Hansjörg Pauli
Hansjörg Pauli (3 March 1931 – 15 February 2007) was a Swiss musicologist, pianist, journalist, music critic, screenwriter, and film director.
Life and career
[edit]Hansjörg Pauli was born in Winterthur, Switzerland on 3 March 1931. He studied at the Winterthur Conservatory from which he graduated in 1953. [1] He pursued further studies in London with Hans Keller.[2] He began working as a music critic and journalist for Swiss newspapers in 1956.[1] One of the publications he wrote criticism for was Neues Winterthurer Tageblatt. He also worked as a jazz pianist in the 1950s.
From 1960 to 1965 Pauli worked at Radio Zürich on new music broadcasts,[3] and between 1965 and 1968 he was a music editor for NDR-Fernsehen[4] where he directed TV documentaries and produced films by Richard Leacock, Rolf Liebermann, Klaus Wildenhahn[4] and others. Since 1968 he is a freelance writer. He joined the faculty of the University of Television and Film Munich in 1969.[1]
Pauli is a prominent authority on the music of Luigi Nono. He has also worked on films as a screenwriter and director. Films he has written and directed himself include Webern, oder Ein Leben für die Kunst (1971–3), Strawinsky Weekend (1972–3), and Klänge machen Leute: Funktion und Mechanik von Filmmusik (1973).[1]
Articles by Hansjörg Pauli
[edit]- 'On Strawinsky's Threni', Tempo, New Series, No. 49 (Autumn, 1958), pp. 16–17+21-33
- 'Hans Werner Henze's Italian Music', The Score, No.25, June 1959
- 'Für wen komponieren Sie eigentlich?' Reihe Fischer, vol. F 16. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1971.
- 'Bernard Herrmanns Musik zu Citizen Kane', Dissonance 26 (November 1990): 12–18.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Hanspeter Krellmann (2001). "Pauli, Hansjörg". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21104.
- ^ Carlo Piccardi / CN. "Pauli, Hansjörg". Hls-dhs-dss.ch. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
- ^ "Zeilen, wie man Musik macht". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ^ a b "In der Ruhe liegt die Erkenntnis". Die Welt (in German). 23 June 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
