Wolfram Huschke (18 April 1946) is a German musicologist.

Life

Born in

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

, Huschke's ancestors were physicians who stood in the circle of

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as trea ...

and

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friends ...

and also treated them. One Huschke, namely , was ultimately involved in Schiller's autopsy section and wrote his autopsy report. Wolfram Huschke is the son of the archivist . Huschke was a school musician and has been a professor of music didactics at the

Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (in German: Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) is an institution of music in Weimar, Germany. The Hochschule Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding of ...

since 1993. Prior to this, in 1977 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 ...

in the field of musicology at the

Martin-Luther-University 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 ...

. From 1993 to 2001 he was rector of this university. From 1989 to 1997 he was director of the Institute for School Music. From 1991 to 1993 he was dean of this department. Since 2001 he was the director of the Franz Liszt Centre. Since 1990 Huschke has been vice president, and from 2000 president of the Franz Liszt Society in Weimar. From 1990 to 1993 he was president of the city council of Weimar. Huschke's main research focus is the music history of Weimar. He wrote, for example, about

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

. He was a major contributor to the Weimar. Lexikon zur Stadtgeschichte. In 2005 Huschke was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon. In 2012 he became honorary senator of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music Weimar. In 2014 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia.

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