Matthias Herrmann (born 14 October 1955) is a German musicologist and university professor.

Life

Born in

Mildenau Mildenau is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany. History From 1952 to 1990, Mildenau was part of the Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt of East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; ge ...

, Herrmann became a member of the

Dresdner Kreuzchor The Dresdner Kreuzchor is the boys' choir of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, Germany. It has a seven-century history and a world-wide reputation. Today, the choir has about 150 members between the ages of 9 and 19, from Dresden and the surroundin ...

conducted by

Kreuzkantor The Dresden Kreuzkirche (Church of the Holy Cross) is a Lutheran church in Dresden, Germany. It is the main church and seat of the '' Landesbischof'' of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony, and the largest church building in the Free State o ...

Rudolf Mauersberger Rudolf Mauersberger (29 January 1889 – 22 February 1971) was a German choral conductor and composer. His younger brother Erhard was also a conductor and composer. Career After positions in Aachen and Eisenach, he became director of the ren ...

, later

Martin Flämig Martin Flämig (19 August 1913, in Aue – 13 January 1998, in Dresden) was a German church musician, and the cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor from 1971 to 1991. Biography Martin Flämig studied since 1934 in Dresden with Alfred Stier and in Le ...

. He then studied

musicology 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 ...

at the University of Leipzig and later became a staff member of the music department of the Saxon State Library in Dresden as well as of the cultural editorial staff of the '. He wrote his doctorate about the court-music of the House of Wettin in Dresden around 1500 and was

habilitated 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 ...

on compositional work, especially the early work of Rudolf Mauersberger. He worked as a scientific assistant and senior assistant at the in Dresden and was appointed to a professorship for music history at the Institute for Musicology of the

Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden ' (, 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 ...

in 1993. He has published the series ''Sächsische Studien zur älteren Musikgeschichte'' at the

Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad (born 27 November 1962) is a German musicologist, publisher, music producer and editor. Life Born in Schmölln, Kamprad grew up near the Thuringian town Altenburg. From 1985 to 1990 he studied musicology at the Leipzig Uni ...

publishing house in Altenburg, and the ''Dresdner Schriften zur Musik'' and the ''Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchores'' at the Tectum publishing house in Marburg and Baden-Baden. Herrmann is a member of the editorial board of the ' and a board member of the , where he served as chairman until 2016). He was spokesman of the association "Heinrich Schütz in Dresden", and a longstanding member of the cultural advisory board of the state capital Dresden.

Publications

* ''Rudolf Mauersberger (1889–1971). Werkverzeichnis (RMWV)'', Dresden 1976, 2., completely revised edition, Dresden / Stuttgart 1991 (Studien und Materialien zur Musikgeschichte Dresdens 3) * ''Rudolf Mauersberger (1889–1971). Protokoll der Wissenschaftlichen Konferenz anläßlich des 100. Geburtstages des Kreuzkantors''. (edited with

Hans John Hans John (31 August 1911 – 23 April 1945) was a German lawyer and World War II resistance figure. Hans John was born in Ziegenhain, Hesse, and studied law at the University of Berlin. In 1939, he was hired as a legal assistant at the Aviatio ...

), ' 1990, Heft 2 (Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte 22) * ''Die Dresdner Kirchenmusik im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert''. (editor), Laaber 1998 (Musik in Dresden 3), . * ''Dresden und die avancierte Musik im 20. Jahrhundert. Part I: 1900–1933'' (edited with Hanns-Werner Heister), Laaber 1999 (Musik in Dresden 4) * '' Arnold Schönberg in Dresden'', Dresden 2001 * ''

Wolfram Steude Wolfram Steude (20 September 1931 – 9 March 2006) was a German musicologist and musician. Life Born in Plauen, Steude is the grandson of the Dresden architect . He graduated from the Dresden Kreuzschule and was a Crucian under Rudolf Mauersberg ...

, Annäherung durch Distanz. Texte zur älteren mitteldeutschen Musik und Musikgeschichte'' (editor), Altenburg Kamprad 2001 * ''

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...

. Essays zu Leben und Werk.'' (edited with

Michael Heinemann Michael Heinemann (born 5 March 1959) is a German musicologist and university professor. Career Born in Bergisch Gladbach, Heinemann passed his Abitur at the Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium Bergisch Gladbach in 1977. From 1978 to 1985 he studied Cath ...

und Stefan Weiss), Laaber 2002. * ''Dresden und die avancierte Musik im 20. Jahrhundert. Part II: 1933–1966'' (edited with Hanns-Werner Heister), Laaber 2002 (Musik in Dresden 5) * ''Dresden und die avancierte Musik im 20. Jahrhundert. Part III: 1966–1999'' (edited with Stefan Weiss), Laaber 2004 (Musik in Dresden 6) * ''Kreuzkantor zu Dresden. Rudolf Mauersberger'', vol. 1 der Schriften des Mauersberger-Museums,

Mauersberg Mauersberg is a district of the Großrückerswalde municipality in the Erzgebirgskreis district of Saxony, Germany. Geography Location Mauersberg is located about southwest of Marienberg in the Ore Mountains. The village extends over about ...

2004 * ''Der Dresdner Kreuzchor. Geschichte, Wirkungsstätten, Schule.'' (edited with

Dieter Härtwig Dieter Härtwig (born 18 July 1934 in Dresden) is a German dramaturge, musicologist and author of numerous writings on Dresden's music history and its personalities. After gaining his Abitur from Kreuzschule, Härtwig studied musicology and Germa ...

), Leipzig 2006 * ''Märchenoper. Ein europäisches Phänomen''. (edited with Vitus Froesch), Dresden 2007 * ''Musik im mittelalterlichen Dresden. Vom Werden einer Musikstadt''. (editor), Altenburg Kamprad 2008 (Sächsische Studien zur älteren Musikgeschichte 1) * ''Die Musikpflege in der evangelischen Schlosskapelle zu Dresden zur

Schütz Schütz (also spelled ''Schuetz'' without Umlaut ü) is a German surname, deriving from ''Schütze'' (shooter/marksman). Notable people with the surname include: People * Alfred Schütz (1899–1959), sociologist and philosopher * Antal Schütz ...

-Zeit'' (editor), Altenburg Kamprad 2009 (Sächsische Studien zur älteren Musikgeschichte 3) * ''Erkundungen zu

Günter Raphael Günter Raphael (30 April 1903 – 19 October 1960) was a German composer. Born in Berlin, Raphael was the grandson of composer Albert Becker. His first symphony was premiered by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1926 in Leipzig. From 1926 to 1934 he tau ...

– Mensch und Komponist''''Erkundungen zu Günter Raphael – Mensch und Komponist''
on WorldCat (editor), Altenburg Kamprad 2010 *'' Johann Walter: Torgau und die evangelische Kirchenmusik''. With a foreword by Christian Thielemann (editor), Altenburg 2013 (Sächsische Studien zur älteren Musikgeschichte, vol. 4) * Rudolf Mauersberger: ''Aus der Werkstatt eines Kreuzkantors. Briefe, Texte, Reden'' (editor), Marburg 2014 (Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchores, vol. 1) * Wolfram Steude: '' Heinrich Schütz – Mensch, Werk, Wirkung.'' With a foreword by Joshua Rifkin (editor), Marburg 2016 (Dresdner Schriften zur Musik, vol. 7) * ''

und zeitgenössische Chormusik. Ur- und Erstaufführungen zwischen Richter und Kreile'' (editor), Marburg 2017 (Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchores, vol. 2)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Herrmann, Matthias 20th-century German musicologists 1955 births Living people People from Erzgebirgskreis Writers from Saxony