Werner Bodendorff


Werner Bodendorff is a German oboist, musicologist as well as a writer.

Career

Bodendorff was born in Radolfzell. After the Abitur, he studied oboe and conducting at the Leopold Mozart Centre as well as musicology, philosophy and history in Augsburg. In 1993 he received his doctorate at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. From 1994 to 2003 he was research assistant to Ernst Hilmar at the International Franz Schubert Institut in Vienna and in the, subsequently a scholarship holder of the Austrian Science Fund in Vienna. From 1998 to 2005 he was a lecturer for instrumental instruction at the Werner-Egk-Musikschule in Donauwörth. From winter semester 2000 to summer semester 2004 he simultaneously held a teaching position for music history at the Hochschule für Musik in Augsburg.
Bodendorff is currently working as music critic of the Kieler Nachrichten, freelance publicist and conductor of the Symphony Orchestra in Plön. He is also a freelance reviewer, essayist, author of scientific articles and fiction books, especially on Franz Schubert, Werner Egk and the history of wind music. He is the author of numerous encyclopaedia articles and short biographies, editor of Schubert's and Salieri's church music works at Carus-Verlag and is also active as a musician and arranger.

Books and editions on Franz Schubert