Andres Briner
Andres Briner (31 May 1923 – 1 June 2014) was a Swiss music historian, academic and art journalist
Life
[edit]Briner was born in Zürich and educated at the University of Zurich. In musicology he was a student of Paul Hindemith.[1] In 1953 he received his doctorate from Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez at the University of Zurich.[2] From 1968, Briner was active at the Hindemith Foundation as a member of the foundation board, and from 1986 to 1998 he was its president.[1]
He worked with Rolf Liebermann at the Zurich Radio Studio from 1953 to 1955, after which he went to the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught until 1964. From 1964 to 1988 he was the successor of Willi Schuh as editor of the feature section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in the fields of music and musicology. Briner's main areas of work were the work of Paul Hindemith and New German School since 1880, as well as composers in Switzerland and the history of music in Zurich.[1]
Briner died in Zürich at the age of 91[3]
Honours
[edit]- 2006: Honorary Doctorate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zürich.[4]
Publications
[edit]- Der Wandel der Musik als Zeitkunst. Universal Edition, Vienna 1955 (Dissertation, Universität Zürich, 1953, als Versuch über die musikalische Zeitgestalt und ihre Wandlung in der europäischen Musik seit der mensuralen Mehrstimmigkeit).
- Paul Hindemith. Atlantis, Zürich und Freiburg, 1971.
- with Giselher Schubert, Dieter Rexroth: Paul Hindemith. Leben und Werk in Bild und Text. Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-0204-6.
In Italian: Paul Hindemith. Vita e opere. DeFerrari, Genua 1995, ISBN 88-7172-033-4. - Musikalische Koexistenz. Editor Giselher Schubert. With a foreword by Hermann Danuser. Schott, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-7957-1868-6.
External links
[edit]- Literature by and about Andres Briner in the German National Library catalogue
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Briner Andres". Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Musinfo, retrieved on 20 December 2019. - ^ [1], Katalog des Bibliotheksverbunds Nebis, retrieved on 20 December 2019.
- ^ Peter Hagmann: Zum Tod von Andres Briner. Der Wissenschafter als Kritiker. In die Neue Zürcher Zeitung 7 June 2014, p. 24, retrieved on 20 December 2019.
- ^ Ehrendoktor 2006 der Philosophischen Fakultät, Website of the University of Zürich, retrieved on 20 December 2019.
