Berthold Hoeckner
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Berthold Hoeckner is a German musicologist and is an associate professor of music at the University of Chicago
. He was educated at the Musikhochschule Cologne, University of Cologne
, and King's College London
before earning his doctorate from Cornell University
in 1994. Hoeckner grew up in Olpe
, Germany.
Hoeckner specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, aesthetics
, Theodor Adorno, music and literature, film music and visual culture, and the psychology and neuroscience of music. Hoeckner has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Alfred Einstein Prize from the American Musicological Society
in 1998, a Mellon New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew Mellon Foundation in 2006-2007, and a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
in 2001-2002. He has been at the University of Chicago
since 1994, and also serves as resource faculty for the Cinema and Media Studies Department, and Germanic Studies Department, and on the faculty of the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture.
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
. He was educated at the Musikhochschule Cologne, University of Cologne
University of Cologne
The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...
, and King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
before earning his doctorate from Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
in 1994. Hoeckner grew up in Olpe
Olpe, Germany
Olpe is situated in the foothills of the Ebbegebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia, roughly 60 km east of Cologne and 20 km northwest of Siegen. It is part of the Regierungsbezirk of Arnsberg and is the seat of the district of Olpe.- Location :...
, Germany.
Hoeckner specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, aesthetics
Aesthetics
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...
, Theodor Adorno, music and literature, film music and visual culture, and the psychology and neuroscience of music. Hoeckner has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Alfred Einstein Prize from the American Musicological Society
American Musicological Society
The American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly,...
in 1998, a Mellon New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew Mellon Foundation in 2006-2007, and a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a foundation set-up by the government of the Federal Republic and funded by the German Foreign Office, the Ministry of Education and Research, the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and others for the promotion of international co-operation...
in 2001-2002. He has been at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
since 1994, and also serves as resource faculty for the Cinema and Media Studies Department, and Germanic Studies Department, and on the faculty of the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture.
Books and Selected Articles
- Audiovisual Memory: Transport and Transportation. In Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema (Richard Leppert, Lawrence Kramer, and Daniel Goldmark, Editors - University of California Press 2007)
- "Paths through Dichterliebe.” Nineteenth-Century Music (2006)
- Apparitions: New Perspectives on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music (Editor - Routledge 2006)
- "Homage to Adorno's ‘Homage to Zerlina’.” Musical Quarterly (2004)
- Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment (Princeton University Press 2002)
- "Poet's Love and Composer's Love.” Music Theory Online (2001)
- "Schumann and Romantic Distance.” Journal of the American Musicological Society (1997)
- "Elsa Screams or the Birth of Music Drama.” Cambridge Opera Journal (1997)