Prof. Jörn Arnecke
Professor of Music Theory, Aural Training and Historical Music Theory (Practice)
Director of the Centre of Music Theory
Dean of Faculty III
Hochschulzentrum am Horn Room: 208
Office hours:
During the lecture-free period by appointment.
In the summer semester 2024, office hours always take place on Fridays from 11 - 12 a.m. in room 208, hzh.
Jörn Arnecke, born in Hameln in 1973, is Professor of Music Theory and Aural Training at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar, where he has headed the Centre for Music Theory since 2009; since 2019 he has been Dean of Faculty III. For the LISZT University, he oversees the series "Paraphrasen - Weimarer Beiträge zur Musiktheorie" (Georg Olms Verlag Hildesheim).
He studied composition and music theory with Volkhardt Preuß and Peter Michael Hamel at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. In 1997/98 he was one of the last students of Gérard Grisey at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris. In addition to music-theoretical publications from Dufay to Lachenmann, he has also emerged as a composer, including music-theatre works commissioned by the Hamburg State Opera (2003, 2005), the RuhrTriennale (2007), the Bremen Theatre (2011), the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg (2015) and the Weimar Art Festival (2022).
In association with the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and the University of Halle-Wittenberg, he organises the annual conference "Music Theory and Listening Education". From 2014 to 2016 he was jury chairman of the Artistic Competition of the Society for Music Theory (GMTH). He is particularly interested in the use of digital possibilities for music-theoretical tools and for mediation. In 2021, he developed a "Kantionalsatzmaschine" as part of a fellowship from the Stifterverband.