Axel Beer (born 17 February 1956) 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 ...

. He has been teaching at the

Johannes Gutenberg University 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 ...

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 Auxiliary (or ancillary) sciences of history are scholarly disciplines which help evaluate and use historical sources and are seen as auxiliary for historical research. Many of these areas of study, classification and analysis were originally deve ...

at the

Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

(class 1987).

Publications

* ''Die Annahme des "stile nuovo" in der katholischen Kirchenmusik Süddeutschlands'', Tutzing, Schneider, 1989, 378 pages * '' Heinrich Joseph Wassermann (1791-1838). Lebensweg und Schaffen. Ein Blick in das Musikleben des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts'', Hamburg-Eisenach, Wagner, 1991, 256 pages * (edited with Laurenz Lütteken) ''Festschrift

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 ...

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'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 Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen (born 21 August 1952) has been holding the chair for musicology at the University of Zurich since 1999. Career Born in Westerland on Sylt, Hinrichsen studied Germanistic and History at the Free University of Berlin. The ...

, Klaus Pietschmann (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 also ...

-Verlag, Kassel 2011, , .

References

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