Elmar Budde (born 13 June 1935) is a German musicologist. He studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

Training and career

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Born in Bochum, Budde studied piano and school music at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg where he passed his state examination in 1961. After subsequent studies in musicology and Germanistic at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, he received his doctorate in 1967 with a thesis on the early Anton Webern.

In 1972 he was appointed Professor of musicology at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Berlin (today: Berlin University of the Arts).

His areas of research include the history of musical composition from the Middle Ages to the present; the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of performance practice and interpretation and questions and problems of the interdisciplinary (music - painting - architecture) and finally the music of Franz Schubert.

Honour

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Bibliography

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  • Anton Weberns Lieder op. 3.[1]
  • Schuberts Liederzyklen: ein musikalischer Werkführer.[2]
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