Sieghart Döhring (born 12 December 1939) is a German

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 m ...

and Opera researcher.

Career

Born in Biskupiec, East Prussia, Döhring studied musicology,

theology Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

and philosophy in Hamburg and Marburg/Lahn. In 1969 he gained a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

at the

University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the wor ...

. From 1983 to 2006 he was head of the Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater in at the

University of Bayreuth A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

. Döhring's research mainly concerns music theatre. Together with

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 ...

he published ' from 1986 to 1997. Döhring is married to the musicologist and opera researcher Sabine Henze-Döhring.

Publications

* ''Formgeschichte der Opernarie vom Ausgang des achtzehnten bis zur Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts''. Itzehoe: George 1975. * ''Giacomo Meyerbeer. Große Oper als Ideendrama''. Habilitationsschrift (mschr.)

Technische Universität Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

1987. * ''Oper und Musikdrama im 19. Jahrhundert''''Oper und Musikdrama im 19. Jahrhundert''
on WorldCat (together with Sabine Henze-Döhring). (Handbuch der musikalischen Gattungen, vol. 13) Laaber: Laaber-Verlag 1997.

''Festschriften'' in honour of Döhring

* ''Opernedition. Bericht über das Symposion

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zum 60. Geburtstag von Sieghart Döhring''. Edited by Helga Lühning and Reinhard Wiesend in cooperation with Peter Niedermüller and Katja Schmidt-Wistoff. Mainz: Are-Edition 2005 (Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft, Vol. 12). * ''Bühnenklänge: Festschrift für Sieghart Döhring zum 65. Geburtstag''. Edited by Thomas Betzwieser, Daniel Brandenburg, Rainer Franke, Arnold Jacobshagen, Marion Linhardt, Stephanie Schroedter and Thomas Steiert. Munich: Ricordi 2005.

References

External links

*
Sieghart Döhring – persönliche Homepage (mit Publikationsverzeichnis)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dohring, Sieghart 20th-century German musicologists 1939 births Living people People from Biskupiec