Christoph Kammertöns (born 1966) is a German musicologist and

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Life

Born in

Bochum Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...

, Kammertöns studied instrumental pedagogy (piano) at the

Folkwang University of the Arts The Folkwang University of the Arts is a university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in four German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in E ...

as well as musicology,

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, philosophy and history at the same place, at the

University of Duisburg-Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...

and at the

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. With a dissertation on

Henri Herz Henri Herz (6 January 1803 – 5 January 1888) was a virtuoso pianist, composer and piano manufacturer, Austrian by birth and French by nationality and domicile. He was a professor in the Paris Conservatoire for more than thirty years. Among his ...

in the mirror of the French music criticism of his time, he was awarded the

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in 1999. His musicological interest is directed towards the piano and its music, the distinctive character of the piano as an "instrument of domination", and generally on instrumental and symbolic functions of bourgeois musical culture. In addition, he is concerned with musical-philosophical questions among others on openness and incompleteness, corporeality and performative utterance. Kammertöns is also a teacher of music, education and philosophy. He previously worked, among other things, as a dramaturge for dance at the as well as a ballet pianist.

Publications (selection)

* ''Friedrich Wiecks "Clavier und Gesang" und andere musikpädagogische Schriften.'' Annotated ed. by

Tomi Mäkelä Tomi Matti Mäkelä (born 4 January 1964 in Lahti) is a Finnish musicologist and pianist, professor at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. He studied music and musicology in Lahti, Vienna, Berlin (West) and Helsinki. As a pia ...

and Christoph Kammertöns. Von Bockel Verlag, Hamburg 1998, . * ''Chronique Scandaleuse. Henri Herz – ein Enfant terrible in der französischen Musikkritik des 19. Jahrhunderts'' (''Folkwang-Texte.'' Volume 15). Die blaue Eule, Essen 2000, (323 p.; Dr. phil. thesis, Folkwang University of the Arts, 1999). * ''Lexikon des Klaviers. Baugeschichte, Spielpraxis, Komponisten und ihre Werke, Interpreten.'' Edited by Christoph Kammertöns and Siegfried Mauser, with a foreword by

Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim (; in he, דניאל בארנבוים, born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin. He has been since 1992 General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeist ...

. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2006, . * ''Das Klavier. Instrument und Musik'' (''Beck’sche Reihe.'' 2752; ''C.H.Beck Wissen''). C.H.Beck, Munich 2013, . * '' Friedrich Wieck – Gesammelte Schriften über Musik und Musiker. Aufsätze und Aphorismen über Geschmack, Lebenswelt, Virtuosität, Musikerziehung und Stimmbildung, mit Kommentaren und mit einer historischen Einführung'' (''Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Musik.'' Vol. 10). Edited by Tomi Mäkelä, Christoph Kammertöns and Lena Esther Ptasczynski. Peter Lang, Berlin 2019, .

References

External links

* (including publications on philosophy and history)
Literature by and about Christoph Kammertöns
in catalogue of the
Literature by and about Christoph Kammertöns
in catalogue of the

Bibliography of Music Literature The Bibliography of Music Literature (BMS or BMS online, german: Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums) is an international bibliography of literature on music. It considers all kind of music and includes both current and older literature. Since 196 ...

Academic focus at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf

kammertoens.info.
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