Ursula Günther

Ursula Günther, born ize ( born June 15, 1927 in Hamburg, † November 21, 2006 ibid ) was a German musicologist.

Life

After studying piano with D. Kraus and HE Riebensahm and the study of music theory with H. Stahmer she graduated in 1947 in Hamburg, the music teacher 's degree from. Since 1947, officially since 1948, she studied music with Heinrich Husmann at the University of Hamburg with many minor subjects such as art history, German and Romance Literature, philosophy, and finally psychology and phonetics. In 1957 she was in Hamburg Husmann, supported by Heinrich Besseler, who also wrote the Korreferat, with a thesis on the change in style of the French song in the second half of the 14th century, which built on the estate of Friedrich Ludwig, PhD. After a long time of research, in which it was morally by Gilbert Reaney and poor Carapetyan and financially supported by her husband and only once in 1962 by the German Research Foundation, she took in 1968 a position as a teacher in Ahrensburg, because she wanted to finish her ​​habilitation which had been rejected by some German professors. Encouraged by French colleagues and Oliver Strunk she joined in 1969 the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris as Attaché de recherche to eventually ( by 1975 ) as Chargé de recherche with Jacques Chailley, supported by Nanie Bridgeman, where they also from 1969 to 1971 taught as a lecturer at the Sorbonne to prepare her " Doctorat d' état ​​" on Verdi's French years. After she had his habilitation in Göttingen 1972 ( published in 1965 by A. Carapetayan in CMM 39) with an edition of motets of the 14th century, she taught only one semester as a lecturer in Göttingen to her work as " Chargé de recherche " in Paris resume. In summer 1973 she was a visiting professor at New York University and was invited by numerous American universities to give lectures: Princeton, Harvard, Brandeis, Philadelphia, Maryland, Bloomington, UC Davis, and Los Angeles. Then, it was as " Chargé de cours " committed to the Free University, Brussels, to teach "Histoire de la notation musicale et transcription". In 1973, she turned down an offer from Brandeis University in 1975 and took a job as a lecturer at the University of Göttingen, 1977 was appointed professor and finally gave up her post at the CNRS, while she continued to teach in Brussels. The new University Act of the State of Lower Saxony enabled her to be director of Musicology in Göttingen for some time. In 1977, she held summer courses Verdi research at Northwestern University at Evenston IL. In 1992, she retired and lived since then in Ahrensburg near Hamburg and Cyprus.

Honors

In 1982, she was honored by France as " Chevalier of the Academic Palms ", and since 1992 she is Honorary Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. In 1994, she was elected a corresponding member of the American Musicological Society. Since 1976 she was a member of the editorial board of the new critical edition of Verdi's operas and of the Supervisory Board of the American Institute Verdi, since 1982, she is co-editor of the Journal of Musicology and since 1989 by Musica Disciplina. Since 1994, she was General Editor of the Musicological Studies and Documents. She has published numerous articles on composers, sources, datable compositions, the notation and style of the time, which was called by her " Ars subtilior ", as well as Verdi's operas. My Piano by Don Carlos, published in 1980, was used since 1974 by Claudio Abbado and other conductors.

Work

They became known as the eponym of the music-historical epoch of Ars subtilior which is temporally classified into the late 14th century. She avoided with this term, which was not incurred in the period itself, common until the 1960s term " mannered style " for this late period of Ars nova with its negative connotations and made the subtle, especially in Rhythmic very fine practice this time attention. Ursula Günther saw that the influence of Ars have been subtilior Europe must, as the composer of the following era building on the innovations of the Ars subtilior in the tonal and rhythmic range. They handed over the manuscripts to this music for the first time in the modern notation and was the main source, the Codex Chantilly out. They looked at several times subtilior with the change in style of the Ars nova Ars.

Another field of research was the work of Giuseppe Verdi: You published his opera Don Carlos in an issue with the five-act French original version and also with the four-act Italian version. To this end, they presented the publication of sketches.

Publications (selection)

