Joachim Kaiser
German music critic (1928–2017)
Joachim Kaiser (18 December 1928 – 11 May 2017) was a German musicologist, critic, and journalist. He worked as a senior editor and cultural critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung from 1959, contributing reviews and articles on music, literature, and theatre. From 1977 to 1996, he was a professor of music history at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart.
Life
Kaiser was born in Milken, East Prussia (now Milki, Poland) on 18 December 1928. He was the son of a country doctor. He became interested in Literature and music at an early age, and began to play the piano at age eight. After the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe 1945–1950, he attended the Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Hamburg). He then studied musicology, German studies, philosophy, and sociology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, and the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Among his fellow students were musicologists Carl Dahlhaus and Rudolf Stephan.
Kaiser's career as a critic began in 1951.
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