Tel.: +49 (0)5231 / 975 660
Email: keil[at]mail.uni-paderborn.de
Consultation hours:
- 01.06.2011
- 06.07.2011
- 03.08.2011
- 07.09.2011
- 05.10.2011
10 – 12 am, Musicology Seminar, Gartenstr. 20, Room 20
Professor for historical Musicology
Main Research and working areas
Wilhelm Heinse
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Arnold Schönberg
Theodor W. Adorno
Early Romanticism
History of music of the 19th and early 20th century
Music aesthetics, Music philosophy
Vita
Werner Keil, born 1952 in Moers, after attending a humanistic grammar school studied musicology and mathematics at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University as well as music education at the Academy of Music and performing Arts in Frankfurt on the Main. His teachers were Joachim Volkmann (piano), Peter Cahn (music theory), Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, Helmut Hucke, Winfried Kirsch (musicology) and Wolfgang Metzler (mathematics). First state examination for music education in comprehensive schools 1979, second state examination 1981. From 1980 to 1982 teaching assignments at the Dr. Hoch’s conservatory in Frankfurt and at the same time student teacher/lecturer in Hessen; 1982 PhD with Untersuchungen zum frühen Klavierstil von Debussy und Ravel. Since 1982 academic councillor / academic senior councillor and director at the institute for music and musicology at the University of Hildesheim, where he wrote his postdoctoral dissertation (Habilitation) E. T. A. Hoffmann als Komponist and in 1992 was nominated as assistant professor.
In 1997 he was appointed professor for historical musicology at the University of Paderborn/ Detmold Academy of Music. There he has worked since 1999 as executive director or assistant executive director of the Musicology Seminar and from 2002 to 2003 as prorector of the Detmold Academy of Music.
Keil has predominately published about interdisciplinary topics regarding the early romanticism and the romantic music aesthetics and has been editing the series Hildesheimer musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten and DISKORDANZEN. Studien zur neueren Musikgeschichte founded by him since 1995, where up until 2007 15 volumes have been released. Since 2007 he is the editor of the UTB-series Basiswissen Musik, which was founded by him. Guest professorships, teaching assignments and lectures have taken him amongst others to Goettingen, Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester and to the USA (Dartmouth/Hanover, New Hampshire).
PUBLICATIONS
Supervised postdoctoral lecture qualifications and dissertations
a) postdoctoral dissertations (Habilitationen):
Dr. Juergen Arndt: Thelonious Monk und der Free Jazz. (Completion in 2001)
b) PhD theses:
Khadija Zeynalova: Die Rezeption westlicher Musik in der aserbaidschanischen Musikkultur des 20. Jahrhunderts, untersucht am Beispiel ausgewählter aserbaidschanischer Komponisten.
Gero Wycik: Studien zu Schumanns „Manfred“.
Bettina Petersen: Studien zu Schoenbergs „Kol Nidre“ op. 39.
Oliver Kok: Tonsatz- und Harmonielehrebücher im 20. Jahrhundert. Versuch einer historischen ästhetischen Einordnung.
Matthias Koch: Studien zu Kirnbergers „Kunst des reinen Satzes“.
Peter Kluge: Mendelssohns Orgelsonaten.
Benedikt Vennefrohne. Die Sinfonien Hans Werner Henzes. (Completion in 2004)
Robert Liebrand: Die Entwicklung der katholischen Kirchenmusik in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. (Completion in 2002)
Dirk Buhrmann: Arnold Schoenbergs „Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte“ op. 41 (1942). (Completion in 2001)
Michael Krestan: Das russische Glockengeläute und sein Einfluß auf die Kunstmusik Rußlands im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. (Completion in 2000)
Axel Klein: Die Musik Irlands im 20. Jahrhundert. (Completion in 1995)
