Wolfgang Sandberger – författare

Der als Funkautor und Moderator bekannte Wolfgang Sandberger unternimmt es, Bachs Leben und seine Wirkung für Leser und Musikhörer unserer Zeit neu nachzuzeichnen.

Einer der wichtigsten Komponisten des 19. Jahrhunderts. Johannes Brahms gilt vielen als Endpunkt einer ästhetisch-historischen Entwicklung, als Galionsfigur, welche die Weltgeltung der deutschen Musik zum letzten Mal (Wilhelm Furtwängler) gesichert habe. Abgesehen von der Oper hat er in allen musikalischen Gattungen exemplarische Werke geschaffen. Führende Brahms-Forscher erkunden in diesem Handbuch seine Kompositionsweise sowie die Voraussetzungen und Wirkungen seines Werkes. Ein Muss für alle, die sich für Brahms Musik begeistern.

Die Beförderung der historisch-kritischen Musikwissenschaft ist das Anliegen der vorliegenden Festschrift.

The number of eponymous female characters in Handel's work is remarkable, from the first opera Almira (1705) to the last melodramma Deidamia (1740), supplemented by Esther, Deborah and Athalia. In the contributions of the GHB 2016, the female figure is traced in the music of Handel's time, guided by the central aesthetic terms 'sensitive', 'heroic' and 'sublime'. In addition, there are studies by Hans Joachim Marx and Ton Koopman, in addition to the usual bibliography and communications from the Göttinger Handel Society. V.

The Göttingen Handel Contributions (GHB) are published as a yearbook and are published by Laurenz Lütteken and Wolfgang Sandberger on behalf of the Göttingen Handel Society. With Oskar Hagen's Rodelinde pioneering work, opera took center stage at the first Göttingen Handel Festival in 1920. The symposium marking the centenary was therefore dedicated to the topic of opera as a business, from the interaction between aesthetic judgment and commerce, to capitalist business structures and the content implemented in the libretti, to the most expensive aspect of the opera enterprise, the singers. Volume XXIII contains all the lectures at the symposium as well as the keynote lecture by Wolfgang Sandberger, which on the occasion of the anniversary traces the continuities and breaks in the history of the festival. As always, the volume is supplemented by the bibliography on Handel literature and the communications from the Göttingen Handel Society.

The Göttingen Handel Festival had to be canceled in the anniversary year 2020, apart from a few digital substitute events, like almost all other music festivals. This also affected the annual symposium and the lecture, which each make up the main part of the GHB. Nevertheless, there are good reasons why the Handel Society decided to keep the GHB published on a regular basis. The present volume therefore brings together, inspired by the anniversary year, five independent contributions that are dedicated to particular aspects of Handel's reception in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This includes a documentation of the Göttingen anniversary exhibition from 2020. Oskar Hagen's text adaptation of Handel's 'Rodelinda', which was created for the Göttingen performance in 1920, will also be republished for the occasion.