Manuel Gervink


Manuel Gervink is a German musicologist and scholar who has worked at the Universities of Cologne and Dresden.

Life

Born in Münster, Gervink graduated from Gymnasium in 1976. From 1976 to 1984 he studied musicology, German language and literature and philosophy at the University of Münster, where he received his doctorate in 1984. From 1984 he worked for ten years as a research assistant at the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne. From 1995-1999, he was professor for musicology at the Musikhochschule Köln. In 2000 he was appointed professor at the University of Cologne.
In 2002 Gervink was appointed Professor of Musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber as Director of the Institute of Musicology. His main focus is the field of Contemporary classical music.

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