Hermann Danuser

Born in Frauenfeld, Danuser studied piano, oboe, musicology, philosophy and German language and literature at the Musikhochschule and the University of Zurich from 1965; he received his doctorate with a dissertation on musical prose. From 1973 he studied in Berlin with Carl Dahlhaus (musicology) and Gerhard Puchelt (piano). After working as a research assistant, he habilitated in 1982 at Technische Universität Berlin with a thesis on the music of the 20th century (published in 1984). From 1982 to 1988, Danuser taught as professor for musicology at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, then from 1988 to 1993 as professor for musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. From 1993 until his retirement in 2014, he held the chair for Historical Musicology at the Institute for Musicology and Media Studies of the Humboldt University of Berlin.[https://www.muwi.hu-berlin.de/Historische/mitarbeiter/prof-dr-dr-h-c-hermann-danuser/ Biography on the chair pages of the Humboldt University of Berlin]

Danuser also coordinates research at the {{Ill|Paul-Sacher-Stiftung|de}} Basel; from 1996 to 2017 he was member of the board of trustees of the {{Ill|Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung|de}}. He has held guest professorships at several leading universities in Europe and the USA. In the academic year 2017/18 he taught at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

Danuser's research focuses on music history of the 18th to 20th centuries, musical interpretation, the more recent history of music theory and aesthetics of music, and music analysis; he combines work analysis, music-aesthetic discourse formation, biography, genre and institutional history. In studies on avant-garde, nationalism, poetics, aesthetics and historiography he draws on transdisciplinary approaches. His most recent and currently ongoing research projects deal with the interaction of factors aesthetic to autonomy and heteronomy in the musical work of art (monograph Weltanschauungsmusik, 2009, with analyses, etc.) on Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, on Music of Spheres (Sfærernes Musik) by Rued Langgaard and on Hindemith's opera Die Harmonie der Welt),Lorenz Jäger: The Ninth as Paradigm. For the seventieth birthday of Hermann Danuser. In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 5 October 2016, p. N3. the conceptual history of musical performance since the 18th century (sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as well as manifestations of musical self-reference (monograph Metamusik, 2017). Danuser's extensive publishing and editorial activities make him one of the most important German-speaking musicologists of the present day.

Danuser is a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society. In 2005, the Royal Holloway of the University of London awarded him the title of Doctor of Music honoris causa for his scientific merits; a further honorary doctorate was conferred on him in 2014 by the National University of Music Bucharest.[https://www.muwi.hu-berlin.de/Historische/mitarbeiter/prof-dr-dr-h-c-hermann-danuser/doctor-honoris-causa-der-nationalen-musikuniversitaet-bukarest Announcement on the chair pages of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin] In 2015 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• {{Cite book

|title=Musikalische Prosa

|series=Studien zur Musikgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts

|volume=46

|publisher=Bosse

|location=Regensburg

|date=1975

|isbn=3-7649-2113-7}}

• {{Cite book

|title=Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts

|series=Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft

|volume=7

|publisher=Laaber-Verlag

|location=Laaber

|date=1984

|isbn=3-89007-037-X}}

• {{Cite book

|title=Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

|series=Meisterwerke der Musik

|volume=25

|publisher=Fink

|location=München

|date=1986

|isbn=3-7705-1741-5}}

• {{Cite book

|title=Gustav Mahler und seine Zeit

|series=Große Komponisten und ihre Zeit

|publisher=Laaber-Verlag

|location=Laaber

|date=1991

|isbn=3-921518-91-1}}

• {{Cite book

|title=Weltanschauungsmusik

|publisher=Edition Argus

|location=Schliengen

|date=2009

|isbn=978-3-931264-75-8}}

• {{Cite book

|title=Metamusik

|publisher=Edition Argus

|location=Schliengen

|date=2017

|isbn=978-3-931264-79-6}}

• {{Cite book

|author=Paul Hindemith

|title=Streicherkammermusik II

|series=Paul Hindemith: Sämtliche Werke

|volume=Serie V, Band 5

|publisher=B. Schott’s Söhne

|location=Mainz

|date=1993

|oclc=803579620}}

• {{Cite book

|author=Paul Hindemith

|title=Sonate für Violine allein op. 11 Nr. 6

|publisher=Schott

|location=Mainz

|date=2002

|ismn=979-0-001-13103-2}}

• {{Cite journal

|editor=Peter Cahn |editor2=Hermann Danuser |editor3=Renate Groth |editor4=Giselher Schubert

