Claus Raab (1943 – 14 October 2012) was a German musicologist and university scholar.

Life

Born in Herrieden ( Mittelfranken), Raab studied historical and comparative musicology and philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1970 he received his doctorate in drum music about the Hausa people in North-West-Nigeria and in 1972 became a lecturer at the Folkwang University of the Arts. In 2008 he retired and died in Essen.

Publications

• Trommelmusik der Hausa in Nord-West-Nigeria, ^[1] Munich: Renner, 1970
• Folkwang: Geschichte einer Idee; Musik, Tanz, Theater, ^[2] Wilhelmshaven: Noetzel, 1994
• Beethovens Kunst der Sonate. Die drei letzten Klaviersonaten op. 109, 110, 111 und ihr Thema, ^[3] Saarbrücken: Pfau, 1996
• Merkwürdige Geschichten und Gestalten um einen Walzer: Ludwig van Beethovens " Diabelli Variations op. 120 und ihre Verbindung zu Graphik und Literatur, ^[4] Saarbrücken: Pfau, 1999
• Das Beethoven-Lexikon, ^[5] edited by Claus Raab and Heinz von Loesch, Laaber 2008

References

External links

• Literature by and about Claus Raab in the German National Library catalogue
• Nachruf auf der Website der Folkwang Universität der Künste