Wolfgang Ruf
German musicologist and emeritus professor
Wolfgang Ruf (born 29 August 1941) is a German musicologist and emeritus professor.[1][2]
Life
Born in Radolfzell, Ruf studied musicology and history at the University of Freiburg, and obtained his doctorate in 1974. Until 1985 he was a research assistant of Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht at the Institute of Musicology in Freiburg.[3] In 1984 he was habilitated and in 1985 received a professorship for musicology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. From 1994 to 2006, Ruf worked at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg as well as at the Handel House in Halle. Ruf is editor and co-publisher of numerous publications.
He is married to Kathrin Eberl-Ruf [de], professor of musicology.
Awards
- 2011: Handel Prize of the city of Halle (Saale).[4]
Publications
- Die Rezeption von Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro bei den Zeitgenossen[5] in Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft; vol. 16. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1977. Zugl.: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Philos. Fak., Diss., 1974.
- Lexikon Musikinstrumente, editor Wolfgang Ruf, in collaboration with Christian Ahrens. Meyers Lexikonverlag, Mannheim 1991.
- Der Klang der Stadt : Musikkultur in Halle vom 17. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert.[6] (Forschungen zur hallischen Stadtgeschichte; vol. 13.) Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2009.
References
Bibliography
- Wolfgang Hirschmann [editor): Aria. Eine Festschrift für Wolfgang Ruf. Olms, Hildesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-487-14711-6.
External links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Ruf in the German National Library catalogue
- Wolfgang Ruf discography at Discogs
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Handel Prize Laureates
- Nicholas McGegan (1993)
- Axel Köhler (1994)
- Winton Dean (1995)
- Howard Arman (1996)
- Emma Kirkby (1997)
- Helmut Gleim (1998)
- Trevor Pinnock (1999)
- Donald Burrows (2000)
- John Eliot Gardiner (2001)
- Jean-Claude Malgoire (2002)
- Marc Minkowski (2003)
- Wolfgang Katschner (2004)
- Stanley Sadie (2005)
- Klaus Froboese (2006)
- Paul Goodwin (2007)
- Christopher Hogwood (2008)
- Jordi Savall (2009)
- Cecilia Bartoli (2010)
- Wolfgang Ruf (2011)
- Ragna Schirmer (2012)
- Magdalena Kožená (2013)
- Philippe Jaroussky (2015)
- Romelia Lichtenstein (2016)
- Vivica Genaux (2017)
- Joyce DiDonato (2018)
- Silke Leopold (2019)
- Valer Barna-Sabadus (2020)
- Andrea Marcon (2021)
- Wolfgang Hirschmann (2022)