Gerhard Allroggen (born 19 May 1936) 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 ...

and ''

emeritus ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...

'' University professor from

Detmold Detmold () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of . It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of ...

and

Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...

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 ...

, Allroggen gained his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

in 1976 at the

Ruhr-Universität Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...

. From 1977 he was professor at the of the

Hochschule für Musik Detmold The Hochschule für Musik Detmold is a university-level music school situated in Detmold, Germany. Academics The Hochschule offers performance degrees in composition, all orchestral instruments, piano, voice, opera, art-song, conducting, as we ...

. From 1991 to 1995 he was also vice-rector of the

Paderborn University Paderborn University (german: Universität Paderborn) is one of the fourteen public research universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter ...

. He retired in 2001. Allroggen's research interests include the music and musical aesthetics of early German Romanticism,

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

, and the Neapolitan Opera of the late 18th century. Allroggen was a member of the ''

Neue Mozart-Ausgabe The ''Neue Mozart-Ausgabe'' (''NMA''; English: ''New Mozart Edition'') is the second complete works edition of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A longer and more formal title for the edition is ''Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Neue A ...

'', co-editor of the complete edition of the literary works of E. T. A. Hoffmann and is currently leader of the

Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe The ''Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe'' (short ''WeGA'') is a scientific-critical edition of all works of the composer Carl Maria von Weber, published by the Schott Music publishing house in Mainz. Content The edition, which is sponsored ...

Publications

* ''E. T. A. Hoffmanns Kompositionen. Ein chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis seiner musikalischen Werke mit Einführung'' (''Studien zur Musikgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts'', vol. 16) Regensburg: Bosse, 1970 * E. T. A. Hoffmann, ''Die lustigen Musikanten. Singspiel in zwei Akten''. (''Ausgewählte musikalische Werke von E. T. A. Hoffmann''), Mainz: Schott, 1975/76 * ''Weber-Studien''. (co-editor), continuous series. * ''Festschrift Arno Forchert zum 60. Geburtstag''.''Festschrift Arno Forchert zum 60. Geburtstag am 29. Dezember 1985''
on WorldCat

Festschrift

* Joachim Veit and Frank Ziegler (ed.): ''Weber-Studien'', vol. 3 (''Festschrift Gerhard Allroggen zum 60. Geburtstag''), Mainz 1996

References

External links

Gerhard Allroggen in WorldCat

Gerhard Allroggen als Herausgeber der Weber-Gesamtausgabe
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Allroggen, Gerhard 20th-century German musicologists 1936 births Living people People from Bochum