Izak Grové
Izak Grové completed his studies (piano, organ, composition and musicology) at the University of the Free State, where he obtained the Masters degree on a thesis concerning music-rhetorical elements in Beethoven's symphonies, and a doctoral degree on Beethoven's songs. The latter was initiated by Prof Günther Massenkeil at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut of the Friedrich Wilhelms Rhenish University in Bonn, where Grové spent a year as guest of the DAAD. The degree was completed in 1986 under the guidance of Prof Jacobus Kloppers (Edmonton, Canada).
During the years 1972 - 1988 Grové taught Musicology and Music Theory at the University of the Free State. In 1989 he was appointed professor in Musicology at the University of Stellenbosch. He has published mainly locally, on topics relating to aspects of South African music, as well as articles relating to composer Stefans Grové (born 1922). Grové was editor of a Festschrift (1984) on the work of the South African composer Arnold van Wyk (1916-1983). Professor Grové is currently secretary of the Musicological Society of Southern Africa, and was member of the Commission for a new hymnal of the Afrikaans (Reformed) Churces in South Africa. He is a member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Kuns en Wetenskap, and chairs that body's Arts Committee. In 1996 he was awarded a grant by the South African state research body, CSD (Centre for Scientific Research), as well as a second DAAD Stipend for Beethoven research at the Beethoven Archiv in Bonn. He is editor-composer of a volume of organ chorale preludes (1984), and co-editor of the recently published Afrikaans-English Music Dictionary (Pharos 2000). He also contributed articles for the latest editions of both The New Grove Dictionary of Music(2000) and Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2001), and recently compiled a book publication (SunMedia 2005) as part of the Konservatorium’s centenary festivities (1905-2005).
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