Susanne Fontaine (born 31 January 1961) is a German musicologist and university teacher.
Born in Merzig/Saarland, Fontaine studied musicology, Germanistic and philosophy from 1980 until 1986 at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, School music at the Universität der Künste Berlin as well as musicology and Germanistic at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.
From 1992 to 1998 Fontaine was a research assistant at the Hochschule der Künste; in 1999 she received a habilitation scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft on the topic The figure of Maria Magdalena in the music of the 17th and 18th century. In 2000 and 2001 she held the professorship for musicology at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. In the winter semester 2002/03 Fontaine was a lecturer at the musicology department of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. In 2003 she was appointed professor at the University of Potsdam and in 2004 she moved to the Berlin University of the Arts.
Fontaine's research focuses on religious music of the 17th century, the early 20th century and interdisciplinary issues.
Fontaine is chairwoman of the Berlin chapter of the German University Association. [1]
Philipp Jarnach was a German composer of modern music, pianist, teacher, and conductor.
Friedrich Blume was professor of musicology at the University of Kiel from 1938 to 1958. He was a student in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig, and taught in the last two of these for some years before being called to the chair in Kiel. His early studies were on Lutheran church music, including several books on J.S. Bach, but broadened his interests considerably later. Among his prominent works were chief editor of the collected Praetorius edition, and he also edited the important Eulenburg scores of the major Mozart Piano Concertos. From 1949 he was involved in the planning and writing of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
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