Axel Beer (born 17 February 1956) is a German musicologist. He has been teaching at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 1995. Born in

Fulda Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a town in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (''Kreis''). In 1990, the town hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival. History ...

, Beer 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 ...

, Latin philology and auxiliary sciences of history at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (class 1987).

Publications

* ''Die Annahme des "stile nuovo" in der katholischen Kirchenmusik Süddeutschlands'', Tutzing, Schneider, 1989, 378 pages * ''

Heinrich Joseph Wassermann Heinrich Joseph Wassermann (3 April 1791 – 3 September 1838) was a German-Swiss violinist, composer and conductor. Life and career Wassermann was born in Schwarzbach near Fulda, the son of the village musician Johann Wassermann (1757-1815). A ...

(1791-1838). Lebensweg und Schaffen. Ein Blick in das Musikleben des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts'', Hamburg-Eisenach, Wagner, 1991, 256 pages * (edited with

Laurenz Lütteken Laurenz Lütteken (born 9 September 1964 in Essen) is a German musicologist. Since 2001, he has been Ordinarius for musicology at the University of Zürich.Klaus Hortschansky zum 60. Geburtstag'', Tutzing, Schneider 1995 * ''Musik zwischen Komponist, Verlag und Publikum. Die Rahmenbedingungen des Musikschaffens in Deutschland im ersten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts'', Tutzing, Schneider, 2000, 561 pages * ''

Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (3 December 1750 in Würzburg – 12 October 1817 in Würzburg) was a German composer and pianist in the 18th and early 19th centuries. He was educated at the University of Würzburg and in 1778 he became chaplain and ...

's Briefwechsel mit seinen Verlegern'', Mainz, Schott, 2001, 138 pages; together with Dagmar Schnell * ''"Empfehlenswerthe Musikalien". Besprechungen musikalischer Neuerscheinungen außerhalb der Fachpresse (Deutschland, 1. Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts). Eine Bibliographie'', "Empfehlenswerthe Musikalien" : Besprechungen musikalischer Neuerscheinungen ausserhalb der Fachpresse (Deutschland, 1. Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts) : eine Bibliographie
on Stanford Library first part, Göttingen-London, Hainholz, 2000, 353 pages; Second part ebd. 2001, 353 pages * "Die Oper daheim. Variationen als Rezeptionsform; Verzeichnis der Variationswerke über Themen aus Weigls ''Schweizer Familie''". In Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen,

Klaus Pietschmann Klaus Pietschmann (born in 1972) is a German musicologist. Since 2009 he has been teaching at the University of Mainz. Career Born in Cologne, Pietschmann studied musicology and Medieval studies at the University of Cologne, at the University of ...

(editors): ''Jenseits der Bühne. Bearbeitungs- und Rezeptionsformen der Oper im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert'' (''Schweizer Beiträge zur Musikforschung''; vol. 15).

Bärenreiter Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it al ...

-Verlag, Kassel 2011, , .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beer, Axel 1956 births Living people People from Fulda Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz faculty 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists