Wolfgang Suppan (5 August 1933 – 4 May 2015) was an Austrian

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 ...

. He is the father of the wind musician and composer

Armin Suppan Armin Suppan (born 16 October 1959) is an Austrian brass musician and composer. Life Born in Graz, son of the musicologist Wolfgang Suppan, Suppan studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz as well as at the Hochschule ...

Career

Born in

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, Suppan studied music at the and musicology (

Hellmut Federhofer Hellmut Federhofer (August 6, 1911 – May 1, 2014) was an Austrian musicologist. Born in Graz, he studied music there and in Vienna at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, graduating in 1936. In 1937, he became a librarian at the l ...

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with (, ) and philosophy (Amadeo Silva-Tarouca) at the

University of Graz The University of Graz (german: link=no, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, ), located in Graz, Austria, is the largest and oldest university in Styria, as well as the second-largest and second-oldest university in Austria. History The unive ...

. In 1959, he was awarded a Dr. phil. In 1961, he went to

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as a scholarship holder of the

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, first to the Institute for East German Folklore, and since 1963 to the

Deutsches Volksliedarchiv The Deutsche Volksliedarchiv, a research institute for Volkslied (folk song) in German, was founded in 1914 and was integrated into the University of Freiburg in 2014, now called Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik (Centre of popular culture ...

as a musicological consultant. In 1971, he received his

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for musicology at the

University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stu ...

. In 1974, he accepted a call to the Institute for Music Ethnology at the

University of Music and Performing Arts Graz The University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, also known as Kunstuniversität Graz (KUG) is an Austrian university. Its roots can be traced back to the music school of the '' Akademischer Musikverein'' founded in 1816, making it the oldest u ...

. Assistant professorships took him to the

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in 1991/92, to Innsbruck in 1992/93 and to Salzburg in 1991/92 and 1996/97. He has also held lectureships and guest professorships at the Institute for Music Pedagogy at the University of Frankfurt, at the

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, the

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, the

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, among others, and the

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic i ...

. He retired in 2001.

Boards

Suppan co-founded and directed a number of international societies: in 1955 the

Johann Joseph Fux Johann Joseph Fux (; – 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theory, music theorist and pedagogy, pedagogue of the late Baroque music, Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoin ...

Society (1995 to 2001 President), in 1967 the Study Group for the Research of Historical Folk Music Sources in the ICTM (co-chair until 1988), in 1965 the International Society for (since then advisory board), 1974 the (President until 2000), in 1981 the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (President from 1995 to 1997). He was a member of the Presidium of the

Deutscher Musikrat The Deutscher Musikrat (DMR, ''German Music Council''; ) is an umbrella organization for music associations and the 16 music councils of the German federal states.musikrat.deÜberblick über Organisationsstruktur des DMR(retrieved on 10 May 2019) ...

from 1973 to 1978 and of the ISME Research Commission from 1975 to 1981. His main areas of work included the

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

of music, European

ethnomusicology Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dim ...

, brass music research and the history of music in Austria. From 1996 to 2006, he was also the head of the Styrian Brass Music Association. Suppan died in Graz at the age of 79.

Awards

* 1978: Großes Ehrenzeichen des Landes Steiermark * 1984: Forschungspreis des Landes Steiermark * 1994: Bundesverdienstkreuz I. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland * 1994:

Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria The Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (german: Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich) is a state decoration of the Republic of Austria. It is divided into 15 classes and is the highest award in the A ...

* Honorary citizen of

Pürgg-Trautenfels Pürgg-Trautenfels is a former municipality in the district of Liezen in Styria, Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Stainach-Pürgg. Geography Pürgg-Trautenfels lies in valley of the up ...

''Die Kunstuniversität Graz trauert um Wolfgang Suppan''
Retrieved on 9 October 2020.

Publications

Books

* ''Steirisches Musiklexikon.'' Graz 1962–1966. * ''Volkslied. Seine Sammlung und Erforschung.'' Stg. 1966 * ''Otto Siegl. Eine Studie.'' Vienna 1966. * ''Deutsches Liedleben zwischen Renaissance und Barock.'' Habilitationsschrift Mainz 1971, gedruckt Tutzing 1973. * ''Das neue Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens'' (mit Armin Suppan). Schulz, Freiburg 1973. . * ''Jenö Takács. Dokumente, Analysen, Kommentare.'' Eisenstadt 1977. * ''Der musizierende Mensch. Eine Anthropologie der Musik.'' Schott, Mainz 1983, . * ''Blasmusik in Baden.'' Musikverlag Schulz, Freiburg 1983, . * ''Musica humana. Die anthropologische und kulturethologische Dimension der Musikwissenschaft.'' Vienna among others. 1986, . * ''Komponieren für Amateure.'' Tutzing 1987, . * ''Texte und Melodien der "Erlauer Spiele".'' Tutzing 1990 (with J. Janota). * ''Werk und Wirkung. Musikwissenschaft als Menschen- und Kulturgüterforschung.'' 3 volumes, Tutzing 2000. * ''Blasmusikland Steiermark.'' Gnas/Steiermark 2003, . * ''Blasmusikforschung Bibliographie 1966–2003.'' Schneider, Tutzing 2003. * ''Steirisches Musiklexikon.'' 2nd, completely revised and extended edition;

Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt :''There also were unrelated publishing houses in Stuttgart and in (East-)Berlin, and there is the (JAVG).'' The Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA) is an Austrian book publisher in Graz that specialises primarily in publishing lavis ...

