Christoph Kammertöns

Christoph Kammertöns (born 1966) is a German musicologist and music educator.

Life

Born in Bochum, Kammertöns studied instrumental pedagogy (piano) at the Folkwang University of the Arts as well as musicology, educational science, philosophy and history^[2] at the same place, at the University of Duisburg-Essen and at the University of Hagen. With a dissertation on Henri Herz in the mirror of the French music criticism of his time, he was awarded the doctorate in 1999.^[3]

His musicological interest is directed towards the piano and its music, the distinctive character of the piano as an "instrument of domination",^[4] and generally on instrumental and symbolic functions of bourgeois musical culture. In addition, he is concerned with musical-philosophical questions among others on openness and incompleteness, corporeality and performative utterance.^[5] Kammertöns is also a teacher of music, education and philosophy.^[6] He previously worked, among other things, as a dramaturge for dance^[7] at the Luzerner Theater [de]^[8] as well as a ballet pianist.^[9]

Publications (selection)

Friedrich Wiecks "Clavier und Gesang" und andere musikpädagogische Schriften.^[10] Annotated ed. by Tomi Mäkelä and Christoph Kammertöns. Von Bockel Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-932696-02-6.
Chronique Scandaleuse. Henri Herz – ein Enfant terrible in der französischen Musikkritik des 19. Jahrhunderts (Folkwang-Texte^[11] Volume 15). Die blaue Eule, Essen 2000, ISBN 3-89206-999-9 (323 p.; Dr. phil. thesis, 1999).
Lexikon des Klaviers. Baugeschichte, Spielpraxis, Komponisten und ihre Werke, Interpreten. Edited by Christoph Kammertöns and Siegfried Mauser, with a foreword by Daniel Barenboim. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2006, ISBN 3-89007-543-6.
Das Klavier. Instrument und Musik (Beck'sche Reihe. 2752; C. H. Beck Wissen), Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-63719-3.
Friedrich Wieck – Gesammelte Schriften über Musik und Musiker. Aufsätze und Aphorismen über Geschmack, Lebenswelt, Virtuosität, Musikerziehung und Stimmbildung, mit Kommentaren und mit einer historischen Einführung (Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Musik, vol. 10). Edited by Tomi Mäkelä, Christoph Kammertöns and Lena Esther Ptasczynski. Peter Lang, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-631-76747-4.

References

^ Christoph Kammertöns (2020). András Schiff – ein autoritativer Pianist: Über András Schiff und die »Goldberg-Variationen«. Rombach Wissenschaft. pp. 73–88. doi:10.5771/9783968210131-73. ISBN 978-3-96821-012-4. S2CID 225538183. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
^ Christoph Kammertöns (2020). Pseudohistorical Narrative Patterns in Thomas Hobbes? The "remarkable amount of history" in Leviathan between real history and legitimation-giving mythicisation (Master's thesis). Institute of History, FernUniversität in Hagen. doi:10.18445/20200328-113611-0. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
^ "Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology. Christoph Kammertöns". ams-net.org. American Musicological Society. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
^ Corinne Holtz (13 December 2013). ""Herrschaftsinstrument Klavier", Gespräch mit Christoph Kammertöns" (in German). Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
^ "Christoph Kammertöns". rsh-duesseldorf.de. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
^ "Christoph Kammertöns | Autorenprofil und Werke | beck-shop.de" (in German). Retrieved 11 February 2021.
^ "Interview mit Christoph Kammertöns: "Im Dienst der Kunst" – dansesuisse.ch" (in German). Retrieved 11 February 2021.
^ "Luzerner Theater -> Menschen -> Team". 21 June 2006. Archived from the original on 21 June 2006. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
^ "Faculty Directory – Folkwang University of the Arts". 29 April 2002. Archived from the original on 29 April 2002. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
^ Friedrich Wiecks Clavier und Gesang und andere musikpädagogische Schriften] OCLC 925543408
^ "Folkwang Texte". Folkwang University of the Arts. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

External links

Literature by and about Christoph Kammertöns, catalogue of the Musiconn – Für vernetzte Musikwissenschaft [de]
Literature by and about Christoph Kammertöns, catalogue of the Bibliography of Music Literature
Academic focus at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf
kammertoens.info, website with detailed information on publications, short monograph on Henri Herz

[1] Christoph Kammertöns (2020). András Schiff – ein autoritativer Pianist: Über András Schiff und die »Goldberg-Variationen«. Rombach Wissenschaft. pp. 73–88. doi:10.5771/9783968210131-73. ISBN 978-3-96821-012-4. S2CID 225538183. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

[2] Christoph Kammertöns (2020). Pseudohistorical Narrative Patterns in Thomas Hobbes? The "remarkable amount of history" in Leviathan between real history and legitimation-giving mythicisation (Master's thesis). Institute of History, FernUniversität in Hagen. doi:10.18445/20200328-113611-0. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

[3] "Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology. Christoph Kammertöns". ams-net.org. American Musicological Society. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

[4] Corinne Holtz (13 December 2013). ""Herrschaftsinstrument Klavier", Gespräch mit Christoph Kammertöns" (in German). Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

[5] "Christoph Kammertöns". rsh-duesseldorf.de. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

[6] "Christoph Kammertöns | Autorenprofil und Werke | beck-shop.de" (in German). Retrieved 11 February 2021.

[7] "Interview mit Christoph Kammertöns: "Im Dienst der Kunst" – dansesuisse.ch" (in German). Retrieved 11 February 2021.

[8] "Luzerner Theater -> Menschen -> Team". 21 June 2006. Archived from the original on 21 June 2006. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

[9] "Faculty Directory – Folkwang University of the Arts". 29 April 2002. Archived from the original on 29 April 2002. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

[10] Friedrich Wiecks Clavier und Gesang und andere musikpädagogische Schriften] OCLC 925543408

[11] "Folkwang Texte". Folkwang University of the Arts. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

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