Wolfgang RathertWolfgang Rathert (born 17 July 1960) is a German musicologist. Life and careerBorn in Minden,[1] Rathert passed the C-examination as a church musician during his school time and acquired the Abitur at the Herder-Gymnasium Minden.[citation needed] After his community service he studied historical musicology, philosophy and Modern history at the Free University of Berlin from 1980 to 1987. In 1987, he was awarded a PhD in musicology by Rudolf Stephan with a thesis on the US-American composer Charles Ives.[2] Afterwards, he worked for the Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände and later with a scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft postdoctoral researcher at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel. From 1989 to 1991, he completed a career training to become a scientific librarian at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and at the Fachhochschule für Bibliotheks- und Dokumentationswesen Köln, which he completed with an assessor work on the historical textbook collection (opera libretti) of the music department of the Berlin State Library. From 1991 to 2002, he was head of the music and performing arts department of the Zentralbibliothek der TU und UdK Berlin of the Universität der Künste Berlin;[2] in 1994/1995, he was also briefly head of the music department of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden. From 1996 to 2002, he was lecturer and Privatdozent respectively at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he received his habilitation in 1999 under the mentorship of Hermann Danuser.[1] In the summer semester 2000, he represented the chair of Wilhelm Seidel at the Musicological Institute of the University of Leipzig. In 2002, he was appointed as a professor of historical musicology with a focus on 20th century and new music at the Institute for Musicology of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has given guest lectures at Cornell UniversityHarvard University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Seoul National University.[1] Rathert has been a member of the board of trustees of the Géza Anda Foundation in Zürich since 2012.[2] Since 2014, he has been chairman of the jury of the Schneider-Schott Music Prize[3] and a member of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Committee of the Paul Sacher Foundation.[4] He is also chairman of the advisory board of the Deutsches Musikarchiv,[5] deputy managing director of the Karl Amadeus Hartmann Society in Munich[6] and member of the project advisory board of the Deutscher Musikrat music information center. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the book series Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century and served as member of the Advisory Board of the magazine Musik-Konzeptefrom 2004 to 2022. PublicationsAuthor:
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