Giselher Schubert (born 24 January 1944[1][2]) is a German musicologist.

Life and career

Born in Königsberg, Schubert studied musicology, sociology and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with Günther Massenkeil, at the Freie Universität Berlin with Rudolf Stephan and at the University of Zürich with Kurt von Fischer. In 1973 he was honored in Bonn with a thesis on instrumentation with Arnold Schönberg which gained him his PhD.

Since 1974 he has been working as the editor of the Hindemith Complete Edition at the Hindemith Institute [de] in Frankfurt, which he directed from 1991 to 2011. Since 2005 he has been co-editor of the Hindemith Complete Edition. From 1985 to 1996 he was co-editor of the journal Musiktheorie. He is co-editor of the Kurt Weill complete edition and member of the editorial board of the Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition. Until 2010 he was chairman of the Society for the Promotion of the Arnold Schönberg complete edition. Since 1986 he has been a freelance contributor to the magazine Fono Forum [de].

Schubert is honorary professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. He publishes mainly on music of the 19th and 20th centuries, on music theory and on Aesthetics of music.

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