, Graz 2009, . * ''Blasmusik in der Steiermark. Musik klingt und berührt die Herzen.'' Ein Beitrag zur landeskundlichen Musikforschung, Weishaupt-Verlag, Gnas 2010, . * ''An der Wiege des Landes Steiermark. Die Chronik Pürgg-Trautenfels.'' Mit Beiträgen von Gottfried Allmer, Walter Brunner, Wilhelm Deuer, Josef Hasitschka, Ingo Mirsch, Hannes P. Naschenweng, Armin und Wolfgang Suppan. Weishaupt-Verlag, Gnas/Steiermark 2013, .

Editions

* ''Deutsche Volkslieder mit ihren Melodien. Balladen.'' Vol. 5 and 6, Freiburg im Breisgau 1967 and 1976 (with R. W. Brednich, W. Heiske). * ''Gottscheer Volkslieder.'' Gesamtausgabe, 3 volumes, Mainz 1969, 1972 and 1984 (with R. W. Brednich). * ''Die Ebermannstädter Liederhandschrift.'' Kulmbach 1972 (with R. W. Brednich). * ''Handbuch des Volksliedes.'' 2 volumes, München 1973 und 1975 (with R. W. Brednich and L. Röhrich). * ''Alta musica. Eine Publikation der Internationalen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Förderung der Blasmusik.'' 23 volumes, Tutzing 1976–2002 (with E. Brixel). * ''Melodietypen des deutschen Volksgesanges.'' Vol. 1, Tutzing 1976 (with W. Stief). * ''Liszt-Studien.'' VOl. 1, Kgr.Ber. Eisenstadt 1975, Graz 1977. * ''Musikethnologische Sammelbände.'' 19 volumes, Graz/Tutzing 1977–2004. * ''Goethe. Heidenröslein Vertonungen'' 2 volumes, Tokio 1987 (with H. Sakanishi). * ''Musica Pannonica.'' 4 volumes, Oberschützen – Budapest 1991–2000 (with Z. Falvy).Literatur für/über Wolfgang Suppan
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Notes

* J. J. Fux, Pulcheria, in J.-J.-Fux-Gesamtausgabe V/2, Kassel etc. 1967 (with H. Federhofer). * E. von Lannoy, Grand Trio für Klar., Vc. nd Kl., L. 1970. * I. Pleyel, 6 Duette für zwei Klar., Wolfenbüttel 1973. * W. A. Mozart, 6 Duos für zwei Klar., KV Anh. 159f., Freiburg im Breisgau 1982

Articles

* ''Die Lage der Volksmusikforschung in den deutschsprachigen Ländern.'' In ''AMl.'' Vol. 37, 1965, (with F. Hoerburger). * ''Zur Musik der „Erlauer Spiele“.'' In ''SM.'' Vol. 11, 1969, . * ''Bürgerliches und bäuerliches Musizieren in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit.'' In ''Musikgeschichte Österreichs.'' Vol.1, Graz among others 1977, . * ''Musikethnologische Forschungen auf den Färöer-Inseln.'' In ''AMl.'' Vol. 49, 1977, . * ''Franz Liszt – zwischen F. von Hausegger und E. Hanslick.'' In ''SM.'' vol. 24, 1982, . * ''Musikforschung in und für Japan.'' In ''AMl.'' Vol. 54, 1982, . * ''Biologische Voraussetzungen und Grenzen kultureller Traditionsbildung.'' In ''Traditiones.'' Band 19, Ljubljana 1990, . * ''Ansätze und Ideen zur Anthropologie der Musik.'' In ''Orbis Musicae.'' Vol. 10: ''Essays in Honor of Hanoch Avenary.'' Tel Aviv 1990/91, . * ''Die Pittsburgh Ouverture (1967) by K. Penderecki.'' In ''Contexts of Musicology.'' Vol. 1: Dedicated to Jan Stęszewski, Poznán 1997, . * ''Early Ideas in the Anthropology of Music.'' In ''Studies in Socio-Musicology Sciences. George Herzog in Memoriam.'' Ramat Gan (Tel-Aviv) 1998, . * ''La Antropología Musical: Informe sobre sus objetivos y trabajos de investigación.'' In ''AnM.'' Vol. 53, Barcelona 1998, . * ''Bläsermusik an den Zentren fürstlicher und städtischer Musikpflege in Renaissance und Barock im südwestdeutsch-alemannischen Raum.'' In ''Annales.'' Vol. 2, Tutzing 2001, . * ''Die Funktion der Musik im Leben der Bürger und Bauern Tirols im Mittelalter und in der beginnenden Neuzeit.'' In ''Musikgeschichte Tirols.'' Innsbruck 2001, . * ''Benjamin Rajeczky und die historische Volksmusikforschung.'' In ''SM.'' Vol. 42, 2001, . * ''Musik als Identifikator.'' In ''Musik als … Ausgewählte Betrachtungsweisen.'' Edited by R. Flotzinger, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Musikforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vol. 28, Vienna 2006, . * ''Johann Joseph Fux zu Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.'' In ''Jahresgabe der J.-J.-Fux-Gesellschaft.'' Vol. 17, Graz 1994

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Suppan, Wolfgang 20th-century Austrian musicologists Academics of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz University of Graz alumni Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1933 births 2015 deaths People from Styria