Dietrich Kämper (born 1936) is a German

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

Life

Born in Melle,

Niedersachsen Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

, Kämper studied at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

and

University of Zurich The University of Zurich (UZH, ) is a public university, public research university in Zurich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of the ...

with research stays in

Bologna Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...

Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence ...

and Rome. He received his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

in 1963 with a dissertation ''

Franz Wüllner Franz Wüllner (28 January 1832 – 7 September 1902) was a German composer and conductor. He led the premieres of Wagner's ''Das Rheingold'' and ''Die Walküre'', but was much criticized by Wagner himself, who greatly preferred the more celebrate ...

– Leben, Wirken und kompositorisches Schaffen'' at the University of Cologne, where he

habilitated Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellen ...

in musicology in 1967. Since 1986 he was the holder of the newly established chair for musicology at the

Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln The Cologne University of Music () is a public university of music and dance located in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Established in 1850 as the Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln, it is one of the largest music academies in Europe, w ...

. In 1995 he was finally appointed to the University of Cologne. His main areas of research were

Renaissance music Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines. Rather than starting from the early 14th-century ''ars nova'', the mus ...

, music of the 20th century and music history of the Rhineland.

Musicological author

* ''

'', Arno-Volk-Verlag, Cologne 1963 * ''Studien zur instrumentalen Ensemblemusik des 16. Jahrhunderts in Italien'',

Böhlau Verlag Böhlau Verlag is a book and magazine publisher predominantly of humanities and social science disciplines, based in Vienna (Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG) and Cologne (Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie.), with a branch in Weimar. They describe their focus ...

, Vienna / Cologne 1970 * ''Gefangenschaft und Freiheit – Leben und Werk des Komponisten

Luigi Dallapiccola Luigi Dallapiccola (3 February 1904 – 19 February 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions. Biography Dallapiccola was born in Pisino d'Istria (at the time part of Austria-Hungary, current Pazin, Croati ...

'', Gitarre-und-Laute-Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 1984 * ''Die Klaviersonate nach

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...

'',

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft The Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG) was a German publishing house in Darmstadt. With about 60,000 subscribers (as of 2023) it was one of the largest book clubs in Germany. German scientists founded the WBG in 1949 as a voluntary associati ...

, Darmstadt 1987

Musicological editor

* ''

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; ; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his Tone poems (Strauss), tone poems and List of operas by Richard Strauss, operas. Considered a leading composer of the late Roman ...

und Franz Wüllner im Briefwechsel'', Arno-Volk-Verlag, Köln 1963 * '' Max-Bruch-Studien – Zum 50. Todestag des Komponisten'', Arno-Volk-Verlag, Cologne 1970 * ''Rheinische Musiker – Folge 7'', , Kassel 1972 * ''Rheinische Musiker – Folge 8'', Merseburger Verlag, Kassel 1974 * ''Rheinische Musiker – Folge 9'', Merseburger Verlag, Kassel 1981 * '' Frank Martin, das kompositorische Werk – 13 Studien'', Bericht über das Internationale Frank-Martin-Symposium, 18 until 20 Oktober 1990 in Köln-Brauweiler,

Schott Music Schott Music () is one of the oldest German music publishers. It is also one of the largest music publishing houses in Europe, and is the second-oldest music publisher after Breitkopf & Härtel. The company headquarters of Schott Music were foun ...

, Mainz 1993 * ''Der musikalische Futurismus'', , Laaber 1999 * ''Alte Musik und Aufführungspraxis – Festschrift for

Dieter Gutknecht Dieter Gutknecht (born in 1942) is a German musicologist and former University music director. Life Gutknecht first began his music studies with a focus on performance practice early music, violin and conducting at the State Hochschule für Musik ...

zum 65. Geburtstag'',

Lit Verlag LIT Verlag is a German academic publisher founded in 1980. Its managing director is Wilhelm Hopf. Its principal place of publication is Münster; further publishing offices are located in Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg, London, Zurich, and New York Cit ...

, Münster / Berlin / Vienna / Zürich 2007 * ''

Max Bruch Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic Music, Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin ...

und

Philipp Spitta Julius August Philipp Spitta (27 December 1841 – 13 April 1894) was a German music historian and musicologist best known for his 1873 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach. Life He was born in , near Hoya, and his father, also called Phili ...

im Briefwechsel'', Merseburger Verlag, Kassel 2013Dietrich Kämper im Studio
on Wayback machine

Festschriften for his birthday

* ''Musik – Kultur – Gesellschaft. Interdisziplinäre Aspekte aus der Musikgeschichte des Rheinlandes; Dietrich Kämper zum 60. Geburtstag'', edited by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für rheinische Musikgeschichte,

Norbert Jers Norbert Jers (born 1947) is a German musicologist. Life Born in Aachen, Jers completed a practical musical education in piano and choir conducting. He then studied musicology, pedagogy and archaeology at the University of Cologne. He gained his ...

, Merseburger-Verlag, Kassel 1996 * ''Aspetti musicali – musikhistorische Dimensionen Italiens 1600 bis 2000; Festschrift für Dietrich Kämper zum 65. Geburtstag'', edited by Norbert Bolin,

Verlag Dohr Verlag Dohr is a publishing house for music in Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in 1990 by Christoph Dohr in , which moved to in 1992 and to in Bergheim in 2010. It publishes a quarterly magazine of music, ''fermate'', sh ...

, Cologne 2001

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kamper, Dietrich 20th-century German musicologists Academic staff of the University of Cologne 1936 births Living people People from Melle, Germany