Gabriele Buschmeier (13 March 1955 – 14 July 2020) was a German musicologist.Musikwissenschaftlerin Gabriele Buschmeier gestorben
17 July 2020 From 2012 until her death in 2020, she was Vice President of the .

Career

Buschmeier studied German, history, and musicology at universities in Cologne and Paris. She completed a doctoral degree at the

University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stud ...

with a thesis, ''Die Entwicklung von Arie und Szene in der französischen Oper von Gluck bis Spontini'', which studied the evolution of solo songs in European opera. The revised version of her thesis, which was published in 1991, was "warmly recommended" by Jesse Rosenberg, although with criticism for the choices and reliability of her sources. From 1994 onwards, she worked as a senior consultant for the coordination of musicological editions at the

Academy of Sciences and Literature The Academy of Sciences and Literature (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, AdW Mainz) is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin. The academy's goal is to su ...

in Mainz. Buschmeier died on 14 July 2020, aged 65.

References

1955 births 2020 deaths German musicologists People from Paderborn Place of death missing Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni 20th-century German women scientists 21st-century German women scientists {{Germany-musicologist-stub