Wolfgang Auhagen (born in 1953) 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 mu ...
.
Life
Born in Hamburg, Auhagen studied musicology, art history and philosophy at the
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1973 until 1982. There he was awarded 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 the thesis and in 1992 with a thesis on the subject ''Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur auditiven Tonalitätsbestimmung in Melodien''
habilited. He teaches at the
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university i ...
. Since 2005 Auhagen has been a foreign member of the .
From 2006 to 2010 he was Vice Dean of the Philosophical Faculty II of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and from 2009 to 2017 the President of the
Gesellschaft für Musikforschung
The ''Gesellschaft für Musikforschung'' (GfM) is a professional association of musicologists and institutes active in study, research and teaching in Germany. It has over 1600 members. The association is based in Kassel, Hesse.
History
The soc ...
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Publications
* ''Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur auditiven Tonalitätsbestimmung in Melodien.'' / 1, Text. , vol. 180, Bosse-Verlag Regensburg, 1994
* ''Wahrnehmung, Erkenntnis, Vermittlung : musikwissenschaftliche Brückenschläge : Festschrift für Wolfgang Auhagen''.
* with Bram Gätjen and
Christoph Reuter
Christoph Reuter (born 28 November 1968) is a German University professor for systematic musicology at the University of Vienna.
life
Born in Duisburg, Reuter studied musicology at the University of Cologne, received his doctorate ''summa cum ...
(ed.): ''Musikalische Akustik''. (Kompendien Musik), Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2015
* ''Systematische Musikwissenschaft : Ziele, Methoden, Geschichte''.
''Systematische Musikwissenschaft : Ziele, Methoden, Geschichte''
on WorldCat
References
External links
*
Eintrag im Forschungsportal Sachsen-Anhalt
Profilseite der Universität Halle
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20th-century German musicologists
Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
1953 births
Living people
Writers from Hamburg