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In memoriam
Prof Dr Peter Andraschke (1939–2020)
Festival Ljubljana and the Slovenian Music Days remember our long-term
collaborator and friend, the musicologist Peter Andraschke, who died on 25
March this year, after a rich and full life.
Born in Bielsko-Biała in southern Poland on 1 December 1939, he stud-
ied musicology in Freiburg and German philology in Munich, Berlin and
Freiburg. He was a graduate assistant and then Privatdozent at the Univer-
sity of Freiburg. His doctoral thesis (published in 1976) was entitled Gustav
Mahlers IX. Symphonie: Kompositionsprozess und Analyse (“Gustav Mahl-
er’s Ninth Symphony: Compositional Process and Analysis”) and is consid-
ered one of the fundamental works for understanding Mahler’s method of
composition. His habilitation paper on folklore and non-European art mu-
sic in avant-garde compositions of the twentieth century (1981) was anoth-
er important work. From 1988 until his retirement in 2005 he was Professor
of Music History at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. He loved coming
to Slovenia and from 1986 onwards was closely involved in the organisation
of the Slovenian Music Days in Ljubljana, remaining a loyal supporter until
the end of his life. For this year’s symposium in Ljubljana he prepared and
submitted the paper “Schoenberg’s relationship with popular music: oper-
etta, vocal music and instrumental music”. He was an in-demand and pop-
ular participant at conferences and symposia throughout Europe. In his
writings he always liked to return to the relationship between music and
poetry, between music and language.
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In memoriam
Prof Dr Peter Andraschke (1939–2020)
Festival Ljubljana and the Slovenian Music Days remember our long-term
collaborator and friend, the musicologist Peter Andraschke, who died on 25
March this year, after a rich and full life.
Born in Bielsko-Biała in southern Poland on 1 December 1939, he stud-
ied musicology in Freiburg and German philology in Munich, Berlin and
Freiburg. He was a graduate assistant and then Privatdozent at the Univer-
sity of Freiburg. His doctoral thesis (published in 1976) was entitled Gustav
Mahlers IX. Symphonie: Kompositionsprozess und Analyse (“Gustav Mahl-
er’s Ninth Symphony: Compositional Process and Analysis”) and is consid-
ered one of the fundamental works for understanding Mahler’s method of
composition. His habilitation paper on folklore and non-European art mu-
sic in avant-garde compositions of the twentieth century (1981) was anoth-
er important work. From 1988 until his retirement in 2005 he was Professor
of Music History at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. He loved coming
to Slovenia and from 1986 onwards was closely involved in the organisation
of the Slovenian Music Days in Ljubljana, remaining a loyal supporter until
the end of his life. For this year’s symposium in Ljubljana he prepared and
submitted the paper “Schoenberg’s relationship with popular music: oper-
etta, vocal music and instrumental music”. He was an in-demand and pop-
ular participant at conferences and symposia throughout Europe. In his
writings he always liked to return to the relationship between music and
poetry, between music and language.
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