Ludwig Holtmeier (born in 1964) is a German

music theorist 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 (k ...

and piano player.

Life

Holtmeier studied piano at 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 ...

and at the

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and Conservatoire de musique de Neuchâtel and passed the concert exam in 1992. In addition to piano he also studied music theory, musicology, school music, history and German studies in Freiburg and Berlin. In 2010 he collected his doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on the reception of Jean-Philippe Rameau's music theory writings. He taught as a music theorist at the

Hochschule für Musik Freiburg ' (, plural: ') is the generic term in German for institutions of higher education, corresponding to ''universities'' and ''colleges'' in English. The term ''Universität'' (plural: ''Universitäten'') is reserved for institutions with the right to ...

and as a musicologist at the

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in Berlin. From 2000 to 2003 he was professor of music theory at the

Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber The Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber (Carl Maria von Weber College of Music; also/formerly known as Dresden Conservatory or Dresden Royal Conservatory) is a university of music in Dresden, Germany. History The Hochschule opened ...

in Dresden, and since 2003 he has held a professorship at the Freiburg University of Music, where he also held the office of prorector from 2012 to 2017. Since 1 October 2017 he has been

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of the Freiburg University of Music. From 2007 to 2009 he was also a lecturer for historical composition at the

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, that focuses on early music and historically informed performance. Faculty at the school have organized performing ensembles that have ...

, Basel. Until 2017 Holtmeier was co-editor of the journal '. He was president of the Society for Music and Aesthetics as well as founding member and vice-president of the (2000–2004). As a song accompanist (piano forte) he recorded several CDs. His main learning interests include the history of music theory, analysis and the

First Viennese School The First Viennese School is a name mostly used to refer to three composers of the Classical period in Western art music in late-18th-century to early-19th-century Vienna: Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Sometimes, ...

Publications

* ''Nicht Kunst? Nicht Wissenschaft? Zur Lage der Musiktheorie''. In ''Musik & Ästhetik'' 1, 1997, . * with

Eckehard Kiem Eckehard Kiem (12 September 1950 in Berka vor dem Hainich – 29 December 2012) was a German music theorist, university professor and composer. In his major fields of study he concentrated - in addition to a practical and analytical examinatio ...

(ed.): ''Richard Wagner und seine Zeit''. Laaber, Laaber 2003 . * ''Arnold Schönbergs "Berliner Schule". * ''Heinichen, Rameau, and the Italian thoroughbass tradition: Concepts of tonality and chord in the rule of the octave''. In ''Journal of music theory'' 51, 2007, . * ''Implizite Theorie: Zum Akkordbegriff der italienischen Generalbass-Theorie''. In ''Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis'' 31, 2007, . * ''Funktionale Mehrdeutigkeit, Tonalität und arabische Stufen. Überlegungen zu einer Reform der harmonischen Analyse.'' In ''Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (ZGMTH).'' vol. 8, Nr. 3, 2011, ,
online)
* with Johannes Menke and Felix Diergarten: ''Solfeggi, Bassi e Fughe. Georg Friedrich Händels Übungen zur Satzlehre.'' Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 2013, . * ''Rameaus langer Schatten. Studien zur deutschen Musiktheorie des 18. Jahrhunderts''.''Rameaus langer Schatten. Studien zur deutschen Musiktheorie des 18. Jahrhunderts''
on WorldCat Dissertation TU Berlin 2010. Druckfassung: Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2017, .

References

External links

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Webseite an der Musikhochschule Freiburg
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