Sieghart Döhring (born 12 December 1939) 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 ...

and Opera researcher.

Career

Born in

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, Döhring studied

musicology 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, ...

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and philosophy in Hamburg and Marburg/Lahn. In 1969 he gained a

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at the

University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg () is a public research university located in Marburg, Germany. It was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Prote ...

. From 1983 to 2006 he was head of the

Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater The (FIMT) is a research institute for the study of opera and music theater. It is located in the Thurnau Castle, Thurnau, near Bayreuth, Bavaria. FIMT is associated with the University of Bayreuth. The director of the Institute has also been ...

in at the

University of Bayreuth The University of Bayreuth (German: Universität Bayreuth) is a public research university located in Bayreuth, Germany. It is one of the youngest German universities. It is broadly organized into seven undergraduate and graduate faculties, with ...

. Döhring's research mainly concerns music theatre. Together with

Carl Dahlhaus Carl Dahlhaus (10 June 1928 – 13 March 1989) was a German musicologist who was among the leading postwar musicologists of the mid to late 20th-century. #Selected bibliography, A prolific scholar, he had broad interests though his research foc ...

he published ' from 1986 to 1997. Döhring is married to the musicologist and opera researcher Sabine Henze-Döhring.

Publications

* ''Formgeschichte der Opernarie vom Ausgang des achtzehnten bis zur Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts''. Itzehoe: George 1975. * ''Giacomo Meyerbeer. Große Oper als Ideendrama''. Habilitationsschrift (mschr.)

Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first ...

1987. * ''Oper und Musikdrama im 19. Jahrhundert''''Oper und Musikdrama im 19. Jahrhundert''
on WorldCat (together with Sabine Henze-Döhring). (Handbuch der musikalischen Gattungen, vol. 13) Laaber: Laaber-Verlag 1997.

''Festschriften'' in honour of Döhring

* ''Opernedition. Bericht über das Symposion

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zum 60. Geburtstag von Sieghart Döhring''. Edited by Helga Lühning and

Reinhard Wiesend Reinhard Wiesend (born 25 May 1946 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen) is a German musicologist and retired university professor. Wiesend studied musicology in Munich (with Thrasybulos Georgiades among others) and received his doctorate in Würzburg in 198 ...

in cooperation with Peter Niedermüller and Katja Schmidt-Wistoff. Mainz: Are-Edition 2005 (Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft, Vol. 12). * ''Bühnenklänge: Festschrift für Sieghart Döhring zum 65. Geburtstag''. Edited by Thomas Betzwieser, Daniel Brandenburg, Rainer Franke, Arnold Jacobshagen, Marion Linhardt, Stephanie Schroedter and Thomas Steiert. Munich: Ricordi 2005.

References

External links

*
Sieghart Döhring – persönliche Homepage (mit Publikationsverzeichnis)
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