Thomas F. Ertelt (born 5 April 1955) is a German musicologist. Until his retirement in August 2021 he had been Institut director of the State Institute for Music Research in Berlin.

Life

Born in

Weingarten Weingarten may refer to: Places * Weingarten, Württemberg, Germany ** Weingarten Abbey * Weingarten (Baden), Germany * Weingarten, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Weingarten, Thuringia, Germany * Weingarten, Switzerland * Weingarten, Missouri ...

, Ertelt 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 ...

and Germanistic at the Freie Universität Berlin (with

Rudolf Stephan Rudolf Stephan (3 April 1925 – 29 September 2019) was a German musicologist. Life Stephan was born in Bochum. After studying violin at the conservatory, he entered the Institute of Heidelberg, where he studied musicology at the University unde ...

). In 1989 he received his

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 ''l ...

with his work on A. Berg's opera '' Lulu''. In 1992, Ertelt went to the

Berlin Musical Instrument Museum The Berlin Musical Instrument Museum (german: Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin) is located at the Kulturforum on Tiergartenstraße in Berlin, Germany. The museum holds over 3,500 musical instruments from the 16th century onward and is one of the ...

of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Berlin (SIMPK) and has been working there in leading positions as successor of

Dagmar Droysen-Reber Dagmar Droysen-Reber (born 25 August 1928) is a German musicologist and museum director. Life Droysen-Reber was born in Barmen. After studying musicology, experimental physics and Romance studies and obtaining her doctorate as Dr. phil., she ini ...

since 1994. Ertelt's research focuses primarily on the music of the

Second Viennese School The Second Viennese School (german: Zweite Wiener Schule, Neue Wiener Schule) was the group of composers that comprised Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils, particularly Alban Berg and Anton Webern, and close associates in early 20th-century Vienna. ...

and the history of

music theory 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 (ke ...

. He is publisher of the ''Geschichte der Musiktheorie'', correspondence of members of the Viennese School, and the series ''Klang und Begriff''.

Publications

* ''Klang und Begriff. Perspektiven musikalischer Theorie und Praxis.''''Klang und Begriff. Perspektiven musikalischer Theorie und Praxis''
on

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Ed. on behalf of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, by Thomas Ertelt and

Conny Restle Conny Restle (born 18 November 1960) is a German musicologist, Museum director and lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts. Life Born in Munich, Restle took her Abitur at the humanistic Wilhelmsgymnasium (Munich) in 1980. From 1980 to 1985 ...

, vol. 2, ''Beethovens Klaviervariationen op. 34'', Berlin 2007

External links

*
Thomas Ertelt
of the site of the State Institute for Music Research

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ertelt, Thomas 1955 births Living people People from Weingarten, Württemberg 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists