German musicologist
Christoph von Blumröder (born 18 July 1951) is a German musicologist.
Career.
Born in Northeim, Blumröder studied musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Breisgau with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, philosophy and history of the New German literature.
After his doctorate in 1979, Blumröder was a research assistant at the "Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie" (1972–2006). From 1980 Blumröder also taught at the university there, where he received his habilitation in 1990.
After assistant professorships at the University of Bonn in the winter semester of 1991/92 and at the Saarland University in the summer semester of 1995, he accepted an appointment as professor for contemporary music at the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne in the winter semester of 1996/97. There he founded the cycles of events "Composition and Musicology in Dialogue" (1997) and "Space Music" (1998) as well as the publication series "Signale aus Köln. Beiträge zur Musik der Zeit" and was elected chairman of the association "Signale aus Köln" in 1999.
Furthermore, Blumröder is a member of the "Centre for Modern Research" at the University of Cologne and was involved in the Cultural Studies Research College Media and Cultural Communication from 2002 to 2007.
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