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3 Awards  





4 Publications  



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Wolfgang Suppan (5 August 1933 – 4 May 2015) was an Austrian musicologist. He is the father of the wind musician and composer Armin Suppan.

Career

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Born in Irdning, Suppan studied music at the Johann-Joseph-Fux-Conservatory Graz [de] and musicology (Hellmut Federhofer), folklore with (Viktor Geramb [de], Hanns Koren [de]) and philosophy (Amadeo Silva-Tarouca) at the University of Graz. In 1959, he was awarded a Dr. phil. In 1961, he went to Freiburg im Breisgau as a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, first to the Institute for East German Folklore, and since 1963 to the Deutsches Volksliedarchiv as a musicological consultant. In 1971, he received his habilitation for musicology at the University of Mainz. In 1974, he accepted a call to the Institute for Music Ethnology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Assistant professorships took him to the University of Göttingen in 1991/92, to Innsbruck in 1992/93 and to Salzburg in 1991/92 and 1996/97. He has also held lectureships and guest professorships at the Institute for Music Pedagogy at the University of Frankfurt, at the Aarhus University, the Columbia University, the University of Texas at Austin, among others, and the Bar-Ilan University. He retired in 2001.[1]

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Suppan co-founded and directed a number of international societies: in 1955 the Johann Joseph Fux Society (1995 to 2001 President), in 1967 the Study Group for the Research of Historical Folk Music Sources in the ICTM (co-chair until 1988), in 1965 the International Society for Jazzforschung [de] (since then advisory board), 1974 the International Society for the Research and Promotion of Wind Music [de] (President until 2000), in 1981 the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (President from 1995 to 1997). He was a member of the Presidium of the Deutscher Musikrat from 1973 to 1978 and of the ISME Research Commission from 1975 to 1981. His main areas of work included the anthropology of music, European ethnomusicology, brass music research and the history of music in Austria. From 1996 to 2006, he was also the head of the Styrian Brass Music Association.[2]

Suppan died in Graz at the age of 79.

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References

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  1. ^ Suppan Family on musiklexikon.ac.at
  • ^ a b Die Kunstuniversität Graz trauert um Wolfgang Suppan. Retrieved on 9 October 2020.
  • ^ a b "Wolfgang Suppan : Mainzer Professorenkatalog". Gutenberg Biographics (in German). Retrieved 17 December 2023.
  • ^ Literatur für/über Wolfgang Suppan
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