Jürg Thomas Stenzl (born 23 August 1942) is 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 ...

, and University professor.

Life

Born in

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

, Stenzl began his musical education in 1949, first took flute and violin lessons. From 1961 he studied

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with Walter Huwyler and from 1963 to 1968 musicology, German literature and philosophy at the

University of Bern The University of Bern (german: Universität Bern, french: Université de Berne, la, Universitas Bernensis) is a university in the Switzerland, Swiss capital of Bern and was founded in 1834. It is regulated and financed by the Canton of Bern. It ...

(with Arnold Geering and Lucie Dikenmann-Balmer) as well as in 1965 at the

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, where he listened to

Jacques Chailley Jacques Chailley (24 March 1910 – 21 January 1999) was a French musicologist and composer. Alain Lompech, "Jacques Chailley, musicologue-praticien et infatigable chercheur", ''Consociatio internationalis musicæ sacræ, Musicæ sacræ ministeriu ...

. With his dissertation ''The Forty Clausulae of the Manuscript Paris,

Bibliothèque nationale A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vir ...

latin 15139 (

Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris The Abbey of Saint Victor, Paris, also known as Royal Abbey and School of Saint Victor, was an abbey near Paris, France. Its origins are connected to the decision of William of Champeaux, the Archdeacon of Paris, to retire to a small hermitage near ...

– Clausulae)'', a work on 13th century music, he was awarded a doctorate in 1968 at the University of Bern. In 1970 the work appeared as a publication of the . From 1969 to 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 1974 as assistant to Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and from 1980 to 1991 as titular professor, he taught musicology at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

. Afterwards he was a representative and

visiting scholar In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic for which the visitor ...

, so from 1988 to 1990 for

Carl Dahlhaus Carl Dahlhaus (10 June 1928 – 13 March 1989) was a German musicologist who was among the leading postwar musicologists of the mid to late 20th-century. A prolific scholar, he had broad interests though his research focused on 19th- and 20th ...

Jürg Stenzl – Lebenslauf
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, 1990 in Cremona/Italien (1990) and 1991/92 and 1996 at the University of Bern. 1992/93 Stenzl was artistic director of the

Universal Edition Universal Edition (UE) is a classical music publishing firm. Founded in 1901 in Vienna, they originally intended to provide the core classical works and educational works to the Austrian market (which had until then been dominated by Leipzig-bas ...

in Vienna. In 1993 he habilitated a second time at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

, this time on Italian music from 1922 to 1952. Stenzl was visiting professor at the

University of Music and Performing Arts Graz The University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, also known as Kunstuniversität Graz (KUG) is an Austrian university. Its roots can be traced back to the music school of the '' Akademischer Musikverein'' founded in 1816, making it the oldest u ...

from 1994 to 1996 and in 2003 visiting professor at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1996 he succeeded

Gerhard Croll Gerhard Croll (25 May 1927 – 26 October 2019) was a German-Austrian musicologist. Life Born in Düsseldorf, Croll studied Kapellmeister at the Robert Schumann Hochschule and musicology with Rudolf Gerber at the University of Münster. He r ...

ordinary university professor for historical musicology and head of the department of art, music and dance studies at the University of Salzburg. Together with Claudia Jeschke, he expanded the institute in 2004. The Salzburg activities ended with his retirement in 2010 He is also active as an author and music critic ('' Neue Zürcher Zeitung'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and since 1992 for the ''

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''). From 1975 to 1983 he was editor of the ''

Schweizer Musikzeitung The ''Schweizer Musikzeitung'' (SMZ) is a monthly (9 times a year) music magazine from Brunnen. It is published in German, French and sporadically in Italian and reaches a circulation of 19,484 copies and a reach of 24,000 readers.https://www.m ...

'' and from 1983 to 1992 co-editor of ''Contrechamps'' and ''Musica/Realtà''. He is considered a patron of

new music New music may refer to: Musical styles and movements Pre-20th century * Ars nova, musical style in 14th-century France and the Low Countries * '' Le nuove musiche'', collection of monody by Giulio Caccini * New German School, music style in late 1 ...

, so he was congress organizer in Boswil from 1982 to 1988 and from 1985 on director of the concert series (Festival Belluard Bollwerk International (1985 to 1990) and Musiques du treizième Siècle (in the Kunsthalle of the ,Jürg Stenzl – Public Relations
www.uni-salzburg.at, accessed on 4 April 2020 1990 to 1994) in Freiburg in the Üechtland. Stenzl has been a member of the board of trustees of the in Freiburg im Breisgau since 1992, of which he is vice president. In 1994 he was programme consultant of the

Donaueschinger Musiktage The Donaueschingen Festival (german: Donaueschinger Musiktage, links=no) is a festival for new music that takes place every October in the small town of Donaueschingen in south-western Germany. Founded in 1921, it is considered the oldest festiv ...

. From 2003 to 2005 he was chairman of the Salzburg State Cultural Advisory Board, of which he has been a member since 1998. In 2006 he conceived the counterpoint concerts at the

Salzburg Easter Festival The Salzburg Easter Festival (German: ''Osterfestspiele Salzburg'') is an annual festival of opera and classical music held in Salzburg, Austria during Easter week. For most of the festival's history, the resident orchestra of the Easter Festival ...

