English:Herman Sabbe (Q533468)

Born in Bruges, Belgium, on August 24th 1937. Music studies ('cello, chamber music, theory) at the Bruges Conservatoire and at the Mozarteum Salzburg. During the sixties numerous first performances and recordings of contemporary solo and ensemble works (also electro-instrumental). Is the dedicatee of a dozen works.
University studies in Ghent: Law Doctorate (1960) and Ph. D. in Musicology (1975) with a dissertation on Musical Serialism, published Ghent 1977 as: "Het Muzikale Serialisme als Techniek en als Denkmethode".
Part-time professor of musicology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1980-2002), and full-time professor at Ghent University (1984-2003); in that capacity author of several syllabi on music history and theory; also Director of the Institute of Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM)(1986-94), chairman of the Arts Department (1995-2002), and 'ombudsman' of the Faculty of Philosophy (1995-98). Visiting Professor in, i. a. , Montreal, Sao Paulo, Lisboa, Alcala de Henares, Seoul, Aix-en-Provence.
Chairman of several international symposia in Ghent, Brussels, Amsterdam. Founder-editor of Documenta Musicae Novae, Ghent, 1968-80; Co-Founder (1972) and editor (-2004) of Journal of New Music Research (formerly INTERFACE); editor of several special issues, on New Music Notation (1975) (with Kurt Stone and Gerald Warfield), on Composer-Society/Komponist und Gesellschaft/Le Compositeur dans la Société, commissioned by the E. E. C. (1983); guest editor of special issues for the Revue Belge de Musicology, on Henri Pousseur, on Lucien Goethals (with Phillipe Sioen and Dirk Moelants); co-editor of Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift(1972-82); consulting editor of Musicae Scientiae (1999-). Music critic for Kunst-en Cultuuragenda (K & C), Brussels, 1968-82.
West-Flanders literary Prize for an essay on "Arnold Schoenberg - Revolutie of Evolutie?" (1961), published in De Vlaamse Gids (1962); Laureate of the Belgian Academy (1976), and a member since 1999; Winner of the Crescendo Prize of the Flemish Music Council (1990)
Co-Founder of the (new) Belgian Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM); Vice-President of the Belgian National Music Council (1970-74).
Author of the multimedia spectacle "HE. . . !" (music by Karel Goeyvaerts and Lucien Goethals), performed at the Flanders Festival 1971, in Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp.
Published extensively on 19th and 20th c. Western 'classical' music (history, theory, aesthetics, sociology), with special emphasis on New Music in the second half of the 20th c., in Dutch, French, German and English, with translations in 7 other languages; monographies on Stockhausen: "Wie die Zeit verging", Musik-Konzepte 19 (eds. H. K. Metzger and R. Riehn), Munich 1981, and on Ligeti: "Studien zur kompositorischen Phänomenologie", Musik-Konzepte 53, id. ibid., 1987, also in Hungarian translation, Budapest 1993; author of illustrated handbooks on Romanticism ('Wereld in Beeld' 1), Brussels, 1977, and on Dadaism (Wereld in Beeld 3), Brussels-The Hague 1979; co-author of a book on Expressionism, and of De Nieuwe Muziek in Vlaanderen (with Mark Delaere and Yves Knockaert), Bruges, 1998; author of "All that Music" (a sociology of Western music culture), Louvain 1996, 2nd edition 1997, new extended version, titled "Stilte! Muziek!", 2003; and "La Musique et l'Occident - Démocratie et Capitalisme (post-)industriel : Incidences sur l'investissement esthétique et économique en musique", Sprimont 1998. Working currently on a 'Anthropomusicology' : 'HOMO MUSICUS - on the evolutionary sense of music'.
Libri Amicorum: a special issue of 'Yang', Ghent 1979 (ed. L. Goethals); and "Onder Hoogspanning-Muziekcultuur in de hedendaagse samenleving" (ed. M. Leman), Brussels 2003.