Friedrich Geiger (born in 1966) 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 mu ...

Life

Born in

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, Geiger studied music, historical and systematic musicology and Latin

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in Munich and Hamburg. After gaining his

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in 1997 with a thesis on

Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel (17 February/29 February 1896 – 19 June 1984) was a Swiss composer of German and Russian descent. Life Born in Moscow, Vogel first studied composition in Moscow with Alexander Scriabin, then between 1918 and 1924 w ...

, he headed the Research and Information Centre for ostracized Music at the Dresden Centre for Contemporary Music from 1997 to 2002. He then

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d at the musicological institutes of the

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and the

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. After his

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in 2003 with a study on the persecution of composers under Hitler and Stalin, he was

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and lecturer at the musicological seminar of the

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in the

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special research area Aesthetic Experience in the Sign of the Dissolution of Artistic Limits from 2003 to 2007. Since summer semester 2007 he has been teaching as professor for

historical musicology Musicology (from Ancient Greek, 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, a ...

at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on music history from the 18th century to the present, music of antiquity and ancient reception in music, music in dictatorships, historiography of popular music, geography of music history and music aesthetics and musical judgement.

Publications

* ''Die Dramma-Oratorien von Wladimir Vogel 1896–1984''. Hamburg 1998, . * ''Musik in zwei Diktaturen. Verfolgung von Komponisten unter Hitler und Stalin''. Kassel 2004, . * ''Verdikte über Musik. 1950–2000''. Stuttgart 2005, . * with

Michael Custodis Michael Custodis (born 1973) is a German musicologist, sociologist and university lecturer at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. Career Born in Cologne, Custodis studied musicology, sociology, comparative politics, education ...

: ''Netzwerke der Entnazifizierung. Kontinuitäten im deutschen Musikleben am Beispiel von

Werner Egk Werner Egk (, 17 May 1901 – 10 July 1983), born Werner Joseph Mayer, was a German composer. Early career He was born in the Swabian town of Auchsesheim, today part of Donauwörth, Germany. His family, of Catholic peasant stock, moved to Augs ...

, Hilde und Heinrich Strobel''.''Netzwerke der Entnazifizierung : Kontinuitäten im deutschen Musikleben am Beispiel von Werner Egk, Hilde und Heinrich Strobel''
on WorldCat Münster 2013, .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Geiger, Friedrich German music historians 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists University of Hamburg faculty Writers from Munich 1966 births Living people