Giselher Schubert (born in 1944) 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 and career

Born in

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named ...

, Schubert studied musicology, sociology and philosophy at the

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

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Günther Massenkeil Günther Massenkeil (11 March 192617 December 2014) was a German musicologist, academic teacher, writer and concert singer ( baritone). His main field of research was sacred music of the 16th to 20th century. He served as director of the musicolo ...

, at the

Freie Universität Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

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Rudolf Stephan Rudolf Stephan (3 April 1925 – 29 September 2019) was a German musicologist. Life Stephan was born in Bochum. After studying violin at the conservatory, he entered the Institute of Heidelberg, where he studied musicology at the University unde ...

and at the

University of Zürich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

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Kurt von Fischer Kurt von Fischer (25 April 1913 – 27 November 2003) was a Swiss musicologist and classical pianist. Life Fischer wurde was born on 25 April 1913 in Bern as the son of the mycologist Eduard Fischer. Fischer studied piano at the University of th ...

. In 1973 he was honored in Bonn with a thesis on

instrumentation Instrumentation a collective term for measuring instruments that are used for indicating, measuring and recording physical quantities. The term has its origins in the art and science of scientific instrument-making. Instrumentation can refer to ...

with

Arnold Schönberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...

which gained him his "Ph.D.". Since 1974 he has been working as the editor of the Hindemith Complete Edition at the in Frankfurt, which he directed from 1991 to 2011. Since 2005 he has been co-editor of the Hindemith Complete Edition. From 1985 to 1996 he was co-editor of the journal ''Musiktheorie''. He is co-editor of the

Kurt Weill Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fru ...

complete edition and member of the editorial board of the

Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition The Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition (BMCE; Souborné vydání děl Bohuslava Martinů in Czech) aims to publish the complete works of Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959). The BMCE is a complete historical critical edition of all the ...

. Until 2010 he was chairman of the Society for the Promotion of the

Arnold Schönberg complete edition The ''Arnold Schönberg Complete Edition'' (German: ''Arnold Schönberg Gesamtausgabe'') is a historical-critical edition of the complete compositional works of Arnold Schoenberg, which is intended to serve both scholarship and musical practice. Th ...

. Since 1986 he has been a freelance contributor to the magazine '. Schubert is honorary professor at the

Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (german: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, italic=no, link=no, HfMDK) is a state Hochschule for music, theatre and dance in Frankfurt and is the only one of its k ...

. He publishes mainly on music of the 19th and 20th centuries, on

music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (ke ...

and on

Aesthetics of music Aesthetics of music () is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty and taste in music, and with the creation or appreciation of beauty in music. In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics expl ...

Publications

* ''Studien zur Instrumentation beim frühen Schönberg.'' Dissertation. Bonn University 1973. Published under the title ''Schönbergs frühe Instrumentation.'' Koerner, Baden-Baden 1975, . * ''Paul Hindemith. In Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten.'' Dargestellt von Giselher Schubert. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1981, . 2nd edition 1986. 3rd edition 1990. 4th edition 1995. 5th edition 1999.
French: ''Paul Hindemith''

Actes Sud Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members. ...

Arles Arles (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Arle ; Classical la, Arelate) is a coastal city and commune in the South of France, a subprefecture in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in the former province of ...

1997, . * with

Andres Briner Andres Briner (31 May 1923 – 1 June 2014) was a Swiss music historian, academic and art journalist Life Briner was born in Zürich and educated at the University of Zurich. In musicology he was a student of Paul Hindemith. In 1953 he received ...

Dieter Rexroth Dieter Rexroth (born 6 March 1941) is a German musicologist and dramaturge. Life and achievements Born in Dresden, Rexroth studied musical composition, composition, conducting, musicology, German studies and philosophy at the universities of Col ...

: ''Paul Hindemith. Leben und Werk in Bild und Text.'' Schott, Mainz 1988, .
Italienisch: ''Paul Hindemith. Vita e opere.'' DeFerrari, Genua 1995, . * with Constantin Floros, Christian Martin Schmidt: ''Johannes Brahms – die Sinfonien. Einführung, Kommentar, Analyse.'' Schott, Mainz 1998, . * ''Hindemith und Honegger, Konturen einer ungewöhnlichen Freundschaft.'' Amadeus, Winterthur um 2008, . Editorship: * ''Ludus tonalis (1942). Studies in counterpoint, tonal organisation and piano playing.'' Schott, Mainz und Universal-Edition, Wienna c. 1989. * Andres Briner: ''Musikalische Koexistenz.'' MWith a foreword by

Hermann Danuser Hermann Danuser (born 3 October 1946) is a Swiss-German musicologist. Life Born in Frauenfeld, Danuser studied piano, oboe, musicology, philosophy and German language and literature at the Musikhochschule and the University of Zurich from 1965; ...

