Hansjürgen Schaefer (1930 – 1999) was a German

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

and

music critic '' The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of m ...

Life

Born in

Freiberg Freiberg () is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany, with around 41,000 inhabitants. The city lies in the foreland of the Ore Mountains, in the Saxon urbanization axis, which runs along the northern edge of the Elster and ...

, Schaefer studied music in Leipzig from 1952 to 1954 and musicology in Berlin from 1954 to 1957. From 1957 to 1960, he was editor of the ''

Berliner Zeitung The ''Berliner Zeitung'' (; ) is a daily newspaper based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in East Germany in 1945, it is the only East German paper to achieve national prominence since Reunification of Germany, reunification. It is published by Berl ...

''. From 1960 to 1973, he was editor-in-chief of the magazine ''

Musik und Gesellschaft ''Musik und Gesellschaft'' was a music magazine in the German Democratic Republic. It was published monthly from 1951 to 1990 in East Berlin by . History The journal was published from the first issue in March 1951 onwards by Ernst Hermann Mey ...

''. From 1973 to 1991, he was the

artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogu ...

of the

VEB Deutsche Schallplatten The VEB Deutsche Schallplatten was the monopolistic music publisher in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the 1950s until the 1980s. The VEB Deutsche Schallplatten owned Amiga from 1954 to 1990. History On August 12, 1946, the German s ...

Publications

* ''Musik in der sozialistischen Gesellschaft''. (1967) * ''Johann Sebastian Bach : 1685-1750''. (1984) * ''Orchestermusik''. (1987) * ''Johannes Brahms : ein Führer durch Leben und Werk''. (1997) * ''Joseph Haydn : Leben und Werk : ein Konzertbuch''.''Joseph Haydn : Leben und Werk : ein Konzertbuch''
on WorldCat (2000)

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schaefer, Hansjurgen Musicologists from Berlin 20th-century German musicologists German music critics 20th-century German journalists German male journalists German music journalists 1930 births 1999 deaths People from Freiberg Musik und Gesellschaft editors