Giselher Schubert
Giselher Schubert 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 Schoenberg which gained him his PhD.Since 1974 he has been working as the editor of the Hindemith Complete Edition at the 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 .
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.
Publications
Studien zur Instrumentation beim frühen Schönberg. Dissertation. Bonn University 1973. Published under the title Schönbergs frühe Instrumentation. Koerner, Baden-Baden 1975,.Paul Hindemith. In Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Dargestellt von Giselher Schubert. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1981,. 2nd edition 1986. 3rd edition 1990. 4th edition 1995. 5th edition 1999.French: Paul Hindemith Actes Sud, Arles 1997,.
- with Andres Briner, Dieter Rexroth: Paul Hindemith. Leben und Werk in Bild und Text. Schott, Mainz 1988,.
- with Constantin Floros, Christian Martin Schmidt: Johannes Brahms – die Sinfonien. Einführung, Kommentar, Analyse. Schott, Mainz 1998,.Hindemith und Honegger, Konturen einer ungewöhnlichen Freundschaft. Amadeus, Winterthur um 2008,.
- Andres Briner: Musikalische Koexistenz. MWith a foreword by Hermann Danuser. Schott, Mainz 1993,.
- Paul Hindemith: Aufsätze, Vorträge, Reden. Atlantis, Zürich/Mainz 1994,.Alte Musik im 20. Jahrhundert. Wandlungen und Formen ihrer Rezeption. Schott, Mainz etc. c. 1995,.Biographische Konstellation und künstlerisches Handeln. Schott, Mainz u. a. 1997,.Französische und deutsche Musik im 20. Jahrhundert. Schott, Mainz u. a. 2001,.
- mit Wolfgang Rathert: Musikkultur in der Weimarer Republik. Schott, Mainz u. a. 2001,.
- mit Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort, Ludwig Finscher: Europäische Musikgeschichte. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2002,.