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Klaus Hortschansky
Klaus Hortschansky (7 May 1935 – 16 May 2016) was a German musicologist. Life and work Born in Weimar, Hortschansky studied musicology from 1953 to 1966 in Weimar, Berlin and Kiel. In 1965 he became an assistant at the Musicological Institute in Kiel, where he received his doctorate in 1966 from Anna Amalie Abert with a thesis on the topic ''Parody and Borrowing in the Work of Christoph Willibald Gluck''. From 1968 he worked as an assistant at the Musicological Institute in Frankfurt am Main before being appointed director of the Musicological Seminar at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster in 1984. Hortschansky's main areas of research were the music of the Franco-Flemish School and operas of the 18th century. From 1992 to 1997 he was president of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, furthermore he was editor of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe, vice president of the Haydn-Institut in Cologne and co-editor of the Gluck-Gesamtausgabe. Hortschansky retired at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 music research is scientific in focus (psychological, sociological, acoustical, neurological, computational). Some geographers and anthropologists have an interest in musicology so the social sciences also have an academic interest. A scholar who participates in musical research is a musicologist. Musicology traditionally is divided in three main branches: historical musicology, systematic musicology and ethnomusicology. Historical musicologists mostly study the history of the western classical music tradition, though the study of music history need not be limited to that. Ethnomusicologists draw from anthropology (particularly field research) to understand how and why people make music. Systematic musicology includes music theory, aesthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schlesien
Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split into two main subregions, Lower Silesia in the west and Upper Silesia in the east. Silesia has a diverse culture, including architecture, costumes, cuisine, traditions, and the Silesian language (minority in Upper Silesia). Silesia is along the Oder River, with the Sudeten Mountains extending across the southern border. The region contains many historical landmarks and UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It is also rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. The largest city and Lower Silesia's capital is Wrocław; the historic capital of Upper Silesia is Opole. The biggest metropolitan area is the Upper Silesian metropolitan area, the centre of which is Katowice. Parts of the Czech city of Ostrava an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
