Rainer Cadenbach


Rainer Cadenbach was a German musicologist and University professor.

Life

Born in near Kassel, Cadenbach studierte German, philosophy as well as musicology. In 1985 he won his habilitation with a thesis about Max Regers sketches and drafts and became Privatdozent. From 1987 to 1989 he was a substitute professor for musicology at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, where he was appointed professor in 1989, succeeding Reinhold Brinkmann.
Cadenbach conceived and directed numerous interdisciplinary and cross-faculty artistic-scientific projects, symposia and congresses. Topics were the composer Dieter Schnebel, Musicology in United Berlin, Music and Visualization, Walter Benjamin, John Cage, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Hindemith, Joseph Joachim, surrealism and DADA, Bohuslav Martinů, Hermann Kretzschmar, Beethoven, Ernst Pepping, Max Reger, Richard Strauss, Franz Schreker and his pupils and George Enescu. From 1997 to 2005 he was one of the main members of the first graduate college at a German art academy on the subject of Practice and theory of the artistic creative process.
In 2002, Cadenbach established a Beethoven Research Center at the University of the Arts, which, financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, developed the extensive edition Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries. Collaborators on the project, which was completed in 2008, were Klaus Martin Kopitz, Oliver Korte and Nancy Tanneberger.
Cadenbach died in Berlin at age 63.

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