Christoph Kammertöns Explained

Christoph Kammertöns (born 1966) is a German musicologist and music educator.

Life

Born in Bochum, Kammertöns studied instrumental pedagogy (piano) at the Folkwang University of the Arts as well as musicology, educational science, philosophy and history^[1] at the same place, at the University of Duisburg-Essen and at the University of Hagen. With a dissertation on Henri Herz in the mirror of the French music criticism of his time, he was awarded the doctorate in 1999.^[2]

His musicological interest is directed towards the piano and its music, the distinctive character of the piano as an "instrument of domination",^[3] and generally on instrumental and symbolic functions of bourgeois musical culture. In addition, he is concerned with musical-philosophical questions among others on openness and incompleteness, corporeality and performative utterance.^[4] Kammertöns is also a teacher of music, education and philosophy.^[5] He previously worked, among other things, as a dramaturge for dance^[6] at the ^[7] as well as a ballet pianist.^[8]

Publications (selection)

Friedrich Wiecks "Clavier und Gesang" und andere musikpädagogische Schriften.^[9] Annotated ed. by Tomi Mäkelä and Christoph Kammertöns. Von Bockel Verlag, Hamburg 1998, .
Chronique Scandaleuse. Henri Herz – ein Enfant terrible in der französischen Musikkritik des 19. Jahrhunderts (Folkwang-Texte^[10] Volume 15). Die blaue Eule, Essen 2000, (323 p.; Dr. phil. thesis, 1999).
Lexikon des Klaviers. Baugeschichte, Spielpraxis, Komponisten und ihre Werke, Interpreten. Edited by Christoph Kammertöns and Siegfried Mauser, with a foreword by Daniel Barenboim. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2006, .
Das Klavier. Instrument und Musik (Beck'sche Reihe. 2752; C. H. Beck Wissen), Munich 2013, .
Friedrich Wieck – Gesammelte Schriften über Musik und Musiker. Aufsätze und Aphorismen über Geschmack, Lebenswelt, Virtuosität, Musikerziehung und Stimmbildung, mit Kommentaren und mit einer historischen Einführung (Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Musik, vol. 10). Edited by Tomi Mäkelä, Christoph Kammertöns and Lena Esther Ptasczynski. Peter Lang, Berlin 2019, .

External links

Literature by and about Christoph Kammertöns, catalogue of the
Literature by and about Christoph Kammertöns, catalogue of the Bibliography of Music Literature
Academic focus at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf
kammertoens.info, website with detailed information on publications, short monograph on Henri Herz

Notes and References

Christoph Kammertöns . Pseudohistorical Narrative Patterns in Thomas Hobbes? The "remarkable amount of history" in Leviathan between real history and legitimation-giving mythicisation . 2020 . Master's thesis . Institute of History, FernUniversität in Hagen. 11 February 2021 . 10.18445/20200328-113611-0. none.
Web site: Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology. Christoph Kammertöns. live. 11 February 2021. ams-net.org. American Musicological Society. https://web.archive.org/web/20210119211825/http://www.ams-net.org/ddm/fullResult.php?id=6639 . 2021-01-19.
Web site: Corinne Holtz . "Herrschaftsinstrument Klavier", Gespräch mit Christoph Kammertöns . Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF . 13 December 2013. 11 February 2021. de.
Web site: Christoph Kammertöns . rsh-duesseldorf.de . 11 February 2021.
Web site: Christoph Kammertöns Autorenprofil und Werke beck-shop.de . 11 February 2021. de.
Web site: Interview mit Christoph Kammertöns: "Im Dienst der Kunst" – dansesuisse.ch . 11 February 2021. de.
Web site: Luzerner Theater -> Menschen -> Team . 21 June 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060621050649/http://luzerner-theater.ch/menschen/team/ . 11 February 2021 . 21 June 2006 . live.
Web site: Faculty Directory – Folkwang University of the Arts . 29 April 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20020429042405/http://www.folkwang-hochschule.de/Wob/de/view/class189_id1825.html . 11 February 2021. 29 April 2002.
Friedrich Wiecks Clavier und Gesang und andere musikpädagogische Schriften
Web site: Folkwang Texte. . 11 February 2021.