Siegfried Mauser

Siegfried Mauser ( born November 3, 1954 in Straubing ) is a German pianist and musicologist. He is considered an important interpreter of the piano works of the 20th century, in particular by Paul Hindemith, Killmayer and Wolfgang Rihm.

Life

Mauser studied music and piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in Rosl Schmid and Alfons Kontarsky, as well as philosophy and art history at the Universities of Munich and Salzburg. In 1981 he earned his doctorate at the University of Salzburg in Musicology.

From 1983 to 1987 he taught as a professor of piano and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. Then he worked as a professor of musicology to the Mozarteum in Salzburg; there he founded in 1989 a research institute for musical hermeneutics. He was appointed Professor of Musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in 2002, he in 2003 as rector of projects ( from 1st October 2007 official title President ). He also heads up a class for song composition.

Since 2002 he has headed the music department of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.

On February 21, 2014 Mauser was elected as the new rector of the Mozarteum. He will take office as the successor of Reinhart von Gutzeit, who also stood for election and was considered a favorite, on 1 October 2014.

The list of his recordings includes, inter alia, the complete piano works of Paul Hindemith, Alexander Zemlinsky and Karl Amadeus Hartmann and piano music of Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Rihm, Killmayer and chamber music by Günter Bialas and Paul Hindemith, in addition, songs, eg. of Gustav Mahler ( with Siegfried Jerusalem).

Siegfried Mauser is married to the soprano and actress Amélie Sandmann. The couple lives in Munich.

Honors

Works

  • The expressionist musical theater of the Second Viennese School. Stylistic and evolutionary studies of Arnold Schoenberg's "expectation ", " The Golden Touch " and Alban Berg's " Wozzeck". Regensburg ( bosses ) 1982. (Dissertation, Salzburg 1981. ) ISBN 3-7649-2264-8
  • Beethoven Piano Sonatas (2001) ISBN 3-406-41873-2
  • Handbook of musical genres, 16 vols ( as editor ), ISBN 3-89007-124-4 Laaber -Verlag
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