MusikTexte Online

With a total of 178 print issues over the last forty years, the magazine MusikTexte has built up a unique and multi-layered international archive of discourses, interviews, analyses, commentaries, portraits, appreciations, obituaries, reviews and festival reports on new music. With curiosity, openness and a critical eye, the text-heavy MusikTexte, which is interspersed with musical examples, is aimed at a sophisticated specialist audience. Thanks to Gisela Gronemeyer’s many years of work, the magazine is also characterised by a remarkably high level of content, professional journalistic craftsmanship, important and accurate translations, precise emphasis and a love of linguistic detail. On 9 April 2023, the magazine’s founder, editor, publicist and publisher Gisela Gronemeyer died unexpectedly, and with volume 177/178, the print edition of MusikTexte came to an end.

At the beginning of 2024, the MusikTexte association was founded in Cologne. The purpose of this association is to ‘promote thinking, speaking and writing about contemporary music as well as to support young talent in this field’. In awareness of the magazine’s uniqueness and importance for the new music scene in German-speaking countries and beyond, the association is to enable MusikTexte to be continued in a new form as a newsletter and online platform, in contrast to the print edition. The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is supporting this project.

The association’s efforts are focused on two main objectives: making the 178 print issues of MusikTexte accessible as an online archive, and publishing current text contributions, podcasts and other audio and video formats on MusikTexte Online, while simultaneously interlinking new contributions with selected articles from the MusikTexte archive.

The texts, reviews and reports will consistently pursue MusikTexte’s editorial focus. In addition, there will be formats that approach contemporary music in different ways (audio, video, animation, graphics and more). MusikTexte’s profile – sophisticated content at a linguistically high level for a specialist audience, independent of publishers, international and open – will continue to be actively cultivated.

Further information:
musiktexte.de