For the 14th century

  • Diss: The musical style change of the French art song in the second half of the 14th century: presented to Virelais, ballads and rondeaux of Machaut and datable Kantilenensätzen his contemporaries and immediate successors.. Hamburg, 1957 286 p Bl signed: Notenbeisp, Appendix, .. 4 [ Maschinenschr. vervielf. ]. Theses: Hamburg, Phil F., Diss v. December 7, 1957 ( Non- fd Aust. ). See also:
  • Ten datable compositions of the Ars nova / ed. by Ursula Günther. Hamburg: Musikwiss. Inst d Univ.. Hamburg, 1959, 27 pp.; Series of the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg; H. 2
  • Ursula Günther: The end of the Ars Nova. In: Mf 16 (1963 ), pp. 105-120
  • Ursula Günther: For the biography of some composers of the Ars Subtilior. Archive for musicology, XXI ( 1964), pp. 172-199
  • The Motets of the Manuscripts Chantilly, Musée Condé, 564 ( olim 1047) and Modena, Biblioteca Estense, α 5.24 M. ( Latin olim 568 ), edited by Ursula Günther, [ np ]: American Institute of Musicology, 1965. Corpus Musicae mensurabilis 39
  • Ursula Günther and Ludwig Finscher (ed.), Aspects of music in church, court, and town from the 13th to the 15th century, MD xxxviii (1984) [ contains her essay "Unusual Phenomena in the Transmission of Late 14th Century Polyphonic Music", pp. 87-118 ]
  • Ursula Günther and Ludwig Finscher (ed.), 1380 to 1420: An international style, MD xli (1987) [ contains her with J. Nadas and JA Stinson. essay written " Magister Dominus Paulus Abbas de Florentia: New Documentary Evidence", pp. 203-246 ]
  • Music and text in the polyphony of the 14th and 15th century: lectures d Guest Symposium in d Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, 8th - 12th Sept. 1980 / ed. by Ursula Günther and Ludwig Finscher. Kassel [u a. ]: Barenreiter, 1984 488 p: Notenbeisp, . Series: Göttingen musicological work; ISBN 3-7618-0744-9 10
  • Ursula Günther: The Ars subtilior. In: Hamburger Yearbook of Musicology 11 (1991 ), pp. 277-288
  • The Cypriot - French Repertory of the Manuscript Torino J.II.9: Report of the International Musicological Congress, Paphos 20-25 March, 1992 by Ludwig Finscher and Societa italiana di Musicologia and Ursula Gunther and Associazione Piemontese per la ricerca delle fonti musicali. Hardcover, American Institute of Musicology, ISBN 3-7751-2501-9
  • Modality in the Music of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Modality in the Music of the 14th and 15th centuries; by Ludwig and Ursula Günther Finscher and Jeffrey J. Dean. Hardcover, American Institute of Musicology, Haenssler -Verlag, 1996 ( Musicological studies and documents ); ISBN 3-7751-2423-3 49
  • Ursula Günther: Polymetric rondeaux from Machaut to Dufay: Some Style Analytical Observations, in: Studies in Musical Sources and Style (cont. La Rue ), Madison, 1990, pp. 75-108
  • Ursula Günther: Remarks on the motet of the early and mid- fourteenth century, in: The motet (Mainz, 1992), pp. 29-39
  • Ursula Günther: La fine dell'Ars nova, in: Il canto delle pietre 1992, Como, 1992, pp. 71-87
  • Ursula Günther: Composers at the Court of the Antipopes in Avignon: Research in the Vatican Archives, in: Musicology and Archival Research, ed B. Haggh et al. ( = Bibliothèques Archives et de Belgique 46), (Bruxelles, 1994), pp. 328-337

At Giuseppe Verdi

  • Ursula Günther: 'La genèse de Don Carlos, opéra en cinq actes de Giuseppe Verdi, pour la première fois représenté à Paris le 11 mars 1867 ", in: RdM lviii (1972 ), 16-64 and lx (1974 ), 87 - 158
  • Ursula Günthe: Documents concernant les relations de Verdi inconnus avec l' Opéra de Paris ', in: Il Teatro e la musica di Giuseppe Verdi ( Parma, 1974), 564-583
  • Ursula Günther: difficulties with an opera. Among the various versions of Don Carlos, in: Yearbook of the Hamburg State Opera 6 (1977 /78), pp. 136-152
  • Ursula Günther: L' edizione integral del Don Carlos di Giuseppe Verdi: The complete edition of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi.. ( Milano): Ricordi, 1977, 31 pp. 4 ". .. Notenbeisp, text Italian and German and Engl German edition see
  • Ursula Günther: The complete edition of Don Carlos di Giuseppe Verdi. 1978
  • Ursula Günther: For the revision of Don Carlos. Postscript to Part II, in: An Mc xix (1979 ), 373-377
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos, Edizione delle varie integral versioni in cinque e in quattro atti ( comprendente gli Inediti Verdiani a cura di Ursula Günther ). Riduzione per canto e pianoforte con testo e francese italiano. Revisione secondo le fonti a cura di Usula Günther e Luciano Petazzoni, Milano: Ricordi, 1980 ( Copyright 1974)
  • Ursula Günther: 'La genèse you Don Carlos de Verdi: Nouveaux documents', in: RdM lxxii (1986 ), 104-117
  • Ursula Günther: '. Le Don Carlos de 1883 également œuvre française ', in: Verdi. Don Carlos ( L'Avant Scène Opéra = 90/91 ), Paris 1986, 36-43; Germany: ' The Don Carlos 1883; also ' a French work, in Verdi. Don Carlos ( = The Opernführer 1/2), Taufkirchen, 1988, 28-39.
  • Ursula Günther: ' Don Carlos: Edizione integral - Critical edition', in: Nuove Prospettive nella ricerca verdiana. Atti del convegno internazionale della prima del occasione in "Rigoletto " 'in edizione critica, Vienna 1983 ( Milano, 1987), 29-48
  • Ursula Günther, 'Rigoletto à Paris ', in: L'opera tra Venezia e Parigi (Firenze, 1988), pp. 269-314

At Friedrich Ludwig

  • Ursula Günther Friedrich Ludwig in Göttingen, in: Musicology and care at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen (Göttingen, 1987), pp. 152-175

Swell

  • Ursula Günther: The musical style change ..., Thesis Hamburg 1957
  • University of Hamburg: Catalogue of the library of the Musicology Department
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 5 December 2006 feuilleton
  • Martin Staehelin: Musicology and care at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen: contributions to their history. Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 3-525-35832-6. 200 pages
  • Christian Berger: Guenther, Ursula. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians online ( based on extensive interviews with Ursula Günther ).
  • Musicologist
  • Opera researchers
  • University teachers (Georg -August- University of Göttingen)
  • Carrier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques ( Ritter)
  • German
  • Born 1927
  • Died in 2006
  • Woman
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