Joachim Brügge


Joachim Brügge is a German musicologist and composer.

Life

Brügge was born in Kiel. After his studies of music theory at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, he studied Historical and Systematic Musicology/Music Ethnology and Ethnology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and completed his studies in 1993 with a thesis under Martin Staehelin "On the Personal Style of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart". In 2002 he habilitated at the University Mozarteum Salzburg on the subject of historical musicology with the thesis Wolfgang Rihm's string quartets. Aspects of analysis, aesthetics and genre theory of the modern string quartet.
Since 1994 he has been working at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, first at the Department 1 for musical composition/conducting and music theory and, after his habilitation, at the Department 9, musicology.
Since 2003 he has been working together with Peter Kuon and Sabine Coelsch-Foisner on the development of the focal point Science and Art, which is the cooperation between the University Mozarteum Salzburg and the University of Salzburg in teaching, scientific-artistic projects and publications.
In 2006 he founded the Institute for History of Musical Reception and Interpretation at the University Mozarteum Salzburg together with Wolfgang Gratzer and Thomas Hochradner.
Together with Thomas Bodmer and Hildemar Holl, numerous projects on the life and work of Stefan Zweig have been realized since 2002, which among others led to the foundation of the Zweig Centre in Salzburg in 2008.

Main areas of research

The modern music history of the 18th-20th century is at the centre of Bruges' musicological work, with the following focal points:
The teaching activities include music historical topics as well as selected topics.

Contributions to university development

At the end of the 1990s the University Mozarteum Salzburg had to cope with major tasks such as the closure and reconstruction of the main building on Mirabellplatz in 1998, the implementation of various austerity programmes with the reduction of the study plans or the management of the Mozart Year 2006. Brugge was involved in the following working groups:
Bruges has written numerous essays and articles on the history of music from the 18th to the 20th century. The present selection lists the book publications:
As author
As editor