Bertil H. van Boer

Bertil van Boer H. Jr. ( born October 2, 1952 in Tallahassee, Florida, USA, the son of a Swede and a U.S. citizen ) is an American musicologist, violinist, composer and conductor and is a professor at Western Washington University.

Life

He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, California, ( 1974: Bachelor's degree ) at the University of Oregon, ( 1978: Master's degree in music history ). Next he studied with Cesar Bresgen composition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. After working at Cornell University, Ithaca, he went to the University of Uppsala in Sweden, where he became in 1983 a doctorate in musicology.

The College of Fine Arts at Wichita State University (Kansas), the Conservatorio Nacional of Nicaragua, the Shasta College, Redding, California, and the Brigham Young University, are also among his stops as a musicologist, before becoming a professor at the College of Fine and Performing Arts was appointed to the Western Washington University.

He is currently Dean of the Faculty Senate and a member of the Western Washington University.

Bertil van Boer is married to Margaret L. Fast.

Topics

Bertil van Boer is a specialist in the music of the 18th century.

He was known primarily as a publisher of a systematic- thematic catalog raisonné of compositions by Joseph Martin Kraus. The VB directory has more than 200 numbers, and in an annex a further 15 Addenda. (See below: Publications ).

Van Boer dealt in addition with composers such as Christoph Willibald Gluck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn and some Swedish contemporaries, including Johan Helmich Roman Johan Agrell and. Recently he made in Germany known composer and musician Ignacio de Jerusalem, who lived in South America in the 18th century.

His own compositions have been performed in Sweden, Austria, the United States and Nicaragua. In Stuttgart he has been in the summer of 2006 for a long time, since he was the publisher of the works of Joseph Martin Kraus also in the preparation of the premiere of the opera " Aeneas in Carthage " ( 1781-1791 ) complicit in the Staatsoper Stuttgart in July 2006.

Compositions

Publications

• Bertil van Boer H.: The works of Joseph Martin Kraus. Systematic- thematic catalog of works, Stockholm: Kungl. Musikaliska Academies 1988
• Bertil van Boer: Dramatic Cohesion in the Music of Joseph Martin Kraus, Lewiston 1989 (Series: Studies in History and Interpretation of Music Number, Vol 15) ( ISBN 0-88946-440-5 )
• Bertil van Boer ( ed.): Gustav III and the Swedish Stage. Opera, Theatre, and Other Foibles, Lewiston 1993 (Series: Studies in History and Interpretation of Music Number, Vol 40 (ISBN 0-7734-9314- x)
• Bertil van Boer: 'The Case of the Circumstantial Meeting: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Martin Kraus in Vienna', in: Eighteenth - Century Music, Cambridge 2004

Memberships

• American Musicological Society (AMS ) (since 1978) ( vgl.en: American Musicological Society )
• International Musicological Society (since 1986)
• Svenska för Samfundet Musikforskning (since 1987)
• Lyrica Society for Word -Music Relations (since 1992, currently Vice- President )
• Society for Eighteenth Century Music (since 2000, currently Vice- President )
• Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies (since 1985)

• Musicologist
• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• University teachers ( Western Washington University)
• University teachers (Provo )
• University teachers (Wichita, Kansas)
• University teachers (Redding, California )
• American composer
• Born in 1952
• Man