Arne Stollberg (born in 1973) is a German

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...

and university professor.

Career

Born in

Wetzlar Wetzlar () is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany. It is the twelfth largest city in Hesse with currently 55,371 inhabitants at the beginning of 2019 (including second homes). As an important cultural, industrial and commercial center, the un ...

, Stollberg studied musicology as well as

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

, film and media studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt. From 2001 to 2012 he worked first as an assistant, then as senior assistant and finally as a lecturer at the Institute for Musicology of the

University of Bern The University of Bern (german: Universität Bern, french: Université de Berne, la, Universitas Bernensis) is a university in the Swiss capital of Bern and was founded in 1834. It is regulated and financed by the Canton of Bern. It is a compreh ...

. From 2012, he was professor at the

University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis'', German: ''Universität Basel'') is a university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universit ...

. In 2014, Stollberg was appointed to the Institute of Musicology at the

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative ...

and since April 2015 he has been Professor of

Historical Musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

at the Institute of Musicology and Media Studies at the

. Stollberg's research focus is primarily in the field of

music aesthetics Aesthetics of music () is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty and taste in music, and with the creation or appreciation of beauty in music. In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics exp ...

and musical analysis, but is also a specialist in music theatre and instrumental music from the 18th to the 21st century. Stollberg is also the editor of anthologies and conference proceedings. He is also co-editor and editor of the journal ''Wagnerspectrum''. Stollberg is married to the musicologist Ivana Rentsch.

Publications

* ''Durch den Traum zum Leben. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opera ''

Die tote Stadt ' (German for ''The Dead City''), Op. 12, is an opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold set to a libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the composer and his father, Julius Korngold. It is based on the 1892 novel '' Bruges-la-Mo ...

''.'' Author: Arne Stollberg Mainz 2003. 2nd edition 2004 (''Musik im Kanon der Künste.'' 1). * ''Ohr und Auge – Klang und Form. Facetten einer musikästhetischen Dichotomie bei Johann Gottfried Herder, Richard Wagner and Franz Schreker.'' Stuttgart 2006 (Supplements to the ''

Archiv für Musikwissenschaft The ''Archiv für Musikwissenschaft'' is a quarterly German-English-speaking trade magazine devoted to music history and historical musicology, which publishes articles by well-known academics and young scholars. It was founded in 1918 as the s ...

.'' 58). * Arne Stollberg (ed.): ''Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Wunderkind der Moderne oder letzter Romantiker?'' Essaysammlung. edition text + kritik, Munich 2008, . * ''Tönend bewegte Dramen. Die Idee des Tragischen in der Orchestermusik vom späten 18. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert.'' Munich 2014. * Matthias Schmidt, Arne Stollberg (ed.): ''Das Bildliche und das Unbildliche.

Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his car ...

, Wagner und das Musikdrama.''''Das Bildliche und das Unbildliche : Nietzsche, Wagner und das Musikdrama''
on WorldCat Fink, Paderborn 2015.

Awards

* 2005: ''Prix jubilé'' of the (SAGW) * 2011: ''Theodor-Kocher-Preis'' of the University of Bern * 2012 until 2015: Professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the Musicology Seminar of the University of Basel, with the project ''Hörbare Gebärden – Der Körper in der Musik''.

References

External links

Arne Stollberg auf der Website der Humboldt-Universität

Arne Stollberg on WorldCat
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