Matthias Herrmann Explained

Matthias Herrmann (born 14 October 1955) is a German musicologist and university professor.

Life

Born in Mildenau, Herrmann became a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor conducted by Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger, later Martin Flämig. He then studied musicology at the University of Leipzig and later became a staff member of the music department of the Saxon State Library in Dresden as well as of the cultural editorial staff of the .

He wrote his doctorate about the court-music of the House of Wettin in Dresden around 1500 and was habilitated on compositional work, especially the early work of Rudolf Mauersberger. He worked as a scientific assistant and senior assistant at the in Dresden and was appointed to a professorship for music history at the Institute for Musicology of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden in 1993.

He has published the series Sächsische Studien zur älteren Musikgeschichte at the Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad publishing house in Altenburg, and the Dresdner Schriften zur Musik and the Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchores at the Tectum publishing house in Marburg and Baden-Baden.

Herrmann is a member of the editorial board of the and a board member of the, where he served as chairman until 2016). He was spokesman of the association "Heinrich Schütz in Dresden", and a longstanding member of the cultural advisory board of the state capital Dresden.

Publications

Torgau und die evangelische Kirchenmusik. With a foreword by Christian Thielemann (editor), Altenburg 2013 (Sächsische Studien zur älteren Musikgeschichte, vol. 4)

Notes and References

  1. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/762038247 Rudolf Mauersberger : 1889-1971; Protokoll der Wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Anläßlich des 100. Geburtstages des Kreuzkantors.
  2. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/906824096 Die Dresdner Kirchenmusik im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
  3. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55963090 Arnold Schönberg in Dresden
  4. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180920596 Der Dresdner Kreuzchor. Geschichte, Wirkungsstätten, Schule.
  5. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191923205 Märchenoper. Ein europäisches Phänomen
  6. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237882588 Musik im mittelalterlichen Dresden. Vom Werden einer Musikstadt
  7. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/845978922 Erkundungen zu Günter Raphael – Mensch und Komponist