Andres Briner (31 May 1923 – 1 June 2014) was a Swiss

music historian Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view. In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history o ...

, academic and art journalist

Life

Briner was born in

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and educated at the

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. In musicology he was a student of

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. In 1953 he received his doctorate from Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez at the University of Zurich. From 1968, Briner was active at the as a member of the foundation board, and from 1986 to 1998 he was its president., Musinfo, retrieved on 20 December 2019. He worked with

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at the Zurich Radio Studio from 1953 to 1955, after which he went to the Department of Music at the

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, where he taught until 1964. From 1964 to 1988 he was the successor of

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as editor of the feature section of the ''

Neue Zürcher Zeitung The ''Neue Zürcher Zeitung'' (''NZZ''; "New Journal of Zürich") is a Swiss, German-language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zürich. The paper was founded in 1780. It was described as having a reputation as a high-quality ne ...

'' in the fields of music and musicology. Briner's main areas of work were the work of Paul Hindemith and

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since 1880, as well as composers in Switzerland and the history of music in Zurich. Briner died in Zürich at the age of 91

Honours

* 2006: Honorary Doctorate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the

University of Zürich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

.''Ehrendoktor 2006 der Philosophischen Fakultät''
Website of the University of Zürich, retrieved on 20 December 2019.

Publications

* ''Der Wandel der Musik als Zeitkunst.'' Universal Edition, Vienna 1955 ( Dissertation, Universität Zürich, 1953, als ''Versuch über die musikalische Zeitgestalt und ihre Wandlung in der europäischen Musik seit der mensuralen Mehrstimmigkeit''). * ''

.'' Atlantis, Zürich und Freiburg, 1971. * with

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: ''Paul Hindemith. Leben und Werk in Bild und Text.'' Schott, Mainz 1988, .
In Italian: ''Paul Hindemith. Vita e opere.'' DeFerrari, Genua 1995, . * ''Musikalische Koexistenz.'' Edittor Giselher Schubert. With a foreword by

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. Schott, Mainz 1993, .

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References

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