Matthias Brzoska

Matthias Brzoska (born 24 June 1955) is a German musicologist. He leads his research and teaches at the Folkwang University of the Arts[1] in Essen.

Career

Brzoska studied musicology in Marburg and Berlin with Reinhold Brinkmann, Sieghart Döhring and Carl Dahlhaus and French philology with Hermann Hofer.

From 1981 to 1986 he was an assistant lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts, and received his doctorate in 1986 at the Technical University Berlin with a dissertation on Franz Schreker. From 1987 to 1990 he worked in Paris on a research project financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 1992 he was habilitated at the University of Bayreuth with a study on the idea of a Gesamtkunstwerk.

He then became professor of musicology at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. His research focuses on opera, music and intertextual relations between music and other arts. He undertook various research projects together with his wife, the musicologist Elisabeth Schmierer.[2]

Publications
  • Schrekers Der Schatzgräber (Archiv für Musikwissenschaft. issue 27), Stuttgart 1988
  • Idee des Gesamtkunstwerks in der Musiknovellistik der Julimonarchie (Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater. Volume 14).[3] Laaber, Laaber 1995.
  • with Elisabeth Schmierer, Susanne Fontaine, Werner Grünzweig: Töne, Farben, Formen. Über Musik und die bildenden Künste.[4] Laaber, Laaber 1995. 2nd revised edition 1998.
  • Hector Berlioz. Literarische Werke in 10 Bänden. Nachdruck der Ausgabe Leipzig 1903 ff., with an introduction by the editor. Laaber, Laaber 2004.
  • with Michael Heinemann (edit.): Die Geschichte der Musik. 3 volumes. Laaber, Laaber 2004.
  • with Hermann Hofer, Nicole Strohmann (edit.): Hector Berlioz. Ein Franzose in Deutschland.[5] Laaber, Laaber 2005.
  • Die Geschichte der musikalischen Gattungen.[6] Laaber, Laaber 2006.
  • with Andreas Jacob, Nicole Strohmann (edit.): Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le prophète. Edition – Konzeption – Rezeption.[7] Bericht über den Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Kongress (Musikwissenschaftliche Publikationen. Volume 33). Olms, Hildesheim 2009.

References
  1. Pr. Brzoska on the site of the Folkwang University of the Arts
  2. Matthias Brzoska on Opéra Comique
  3. Die Idee des Gesamtkunstwerks in der Musiknovellistik der Julimonarchie on WorldCat
  4. Töne, Farben, Formen. Über Musik und die bildenden Künste. on WorldCat
  5. Hector Berlioz. Ein Franzose in Deutschland on WorldCat
  6. Die Geschichte der musikalischen Gattungen on WorldCat
  7. Le prophète. Edition – Konzeption – Rezeption. on WorldCat
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