Arnfried Edler Explained

Birth Date:21 March 1938
Occupation:musicologist

Arnfried Edler (21 March 1938 – 20 April 2022[1]) was a German musicologist and university professor in Kiel and Hanover.

Life

Born in Lüdenscheid, Edler studied music, German literary history and philosophy in Saarbrücken and Kiel and also took the A-Examen for Protestant Church Music at the Musikhochschule Köln in 1964. After completing his doctorate in historical musicology in 1968 and his legal clerkship for teaching at grammar schools, he worked from 1969 as a research assistant, head of the student cantor's office and university organist in Kiel with simultaneous teaching duties at the Lübeck Academy of Music.

After his habilitation in 1978, he became professor of historical musicology at the University of Kiel. From 1989 to 2003, he worked at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.

Edler's research focuses on the music history of the 18th and 19th centuries, the social, mental and genre history of music (especially for keyboard instruments) as well as the history of aesthetics of music and music education. He has frequently worked as editor and co-author on scientific monument and complete editions (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Robert Schumann) as well as on congress and project reports.

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: HMTM Hannover: Trauer um Arnfried Edler (HMTM Hannover: Mourning for Arnfried Edler) . de. 2024-05-14. www.hmtm-hannover.de.
  2. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263666494 Geschichte der Klavier- und Orgelmusik Bd. 1
  3. file:///C:/Users/Michel/AppData/Local/Temp/ifha-1132.pdf Edler, Arnfried, Musik zwischen Mythologie undSozialgeschichte. Ausgewählte Aufsätze aus den Jahren1972 bis 2000