Gabriele Buschmeier | |
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Born | |
Died | 14 July 2020 Germany | (aged 65)
Nationality | German |
Occupation | Musicologist |
Gabriele Buschmeier (13 March 1955 – 14 July 2020) was a German musicologist. [1] [2] [3] From 2012 until her death in 2020, she was Vice President of the Verwertungsgesellschaft Musikedition . [4] [5] [6] [7]
Buschmeier studied German, history, and musicology at universities in Cologne and Paris.[ citation needed] She completed a doctoral degree at the University of Mainz with a thesis, Die Entwicklung von Arie und Szene in der französischen Oper von Gluck bis Spontini, which studied the evolution of solo songs in European opera. [8] [9] The revised version of her thesis, which was published in 1991, was "warmly recommended" by Jesse Rosenberg, although with criticism for the choices and reliability of her sources. [8]
From 1994 onwards, she worked as a senior consultant for the coordination of musicological editions at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.[ citation needed]
Buschmeier died on 14 July 2020, aged 65. [3] [10] [11]