Juli 2017. In Research and Teaching. 7/17, retrieved on 19 December 2019
  4. ↑ Habilitations and Appointments April 2018. In "Research and Teaching. 4/18, retrieved on 19 December 2019
  5. ↑ Neuer Dramaturg beim Freiburger Barockorchester. In Badische Zeitung. 7 September 2015.
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