Albrecht Dümling

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Albrecht Dümling (born 1949) is a German

music critic
.

Biography

Born in

Arnold Schönberg and Stefan George, with Carl Dahlhaus as his mentor. In 1985 he published his comprehensive work on Bertolt Brecht’s collaboration with composers. As a co-founder of the "International Hanns Eisler Society",[1]
Dümling was instrumental in creating the new "Gesamtausgabe" (complete edition) of the musical and literary works of the composer.

Following twenty years as music critic for the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel (1978–1998), Dümling contributed to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "Neue Musik-Zeitung"[2] and several radio programs. He is also a "Honorary Research Associate" at the Royal Holloway, University of London, a "Research Fellow" at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and a member of the Advisory Board to the "International Centre for Suppressed Music"'[3] in London.

As a scholar at the

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
.

In 1990, Dümling was appointed chairman of "musica reanimata",

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 2004 he received the Harold White Fellowship[6] from the National Library of Australia
.

In 1992 Dümling wrote the official biography of German composer Leon Jessel (1871–1942). He revised and republished the biography in 2012.[7][8]

Dümling was awarded the European Cultural Prize "KAIROS"[9] of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, for the rediscovery of persecuted musicians.

Selected bibliography

  • Dümling, Albrecht. Laßt euch nicht verführen! Brecht und die Musik. München: Kindler, 1985
  • Dümling, Albrecht. Die verweigerte Heimat: Leon Jessel, der Komponist des "Schwarzwaldmädel" (The Denied Homeland: Leon Jessel, Composer of "Black Forest Girl"). Düsseldorf: Der kleine Verlag, 1992. Revised in 2012 and published by Lukas Verlag.
  • Dümling, Albrecht. Die verschwundenen Musiker: Jüdische Flüchtlinge in Australien. Böhlau Verlag, 2011.
  • Albrecht Dümling/Peter Girth (eds). Entartete Musik: Dokumentation und Kommentar zur Düsseldorfer Ausstellung von 1938. Düsseldorf: Der Kleine Verlag, 1988. Expanded edition 1993.
  • Dümling, Albrecht (2003). Musik hat ihren Wert. 100 Jahre musikalische Verwertungsgesellschaft in Deutschland. Regensburg: ConBrio. .
  • Dümling, Albrecht. The Vanished Musicians. Jewish Refugees in Australia. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016.

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