Werner Grünzweig (born 1959) is an Austrian

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

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Life

Born in

Graz Graz () is the capital of the Austrian Federal states of Austria, federal state of Styria and the List of cities and towns in Austria, second-largest city in Austria, after Vienna. On 1 January 2025, Graz had a population of 306,068 (343,461 inc ...

, Grünzweig first studied piano at the

University of Music and Performing Arts Graz The University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, also known as Kunstuniversität Graz (KUG) is an Austrian university. Its roots can be traced back to the music school of the '' Akademischer Musikverein'' founded in 1816, making it the oldest un ...

, and from 1984 musicology and American studies at the

Freie Universität Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

. He graduated with an M.A. in 1989. In 1995 he was awarded the Dr. phil. with the work ''Ahnung und Wissen, Geist und Form : Alban Berg als Musikschriftsteller und Analytiker der Musik Arnold Schönbergs'' (published 2000 at the

Universal Edition Universal Edition (UE) is an Austrian classical music publishing firm. Founded in 1901 in Vienna, it originally intended to provide the core classical works and educational works to the Austrian market. The firm soon expanded to become one of t ...

Vienna). Since 1994 Grünzweig has been head of the music archive of the

Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy of Arts () is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany. The academy's predecessor organization was founded in 1696 by Elector F ...

.Music Archives
at the Academy of Arts. Retrieved 12 September 2024.

Selected publications

* Werner Grünzweig, Gesine Schröder, (editors): '' Schnebel 60''. Wolke, Hofheim 1990, . * : ''Von innen und außen. Schriften über Musik, Musikleben und Ästhetik''. Ed. by Werner Grünzweig and Gottfried Krieger. Wolke, Hofheim 1993. * Werner Grünzweig: ''Ahnung und Wissen, Geist und Form.

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( ; ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

als Musikschriftsteller und Analytiker der Musik

Arnold Schönberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first Modernism (music), modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-centu ...

s''. Wien, Universal Edition 2000; 320 pages. * Werner Grünzweig, Jörn Peter Hiekel, Anouk Jeschke (eds.): ''

Hans Zender Johannes Wolfgang Zender (22 November 1936 – 22 October 2019) was a German conductor and composer. He was the chief conductor of several opera houses, and his compositions, many of them vocal music, have been performed at international festival ...

: vielstimmig in sich''. Wolke, Hofheim 2008; 118 pages.

References

External links

Wiederkehr des Verdrängten öffentlich machen
Restricted access.
Publications Werner Grünzweig
on the Musikbibliographie at the

State Institute for Music Research The State Institute for Music Research ( or ''SIMPK'') is a musicological research facility in Berlin, Germany for the study of Musical Instruments, Music History, Music Theory and Music technology. It is an agency of the Prussian Cultural Herit ...

Berlin. Retrieved 12 September 2024. {{DEFAULTSORT:Grunzweig, Werner 1959 births Living people Writers from Graz Austrian musicologists Austrian archivists University of Music and Performing Arts Graz alumni