Hansjörg Pauli (3 March 1931 in

Winterthur , neighboring_municipalities = Brütten, Dinhard, Elsau, Hettlingen, Illnau-Effretikon, Kyburg, Lindau, Neftenbach, Oberembrach, Pfungen, Rickenbach, Schlatt, Seuzach, Wiesendangen, Zell , twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austria), La ...

, Switzerland – 15 February 2007) was a Swiss

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 ...

, writer, and music critic. He was a pupil of

Hans Keller Hans (Heinrich) Keller (11 March 19196 November 1985) was an Austrian-born British musician and writer, who made significant contributions to musicology and music criticism, as well as being a commentator on such disparate fields as psychoana ...

. During the 1950s, Pauli was a jazz pianist and a music critic for Neues Winterthurer Tageblatt. From 1960 to 1965 Pauli worked at

Radio Zürich Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...

on new music broadcasts, and between 1965 and 1968 he was a music editor for NDR-Fernsehen where he directed TV documentaries and produced films by

Richard Leacock Richard Leacock (18 July 192123 March 2011)
The Telegraph (Lon ...

Rolf Liebermann Rolf Liebermann (14 September 1910 – 2 January 1999), was a Swiss composer and music administrator. He served as the Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera from 1959 to 1973 and again from 1985 to 1988. He was also Artistic Director of ...

Klaus Wildenhahn Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas. Notable persons whose family name is Klaus * Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American baseb ...

and others. Since 1968 he is a freelance writer. Pauli is a prominent authority on the music of

Luigi Nono Luigi Nono (; 29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music. Biography Early years Nono, born in Venice, was a member of a wealthy artistic family; his grandfather was a notable painter. Nono beg ...

Articles by Hansjörg Pauli

* 'On Strawinsky's ''Threni, ''Tempo, New Series'', No. 49 (Autumn, 1958), pp. 16–17+21-33 * 'Hans Werner Henze's Italian Music', ''The Score'', No.25, June 1959 * 'Für wen komponieren Sie eigentlich?' ''Reihe Fischer, vol. F 16''. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1971. * 'Bernard Herrmanns Musik zu Citizen Kane', Dissonance 26 (November 1990): 12–18.

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