Eckehard Kiem (12 September 1950 in
Berka vor dem Hainich
Berka vor dem Hainich is a municipality in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany.
Nearby is the site of an early historical fortification known as the Alte Burg.
The music theorist
Music theory is the study of the practices and p ...
– 29 December 2012) was a German
music theorist
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, university professor and
composer.
In his major fields of study he concentrated - in addition to a practical and analytical examination of vocal
polyphony
Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice, monophony, or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords, ...
in
Renaissance music, above all on the work and life of
Richard Wagner.
Life
Kiem studied school music,
music theory with
Peter Förtig and
musical composition with
Brian Ferneyhough and
Klaus Huber
Klaus Huber (30 November 1924 – 2 October 2017) was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho. ...
as well as
German studies and
musicology in Mannheim and Freiburg.
Already in 1980 he became professor for music theory at the
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
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. In the early 1990s he founded the Dufay Ensemble Freiburg, a vocal ensemble specializing in undiscovered or rarely performed music of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and was its member until his death at the age of 62.
From 1998 to 2000 he was on the
advisory board of the
Staatstheater Stuttgart. He was co-editor of the journal ' and author of numerous publications. Together with
Ludwig Holtmeier (also Professor of Music Theory and current Rector of the Freiburg University of Music), Kiem published ''Richard Wagner und seine Zeit''.
Publications
* ''Musik in der Zeit, Zeit in der Musik''.
* ''Présent crénelé : für 6 Frauenstimmen
nd Percussion'. (1993)
* ''Aspekte des Historischen in der Musiktheorie''.
* ''Der Blick in den Abgrund : Zeitstruktur beim späten Beethoven''.
* ''Beziehungszauber und Zeitverhängnis : zur Leitmotivtechnik in "Rheingold", "Walküre" und "Götterdämmerung"''.
* ''Angstmusik : Mime und Wozzeck : eine Lanze für "Siegfried I"''.
* List of 14 publications in the
German National Library
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.
List of 14 publications
in the German National Library
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References
External links
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Eckehard Kiem an der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
Wiederveröffentlichung von Schriften Eckehard Kiems durch die Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
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1950 births
2012 deaths
Writers from Thuringia
German music theorists
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg faculty