Wolfgang Rathert

Born in Minden,{{cite web | title=Vita – LMU München | website=Institut für Musikwissenschaft | url=https://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/rathert/rathert_vita/index.html | language=de | access-date=18 December 2020}} Rathert passed the C-examination as a church musician during his school time and acquired the Abitur at the Herder-Gymnasium Minden.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} After his community service he studied historical musicology, philosophy and Modern history at the Free University of Berlin from 1980 to 1987. In 1987, he was awarded a PhD in musicology by Rudolf Stephan with a thesis on the US-American composer Charles Ives.{{cite web | last=Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum | title=Beirat | website=Home / MIZ | date=17 November 2016 | url=http://www.miz.org/beirat.html | language=de | access-date=19 December 2020}}

Afterwards, he worked for the {{Ill|Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände|de}} and later with a scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft postdoctoral researcher at the {{Ill|Paul-Sacher-Stiftung|de|3=Paul-Sacher-Stiftung|lt=Paul Sacher Foundation}} in Basel. From 1989 to 1991, he completed a career training to become a scientific librarian at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and at the Fachhochschule für Bibliotheks- und Dokumentationswesen Köln, which he completed with an assessor work on the historical textbook collection (opera libretti) of the music department of the Berlin State Library.

From 1991 to 2002, he was head of the music and performing arts department of the Zentralbibliothek der TU und UdK Berlin of the Universität der Künste Berlin; in 1994/1995, he was also briefly head of the music department of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden. From 1996 to 2002, he was lecturer and Privatdozent respectively at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he received his habilitation in 1999 under the mentorship of Hermann Danuser. In the summer semester 2000, he represented the chair of Wilhelm Seidel at the Musicological Institute of the University of Leipzig.

In 2002, he was appointed as a professor of historical musicology with a focus on 20th century and new music at the Institute for Musicology of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has given guest lectures at Cornell UniversityHarvard University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Seoul National University.

Rathert has been a member of the board of trustees of the Géza Anda Foundation in Zürich since 2012. Since 2014, he has been chairman of the jury of the Schneider-Schott Music Prize{{cite web | title=Schneider-Schott-Musikpreis | website=Landeshauptstadt Mainz | date=12 October 2018 | url=https://www.mainz.de/kultur-und-wissenschaft/kulturelle-preise-stipendien/schneider-schott-musikpreis.php | language=de | access-date=19 December 2020}} and a member of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Committee of the Paul Sacher Foundation.{{cite web | title=Stiftungsrat und Mitarbeitende | website=Paul Sacher Stiftung | url=https://www.paul-sacher-stiftung.ch/de/ueber-die-stiftung/stiftungsrat-mitarbeitende.html | language=de | access-date=19 December 2020}} He is also chairman of the advisory board of the Deutsches Musikarchiv,{{cite web | title=Tätigkeiten in Beiräten, Gremien und Jurys; Gutachtertätigkeit – LMU München | website=Institut für Musikwissenschaft | url=https://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/rathert/rathert_gremien/index.html | language=de | access-date=19 December 2020}} deputy managing director of the Karl Amadeus Hartmann Society in Munich[http://www.karl-amadeus-hartmann-gesellschaft.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=2&Itemid=4 New Board of Directors], press release on karl-amadeus-hartmann-gesellschaft.de, February 6, 2015 and member of the project advisory board of the Deutscher Musikrat music information center. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the book series Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century and served as member of the Advisory Board of the magazine Musik-Konzeptefrom 2004 to 2022.

Author:

• The Seen and Unseen. Studien zum Werk von Charles Ives.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463693299 The Seen and Unseen. Studien zum Werk von Charles Ives] on WorldCat Dissertation. Freie Universität Berlin 1987. Katzbichler, Munich/Salzburg 1991, {{ISBN|3-87397-078-3}}.
• Charles Ives. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft,[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/832411035 Charles Ives] on WorldCat Darmstadt 1989, {{ISBN|3-534-03249-7}}. 2nd edition 1996.
• Die Textbuchsammlung der Musikabteilung der Deutschen Staatsbibliothek Berlin unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Mozartopern.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1071104744 Die Textbuchsammlung der Musikabteilung der Deutschen Staatsbibliothek Berlin unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Mozartopern] on WorldCat Assessorarbeit. Fachhochschule für Bibliotheks- und Dokumentationswesen, Cologne 1991.
• (collaborator): Die Max-Reger-Sammlung im Stadtarchiv Weiden i. d. OPf.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/760111070 Die Max-Reger-Sammlung im Stadtarchiv Weiden i. d. OPf] on WorldCat Carus, Stuttgart 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-89948-086-3}}.
• with Berndt Ostendorf: Musik der USA. Kultur- und musikgeschichtliche Streifzüge.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1105597032 Musik der USA. Kultur- und musikgeschichtliche Streifzüge] on WorldCat Wolke, Hofheim 2018, {{ISBN|978-3-95593-112-4}}.

Publisher:

• with Dietmar Schenk: Pianisten in Berlin. Klavierspiel und Klavierausbildung seit dem 19. Jahrhundert.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237354009 Pianisten in Berlin : Klavierspiel und Klavierausbildung seit dem 19. Jahrhundert : European Piano Forum '99] on WorldCat Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Berlin 1999, {{ISBN|3-89462-068-4}}.
• with Dietmar Schenk: Carl Flesch und Max Rostal. Aspekte der Berliner Streichertradition. Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin 2002, {{ISBN|3-89462-090-0}}.
• with Giselher Schubert: Musikkultur in der Weimarer Republik.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/470162001 Musikkultur in der Weimarer Republik] on WorldCat Schott, Mainz u. a. 2001, {{ISBN|3-7957-0114-7}}.
• with Jürgen Selk: Kurt Weill: Chamber Music. Partitur und kritische Kommentierung. Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, New York 2004, {{ISBN|0-913574-63-5}}.
• with Herbert Schneider, Karl Anton Rickenbacher: Olivier Messiaen: Texte, Analysen, Zeugnisse. 2 volumes. Olms, Hildesheim.
  Volume 1: Texte aus dem Traité de rythme, de couleur et d’ornithologie.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/839747680 Texte aus dem Traité de rythme, de couleur et d’ornithologie] on WorldCat 2012, {{ISBN|978-3-487-14765-9}}.
  Volume 2: Das Werk im historischen und analytischen Kontext. 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-487-14766-6}}.
• With Carol J. Oja, Anne C. Shreffler, Felix Meyer: Crosscurrents. European and American Music in Interaction, 1900–2000. Proceedings of the Conferences at Cambridge, Mass. 2008, and Munich 2009. Boydell, Suffolk 2014, {{ISBN|978-1-84383-900-2}}.

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• [http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/rathert/index.html Wolfgang Rathert] auf der Website der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• [http://www.musikbibliographie.de/SET=1/TTL=1/CMD?MATCFILTER=N&MATCSET=N&ACT0=&IKT0=&TRM0=&ACT3=*&IKT3=8183&ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1004&SRT=YOP&TRM=Rathert%2C+Wolfgang Literatur von Wolfgang Rathert] in the Bibliography of Music Literature

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