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Sieghart Döhring

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Sieghart Döhring (born 12 December 1939) is a German musicologist and Opera researcher.

Career

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Born in Biskupiec, East Prussia, Döhring studied musicology, theology and philosophy in Hamburg and Marburg/Lahn. In 1969 he gained a doctorate at the University of Marburg. From 1983 to 2006 he was head of the Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater in Schloss Thurnau [de] at the University of Bayreuth.

Döhring's research mainly concerns music theatre. Together with Carl Dahlhaus he published Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theatre [de] from 1986 to 1997.

Döhring is married to the musicologist and opera researcher Sabine Henze-Döhring.

Publications

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  • Formgeschichte der Opernarie vom Ausgang des achtzehnten bis zur Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.[1] Itzehoe: George 1975.
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer. Große Oper als Ideendrama. Habilitationsschrift (mschr.) Technische Universität Berlin 1987.
  • Oper und Musikdrama im 19. Jahrhundert[2] (together with Sabine Henze-Döhring). (Handbuch der musikalischen Gattungen, vol. 13) Laaber: Laaber-Verlag 1997.

Festschriften in honour of Döhring

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  • Opernedition. Bericht über das Symposion [1999] zum 60. Geburtstag von Sieghart Döhring. Edited by Helga Lühning and Reinhard Wiesend in cooperation with Peter Niedermüller and Katja Schmidt-Wistoff. Mainz: Are-Edition 2005 (Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft, Vol. 12).
  • Bühnenklänge: Festschrift für Sieghart Döhring zum 65. Geburtstag. Edited by Thomas Betzwieser, Daniel Brandenburg, Rainer Franke, Arnold Jacobshagen, Marion Linhardt, Stephanie Schroedter and Thomas Steiert. Munich: Ricordi 2005.

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