Klaus Hortschansky


Klaus Hortschansky 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.
Hortschansky's main areas of research were the music of the Franco-Flemish School and operas of the 18th century. From 1992 to 1997 he was president of the, 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. In the Frankfurt University Library exists the "Hortschansky Collection", microfilmed copies of about 2000 Italian opera libretti.
Hortschansky died in Münster at age 81.

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