Klaus Hortschansky (7 May 1935 – 16 May 2016)[1] was a German musicologist.

Life and work

Born in Weimar, Hortschansky studied musicology from 1953 to 1966 in Weimar, Berlin and Kiel. In 1965 he became an assistant at the Musicological Institute in Kiel, where he received his doctorate in 1966 from Anna Amalie Abert with a thesis on the topic Parody and Borrowing in the Work of Christoph Willibald Gluck. From 1968 he worked as an assistant at the Musicological Institute in Frankfurt am Main before being appointed director of the Musicological Seminar at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster in 1984.[2]

Hortschansky's main areas of research were the music of the Franco-Flemish School and operas of the 18th century.[3] From 1992 to 1997 he was president of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, furthermore he was editor of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe, vice president of the Haydn-Institut in Cologne and co-editor of the Gluck-Gesamtausgabe.

Hortschansky retired at the end of the summer semester 2000, but continued to take master's and doctoral examinations until the 2010 summer semester.

Since 2001 Hortschansky has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. In the same year he also became a member of the Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften zu Erfurt [de]. In the Frankfurt University Library exists the "Hortschansky Collection", microfilmed copies of about 2000 Italian opera libretti.[4]

Hortschansky died in Münster at age 81.

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References

  1. ^ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik, Fach Musikwissenschaft. "Musikwissenschaft Münster - Startseite". uni-muenster.de. Retrieved 2019-05-30.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik, Fach Musikwissenschaft. "Musikwissenschaft Münster - Prof. em. Dr. Klaus Hortschansky - Biografie". uni-muenster.de. Retrieved 2019-05-30.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Laurenz Lütteken: ahead of the fashions of his time. Mozart's tone: "On the death of the musicologist Klaus Hortschansky". In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 25 May 2016, p. 12.
  4. ^ "Sammlung Klaus Hortschansky (*1935) (Seite der Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt/Main über die Sammlung Hortschansky)". ub.uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
  5. ^ "Prof. Dr. Jin-Ah Kim – Musikwissenschaft – Humboldt-Universität Berlin". muwi.hu-berlin.de. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
  6. ^ personal site of Wasserloos at the Mozarteum. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
  7. ^ Festschrift Klaus Hortschansky zum 60. Geburtstag (1995 ed.). OL 914213M.