Hansjörg Pauli (3 March 1931 – 15 February 2007) was a Swiss

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, pianist, journalist, music critic, screenwriter, and film director.

Life and career

Hansjörg Pauli was born in

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, Switzerland on 3 March 1931. He studied at the Winterthur Conservatory from which he graduated in 1953. He pursued further studies in London with

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. He began working as a music critic and journalist for Swiss newspapers in 1956. One of the publications he wrote criticism for was ''Neues Winterthurer Tageblatt''. He also worked as a jazz pianist in the 1950s. From 1960 to 1965 Pauli worked at Radio Zürich on new music broadcasts, and between 1965 and 1968 he was a music editor for NDR-Fernsehen where he directed TV documentaries and produced films by

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, Rolf Liebermann,

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and others. Starting in 1968 he became a freelance writer. He joined the faculty of the

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in 1969. Pauli was a prominent authority on the music of

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. He also worked on films as a screenwriter and director. Films he wrote and directed himself include ''Webern, oder Ein Leben für die Kunst'' (1971–3), ''Strawinsky Weekend'' (1972–3), and ''Klänge machen Leute: Funktion und Mechanik von Filmmusik'' (1973).

Articles by Hansjörg Pauli

* 'On Strawinsky's ''Threni, ''Tempo, New Series'', No. 49 (Autumn, 1958), pp. 16–17+21-33 * 'Hans Werner Henze's Italian Music', ''The Score'', No.25, June 1959 * 'Für wen komponieren Sie eigentlich?' ''Reihe Fischer, vol. F 16''. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1971. * 'Bernard Herrmanns Musik zu Citizen Kane', Dissonance 26 (November 1990): 12–18.

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