Winfried Lüdemann
Winfried Lüdemann is an Professor of Musicology and Chair of the Department. He is a graduate of the University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, where he studied musicology, organ and trombone, gaining the degrees BMus (1974), BMus Hons (1975) and MMus (1981). In 1975 he played first trombone in the South African National Youth Orchestra on its European tour.
After two years as music teacher in Empangeni and Durban and free-lancing as trombonist he was appointed as a temporary lecturer in Musicology at Free State University in 1978. Simultaneously he joined the PACOFS Symphony Orchestra as second trombonist.
In 1979 he began to teach Musicology at Stellenbosch University, becoming an associate professor in 2002. His doctoral dissertation was completed in 1988 (US). On two occasions he furthered his studies at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, University of Hamburg, Germany (1982 and 1991), while conducting research at the Hugo-Distler-Archiv in Lübeck. Prof. Lüdemann is a member of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung and the Musicological Society of Southern Africa. He served the latter as Chairman for three consecutive terms, between 1995 and 2004.
His publications include a chapter on Roelof Temmingh in the book Composers in South Africa Today (OUP), contributions to the New Grove 2nd Edition and the new Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, as well as research articles in the South African Journal of Musicology, the South African Journal of Philosophy, Der Kirchenmusiker, Musik und Kirche, Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe and a report on Musicology in South Africa in Current Musicology. His biography on Hugo Distler, published in Augsburg, Germany in 2002, is the most extensive study of this German composer to date.
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