Wolf Frobenius (1 June 1940 – 4 July 2011) was a German musicologist and lecturer, who taught at the Saarland University.
Born in Speyer, Frobenius studied musicology, art history and history at the University of Freiburg from 1960 to 1968 (with two semesters abroad at the University of Paris), where he became a Dr. phil. in 1968 with a thesis on Johannes Boens. From 1968 to 1988, he was a research assistant at the Hand Dictionary of Musical Terminology (for which he wrote 24 articles) and edited the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Terminology for Rhythm and Notation of Mensural Music (1969-1975), Terminology of Musical Time Organization (1975-1978) and Names of the Types of the mehrst. Satzes (1978-1979), from which numerous monographs on the history of concepts have emerged.[1]
From 1971 to 1988, Frobenius was lecturer at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. After his habilitation in 1988, he became a professor at the Saarland University. Frobenius did research on the early beginnings of music and was active in the field of early polyphony. He wrote an article on the music of the Middle Ages for the encyclopaedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Just like the beginnings of music, he was interested in the sound worlds that Neue Musik opened up. His main areas of research were the music and music theory of the Middle Ages and the 20th century.[1] He was regarded as an expert on Robert Schumann and New Music.
Frobenius died on 4 July 2011 at the age of 71 in Saarbrücken.[1] Shortly before that he appeared as editor of the volume Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance together with Rainer Kleinertz [de] and Christopher Flamm [de] at the Georg Olms Verlag. In his honour, a commemorative lecture was given by Rob C. Wegman from the Princeton University on the Paradoxes in the Tradition of Organa dupla of the Notre Dame Epoch.[2]4
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