|title=Musiktheorie. Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft

|journal=Musiktheorie |publisher=Laaber-Verlag

|location=Laaber

|issn=0177-4182

}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Carl Dahlhaus |editor2=Hermann Danuser

|title=Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft

|volume=2, 3

|issue=Heft 11–13 (1986–1995)

|publisher=Laaber-Verlag

|location=Laaber

|date=1996

|isbn=3-89007-030-2}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Aleida Assmann |editor2=Hermann Danuser |editor3=Manfred Fuhrmann |editor4=Wolfgang Kemp |editor5=Renate Lachmann |editor6=Helmut Pfeiffer |editor7=Wolfgang Preisendanz |editor8=Jurij Striedter

|title=Theorie und Geschichte der Literatur und der schönen Künste

|publisher=Fink

|location=München

}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Rainer Cadenbach |editor2=Hermann Danuser |editor3=Albrecht Riethmüller |editor4=Christian Martin Schmidt

|title=Berliner Musik Studien; Schriftenreihe zur Musikwissenschaft an den Berliner Hochschulen und Universitäten

|publisher=Studio-Verlag

|location=Köln

}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Udo Bermbach |editor2=Dieter Borchmeyer |editor3=Hermann Danuser |editor4=Sven Friedrich |editor5=Hans Rudolf Vaget

|title=wagnerspectrum

|publisher=Königshausen & Neumann

|location=Würzburg

|issn=1614-9459

}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Dietrich Kämper |editor2=Paul Terse

|title=Amerikanische Musik seit Charles Ives

|publisher=Laaber-Verlag

|location=Laaber

|date=1987

|isbn=3-89007-117-1}}

• {{Cite book

|title=Gattungen der Musik und ihre Klassiker im Wandel der Geschichte

|series=Publikationen der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover

|volume=1

|publisher=Laaber-Verlag

|location=Laaber

|date=1988

|isbn=3-89007-114-7}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Helga de la Motte-Haber |editor2=Silke Leopold |editor3=Norbert Miller

|title=Das musikalische Kunstwerk. Geschichte – Ästhetik – Theorie

|publisher=Laaber-Verlag

|location=Laaber

|date=1988

|isbn=3-89007-144-9}}

• {{Cite book

|title=Gustav Mahler

|series=Wege der Forschung

|volume=653

|publisher=Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft

|location=Darmstadt

|date=1992

|isbn=3-534-02368-4}}

• {{Cite book

|title=Musikalische Interpretation

|series=Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft

|volume=11

|publisher=Laaber-Verlag

|location=Laaber

|date=1992

|isbn=3-89007-041-8}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Günter Katzenberger

|title=Vom Einfall zum Kunstwerk. Der Kompositionsprozeß in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts

|series=Publikationen der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover

|volume=4

|publisher=Laaber-Verlag

|location=Laaber

|date=1993

|isbn=3-89007-258-5}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Gianmario Borio

|title=Im Zenit der Moderne. Die Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt 1946–1966

|series=Rombach Wissenschaft: Reihe musicae

|volume=2

|publisher=Rombach

|location=Freiburg i. Br.

