Wolfram Steinbeck


Wolfram Steinbeck is a German musicologist.

Life

Steinbeck was born in Hagen. He studied musicology, philosophy and modern German literature at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. He received his doctorate in 1972 from Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht with a dissertation on The Minuet in the Instrumental Music of Joseph Haydn. In 1972, he became assistant at the musicological institute of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, where he habilitated in 1979 with the work Struktur und Ähnlichkeit. Methoden automatisierter Melodienanalyse. In 1988, he became Professor of Musicology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. From 2001 to 2011, he held the chair of Historical Musicology at the University of Cologne. He was a lecturer at the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and deputy chairman of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in Bonn. He is corresponding member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, chairman of the Joseph Haydn-Institut in Cologne, member of the board of trustees of the Max-Reger-Institute in Karlsruhe, and co-editor of the journal Archiv für Musikwissenschaft. He wrote numerous books and articles about European musical history of composition of the 17th to the early 20th century.

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