. He also worked as a production dramaturge. Stenzl is a former member of the Central Institute for Mozart Research of the

International Mozarteum Foundation The International Mozarteum Foundation (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum) was founded in 1880 in Salzburg with its primary concern being the life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Closely affiliated with the Mozarteum University Salzburg, it w ...

in Salzburg. He has published mainly books and essays on the European

history of music Although definitions of music vary wildly throughout the world, every known culture partakes in it, and it is thus considered a cultural universal. The origins of music remain highly contentious; commentators often relate it to the origin of ...

from

medieval music Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and followed by the Renaissance ...

to the present, including

Arcangelo Corelli Arcangelo Corelli (, also , , ; 17 February 1653 – 8 January 1713) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of sonata and concerto, in establishing the preeminence of ...

Georg Friedrich Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training i ...

and

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( , ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

. A special research focus is

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 ...

: Since 1971 a Luigi Nono archive has been established, which is on loan from the Institute of Musicology at the University of Salzburg. He has written articles in the ', in ''

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theo ...

'' and in ''

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik (MGG)'' is one of the world's most comprehensive encyclopedias of music history and musicology, on account of its scope, content, wealth of research areas, and reference t ...

''. Stenzl has been married to

Nike Wagner Nike Wagner () (born 9 June 1945) is a German dramaturge, arts administrator and author. She directed the festival , and has been the director of the Beethovenfest from 2014. The daughter of Wieland Wagner, she is a great-granddaughter of Richar ...

, a great-granddaughter of

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

, since 1991 and lives mainly in Vienna since his retirement.

Awards

* 1986: Liszt Memorial Plaque of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education in recognition of the contributions to the research of the music of

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

and

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as H ...

.Jürg Stenzl – Preise
www.uni-salzburg.at, retrieved on 4 April 2020.

Publications

; Author * ''Die Vierzig Clausulae der Handschrift Paris, Bibliothèque nationale latin 15139: Saint-Victor Clausulae.'' Dissertation. Haupt, Bern/ Stuttgart 1970. * ''Von

Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long li ...

zu Luigi Nono. Italienische Musik 1922–1952. Faschismus – Resistenza – Republik''. Knuf, Buren 1990, . * ''Luigi Nono.'' Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1998, . * with A. T. Schaefer: ''Die Jahre der Oper 1996 bis 2001 – die Oper des Jahres 1998, 1999, 2000.'' Ed.

Staatsoper Stuttgart The Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Opera) is a German opera company based in Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Staatsorchester Stuttgart serves as its resident orchestra. History Performances of operas, ballet an ...

. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 2001, . * ''Der Klang des Song of Songs – Vertonungen des "Canticum canticorum" vom 9. bis zum Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts.'' Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, . * ''Jean-Luc Godard – musicien. Die Musik in den Filmen von Jean-Luc Godard'', text + Kritik, Munich 2010. * ''Das Virgil-Offizium Pangens chorus dulce Melos'', in Irene Holzer: ''Die zwei Salzburger Rupertus-Offizien Eia laude condigna und Hodie posito corpora'', volume 6 of the series ''Salzburger Stier'', Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012. * ''Auf der Suche nach Geschichte(n) der musikalischen Interpretation'', volume 7 of the series ''Salzburger Stier'', Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012. * ''Musik für über 1500 Stummfilme. Musique pour plus de 1500 films muets. Music for more than 1500 silent films. Das Inventar der Filmmusik im Pariser Gaumont-Palace (1911–1928) von Paul Fosse.'' (''Filmwissenschaft.'' Band 18). Lit-Verlag, Münster 2017, . ; Editor * '' Carla Henius und Luigi Nono. Briefe, Tagebücher, Notizen.'' Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1995, . * ''Orchester Kultur. Variationen über ein halbes Jahrhundert. Aus Anlass des 50. Geburtstages des SWF-Sinfonieorchesters.'' Metzler, Stuttgart/ Weimar 1996, . * ''

Alessandro Besozzi Alessandro Besozzi (born 22 July 1702 in Parma – died 26 July 1793 in Turin) was an Italian composer and virtuoso oboist.From a letter dated 30 July 1777 written by Quirino Gasparini, maestro di cappella of the cathedral of Turin, sent to Fath ...

. Sechs Trios für Oboe oder Violine, Violine und Violoncello oder Fagott'', Amadeus-Verlag, Winterthur 1997 * ''

Ernst Krenek Ernst Heinrich Krenek (, 23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer of Czech origin. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including ''Music Here and Now'' (1939), a study ...

Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright, and teacher best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expres ...

und die Geschichte von Orpheus und Eurydike.'' (''Ernst-Krenek-Studien.'' Band 1). Edition Argus, Schliengen 2005, . * with Ernst Hintermaier und Gerhard Walterskirchen: ''Salzburger Musikgeschichte. Von Mittelalter bis ins 21. Jahrhundert.'' Pustet, Salzburg 2005, . * with Lars E. Laubhold: ''

Herbert von Karajan Herbert von Karajan (; born Heribert Ritter von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, wit ...

1908–1989. Der Dirigent im Lichte einer Geschichte der musikalischen Interpretation.'' Pustet, Salzburg 2008, .

Literature

* * Christian Fastl
Stenzl, Jürg
In ''

Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon The ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon'Oesterreichisch'' with ''Oe'' is the spelling of the print and online output. is a five-volume music encyclopedia founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Commission for Music Research. It was officiall ...

''. Online-edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ; Print edition: Volume 5, publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, . *

Ulrich Mosch Ulrich Mosch (born 1955) is a German musicologist. Career Born in Stuttgart, Mosch first studied school music at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover as well as German Studies and musicology at the University of Hannover and ...

(ed.): Annäherungen. Festschrift für Jürg Stenzl zum 65. Geburtstag. Pfau, Saarbrücken 2007, . * Stenzl, Jürg. In

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 ...

(ed.): ''

''. Second edition, Personal part, volume 15 (Schoof – Stranz). Bärenreiter/Metzler, Kassel among others 2006,
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References

External links

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