|date=1997

|isbn=3-7930-9138-4}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Tobias Plebuch

|title=Musik als Text

|publisher=Bärenreiter

|location=Kassel

|date=1998

|isbn=3-7618-1403-8}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen |editor2=Tobias Plebuch |others=Redaction: Burkhard Meischein

|title=Carl Dahlhaus. Gesammelte Schriften in 10 Bänden (2000–2008)

|publisher=Laaber-Verlag

|location=Laaber

|isbn=3-89007-235-6}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Hermann Gottschewski

|title=Amerikanismus – Americanism – Weill. Die Suche nach kultureller Identität in der Moderne

|publisher=Edition Argus

|location=Schliengen

|date=2003

|isbn=3-931264-23-8}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Matthias Kassel

|title=Musiktheater heute

|series=Veröffentlichungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung

|volume=9

|publisher=Schott

|location=Mainz

|date=2003

|isbn=3-7957-0481-2}}

• {{Cite book

|title=Musikalische Lyrik

|series=Handbuch der musikalischen Gattungen

|volume=8.1 u. 8.2

|publisher=Laaber-Verlag

|location=Laaber

|date=2004

|id=971462682}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Peter Gülke |editor2=Norbert Miller

|title=Carl Dahlhaus und die Musikwissenschaft. Werk, Wirkung, Aktualität

|publisher=Edition Argus

|location=Schliengen

|date=2011

|isbn=978-3-931264-76-5}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Heidy Zimmermann

|title=Avatar of Modernity: The Rite of Spring reconsidered

|publisher=Boosey & Hawkes

|location=London

|date=2013

|isbn=978-0-851628-23-3}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Matthias Kassel

|title=Wessen Klänge? Über Autorschaft in neuer Musik

|series=Veröffentlichungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung

|volume=12

|publisher=Schott

|location=Mainz

|date=2017

|isbn=978-3-7957-1173-3}}

Hundreds of essays and articles in specialist periodicals and reference works, introductions, forewords and epilogues, honours, newspaper articles and much more  a.m.A comprehensive list can be found on the [http://www.muwi.hu-berlin.de/Historische/mitarbeiter/prof-dr-dr-h-c-hermann-danuser/ Chair pages of the Humboldt University Berlin.]

A selection of 125 texts has been published in a four-volume edition (arranged under the volume titles "Theory", "Aesthetics", "Historiography" and "Analysis"):

• {{Cite book

|editor=Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen |editor2=Christian Schaper |editor3=Laure Spaltenstein

|title=Gesammelte Vorträge und Aufsätze

|publisher=Edition Argus

|location=Schliengen

|date=2014

|isbn=978-3-931264-78-9}}

• {{Cite book

|author=Dmitri Shostakovich

|title=Tahiti-Trott (Tea for two by Vincent Youmans) Op. 16

|publisher=Sikorski

|location=Hamburg

|date=2006

|isbn=3-935196-78-4}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Camilla Bork |editor2=Tobias Robert Klein |editor3=Burkhard Meischein |editor4=Andreas Meyer |editor5=Tobias Plebuch

|title=Ereignis und Exegese. Musikalische Interpretation – Interpretation der Musik

|publisher=Edition Argus

|location=Schliengen

|date=2011

|isbn=978-3-931264-77-2}}

• {{Cite book

|editor=Paul Sacher Stiftung

|title=On revient toujours. Dokumente zur Schönberg-Rezeption aus der Paul Sacher Stiftung

|publisher=Schott Music

|location=Mainz

|date=2017

|isbn=978-3-7957-1202-0}}

• [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87908497/ Hermann Danuser im WorldCat]
• {{DNB portal|122111508}}
• [http://www.musikbibliographie.de/SET=45/TTL=1/COLMODE=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1004&SRT=YOP&TRM=Danuser%2C+Hermann Literatur von Hermann Danuser] in the Bibliography of Music Literature
• [http://www.muwi.hu-berlin.de/Historische/mitarbeiter/prof-dr-dr-h-c-hermann-danuser Homepage am Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminar der HU Berlin]
• [http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/OCTOPUS/;?module=gepris&context=person&task=showDetail&id=1027613 Geförderte Projekte Hermann Danusers] bei der Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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