Hermann Danuser

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Hermann Danuser (born 3 October 1946) is a Swiss-German

musicologist
.

Life

Born in Frauenfeld, Danuser studied piano, oboe, musicology, philosophy and German language and literature at the Musikhochschule and the University of Zurich from 1965; he received his doctorate with a dissertation on musical prose. From 1973 he studied in Berlin with Carl Dahlhaus (musicology) and Gerhard Puchelt (piano). After working as a research assistant, he habilitated in 1982 at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on the music of the 20th century (published in 1984). From 1982 to 1988, Danuser taught as professor for musicology at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, then from 1988 to 1993 as professor for musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. From 1993 until his retirement in 2014, he held the chair for Historical Musicology at the Institute for Musicology and Media Studies of the Humboldt University of Berlin.[1]

Danuser also coordinates research at the Paul-Sacher-Stiftung [de] Basel; from 1996 to 2017 he was member of the board of trustees of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung [de]. He has held guest professorships at several leading universities in Europe and the USA. In the academic year 2017/18 he taught at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

Research

Danuser's research focuses on

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
) as well as manifestations of musical self-reference (monograph Metamusik, 2017). Danuser's extensive publishing and editorial activities make him one of the most important German-speaking musicologists of the present day.

Honours

Danuser is a full member of the

Royal Holloway of the University of London awarded him the title of Doctor of Music honoris causa for his scientific merits; a further honorary doctorate was conferred on him in 2014 by the National University of Music Bucharest.[3] In 2015 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
.

Publications

Monographs

Editions of musical works

Published writings

Series and journals

Private editions

Lectures, essays and articles

Hundreds of essays and articles in specialist periodicals and reference works, introductions, forewords and epilogues, honours, newspaper articles and much more  a.m.[4] A selection of 125 texts has been published in a four-volume edition (arranged under the volume titles "Theory", "Aesthetics", "Historiography" and "Analysis"):

  • Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen; Christian Schaper; Laure Spaltenstein, eds. (2014). Gesammelte Vorträge und Aufsätze. Schliengen: Edition Argus. .

Dedicated works

External links

References

  1. ^ Biography on the chair pages of the Humboldt University of Berlin
  2. ^ Lorenz Jäger: The Ninth as Paradigm. For the seventieth birthday of Hermann Danuser. In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 5 October 2016, p. N3.
  3. ^ Announcement on the chair pages of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  4. ^ A comprehensive list can be found on the Chair pages of the Humboldt University Berlin.