# Arnfried Edler

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{{Short description|German musicologist (1938 – 2022)}}
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'''Arnfried Edler''' (21 March 1938 – 20 April 2022<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hmtm-hannover.de/de/aktuelles/meldungen/archiv/2022/mai/artikel/trauer-um-arnfried-edler/|title=HMTM Hannover: Trauer um Arnfried Edler (HMTM Hannover: Mourning for Arnfried Edler) |language=de|access-date=2024-05-14|publisher=www.hmtm-hannover.de}}</ref>) was a German [musicologist](/source/musicologist) and university professor in Kiel and Hanover.

== Life ==
Born in [Lüdenscheid](/source/L%C3%BCdenscheid), Edler studied music, German literary history and philosophy in Saarbrücken and Kiel and also took the A-Examen for Protestant [Church Music](/source/Church_Music) at the [Musikhochschule Köln](/source/Musikhochschule_K%C3%B6ln) in 1964. After completing his doctorate in historical musicology in 1968 and his legal clerkship for teaching at grammar schools, he worked from 1969 as a [research assistant](/source/research_assistant), head of the student cantor's office and university organist in Kiel with simultaneous teaching duties at the [Lübeck Academy of Music](/source/L%C3%BCbeck_Academy_of_Music).

After his [habilitation](/source/habilitation) in 1978, he became professor of historical musicology at the [University of Kiel](/source/University_of_Kiel). From 1989 to 2003, he worked at the [Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover](/source/Hochschule_f%C3%BCr_Musik%2C_Theater_und_Medien_Hannover).

Edler's research focuses on the music history of the 18th and 19th centuries, the social, mental and genre history of music (especially for keyboard instruments) as well as the history of [aesthetics of music](/source/aesthetics_of_music) and [music education](/source/music_education). He has frequently worked as editor and co-author on scientific monument and complete editions ([Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach](/source/Carl_Philipp_Emanuel_Bach), [Robert Schumann](/source/Robert_Schumann)) as well as on congress and project reports.

== Publications ==
* ''Studien zur Auffassung antiker Musikmythen im 19. Jahrhundert'' (''Kieler Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft.'' Vol. 20, {{ZDB|504075-9}}). Bärenreiter, Kassel among others 1970 (Zugleich: Kiel, Univ., Diss., 1968).
* ''Der nordelbische Organist. Studien zu Sozialstatus, Funktion und kompositorischer Produktion eines Musikerberufes von der Reformation bis zum 20. Jahrhundert'' (''Kieler Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft.'' Vol. 23). Bärenreiter, Kassel among others 1982, {{ISBN|3-7618-0636-1}} (Zugleich: Kiel, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1978).
* ''Robert Schumann und seine Zeit'' (''Große Komponisten und ihre Zeit''). Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1982, {{ISBN|3-921518-71-7}} (3., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. ibid 2008, {{ISBN|978-3-89007-653-9}}; in the Italian language as ''Schumann e il suo tempo.'' EDT, Turin 1991, {{ISBN|88-7063-137-0}}).
* ''Gattungen der Musik für Tasteninstrumente'' (''Handbuch der musikalischen Gattungen.'' Vol. 7, parts 1–3). 3 volumes. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1997–2004; 
** Part 1: ''Von den Anfängen bis 1750'', XIII/463 Seiten mit 209 Abb. und 251 Notenbeispielen, 1997, {{ISBN|3-89007-130-9}}
** Part 2: ''Von 1750 bis 1830'', VII/384 Seiten mit 60 Abb. und 65 Notenbeispielen, 2003, {{ISBN|3-89007-286-0}}
** Part 3: ''Von 1830 bis zur Gegenwart'', VIII/392 Seiten mit 78 Abb. und 64 Notenbeispielen, 2004, {{ISBN|3-89007-595-9}}
*** expanded new edition: ''Geschichte der Klavier- und Orgelmusik'',<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263666494 ''Geschichte der Klavier- und Orgelmusik Bd. 1''] on worldCat</ref> 3 vols, Laaber 2007.
* ''Musik zwischen Mythologie und Sozialgeschichte. Ausgewählte Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1972 bis 2000'' (''Publikationen der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.'' Vol. 13), edited by Wolfgang Horn and [Günter Katzenberger](/source/G%C3%BCnter_Katzenberger). Wißner, Augsburg 2003, {{ISBN|3-89639-379-0}}.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{DNB portal|115484167}}

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