. Schott, Mainz 1993, . * Paul Hindemith: ''Aufsätze, Vorträge, Reden.'' Atlantis, Zürich/Mainz 1994, . * ''Alte Musik im 20. Jahrhundert. Wandlungen und Formen ihrer Rezeption.'' Schott, Mainz etc. c. 1995, . * ''Biographische Konstellation und künstlerisches Handeln.'' Schott, Mainz u. a. 1997, . * ''Französische und deutsche Musik im 20. Jahrhundert.'' Schott, Mainz u. a. 2001, . * mit

Wolfgang Rathert Wolfgang Rathert (born 17 July 1960) is a German musicologist born in Minden. Life and career Born in Minden, Rathert passed the C-examination as church musician during his school time and acquired the Abitur at the Herder-Gymnasium Minden. Aft ...

: ''Musikkultur in der Weimarer Republik.'' Schott, Mainz u. a. 2001, . * mit Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort,

Ludwig Finscher Ludwig Finscher (14 March 193030 June 2020) was a German musicologist. He was a professor of music history at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1995 and editor of the encyclopedia ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''. He is respecte ...

: ''Europäische Musikgeschichte.'' Bärenreiter, Kassel 2002, . Contributions: * ''Paul Hindemith: USA-Tagebuch 1938.'' In ''Schweizer Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft.'' Neue Folge. 8/9, 1988/1989, . * ''La concezione della musica nell’opera „Cardillac“.'' In Carlo Piccardi, Luigi Pestalozza: ''Paul Hindemith nella cultura tedesca degli anni venti.'' Unicopli, Mailand 1991, , . * ''Werkfassung und Werkidee. Kompositorische Probleme im Oeuvre Hindemiths.'' In ''Die Musikforschung.'' year 45, issue 1, 1992, . * ''„Ein bisschen daheim sein“. zu den Problemen der in die USA emigrierten Komponisten in den 30er und 40er Jahren.'' In Hermann Danuser (edit.): ''Amerikanische Musik seit Charles Ives.'' Laaber, Laaber 1993, , . * ''Form und Besetzung. Zu Frank Martins Konzerten.'' In:

Dietrich Kämper Dietrich Kämper (born 1936) is a German musicologist. Life Born in Melle, Germany, Melle, Niedersachsen, Kämper studied at the University of Cologne and University of Zurich with research stays in Bologna, Florence and Rome. He received his do ...

(edit.): ''Frank Martin. Das kompositorische Werk. 13 Studien.'' Schott, Mainz among others. 1993, , . * ''Themes and double themes. The problem of the symphonic in Brahms.'' In ''19th century music.'' Volume 18, No. 1, 1994/1995, . * ''Form als „Text“. Eine Skizze.'' In ''Musik als Text.'' Volume 1. 1998. . * ''„Amerikanismus“ und „Americanism“. Hindemith und die Neue Welt.'' In ''Hindemith-Jahrbuch.'' 27, 1998, . * ''Hindemiths Orchesterwerk.'' In Norbert Bolin (edit.): ''Paul Hindemith – Komponist zwischen Tradition und Avantgarde.'' Schott, Mainz among others 1999, , . * ''Zur Einschätzung und Deutung des musikalischen Fortschrittsdenkens in der Musikkultur der Weimarer Republik.'' In Giselher Schubert, Wolfgang Rathert (edit.): ''Musikkultur in der Weimarer Republik.'' Schott, Mainz among others. 2001, , . * ''Der lange Blick zurück. Hindemiths Operneinakter „Das lange Weihnachtsmahl“.'' In

Christoph-Hellmut Mahling Christoph-Hellmut Mahling (25 May 1932 – 13 February 2012) was a German musicologist and lecturer at various universities. Life and career Born in Berlin, Mahling studied musicology by Walter Gerstenberg, Georg Reichert, Joseph Müller-Blat ...

, Kristina Pfarr (edit.): ''Musiktheater im Spannungsfeld zwischen Tradition und Experiment (from 1960 until 1980).'' 2002, . * ''Bekehrung, Verrat, Entwicklung? Strawinskys Wendung zur Zwölftonmusik.'' In ''Europäische Musikgeschichte.''

Bärenreiter Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it also ...

, Kassel 2002, , . * ''„Der Lindberghflug“ von Weill, Hindemith und Brecht. Konzeption und Funktion.'' In Hermann Danuser (edit.): ''Amerikanismus - Americanism - Weill.'' Argus, Schliengen 2003, , . * ''Ein Streichquartett nach Beethoven. Zum unvollendeten Streichquartett von Ernest Chausson.'' In ''

Archiv für Musikwissenschaft The ''Archiv für Musikwissenschaft'' is a quarterly German-English-speaking trade magazine devoted to music history and historical musicology, which publishes articles by well-known academics and young scholars. It was founded in 1918 as the su ...

''. Year 69, issue 2, 2012, .

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