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{{short description|German choir director and musicologist}}
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'''Emil Platen''' (born 16 September 1925) is a German [[musicologist]] and [[Conducting|conductor]].
== Life ==
Born in [[Düsseldorf]], Platen received his first music lessons at the Jugendmusikschule Düsseldorf in the disciplines violin and music theory/composition (with [[Max Reger|Reger]]'s student Otto Leonhardt). After work and military service (1943–45) he enrolled in 1946 at the [[University of Cologne]] in the subject musicology, changed in 1947 to the [[Hochschule für Musik Detmold]], where he studied composition with {{Ill|Wilhelm Maler|de}}, viola with Hermann Hirschfelder and choral conducting with [[Kurt Thomas (composer)|Kurt Thomas]]. After his examination as a choral conductor, he resumed his musicological studies at the [[University of Bonn]] in 1951, which he completed in 1957 with a [[dissertation]] on the "Chorische Choralbearungen von Joh. Bach" which won him his [[doctorate]]. During his studies he worked as a violist in various ensembles in Bonn and at [[Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln]]. Further stages in his professional career were: 1959 research assistant at the [[Beethoven-Haus#Beethoven-Archiv|Beethoven-Archiv Bonn]], 1963 academic [[music director]] and 1971 honorary professor for musicology at the University of Bonn. In 1969 he founded the North Rhine-Westphalia Youth Symphony Orchestra together with Hans-Josef Menke. After his retirement, he was a [[lecturer]] for music history at the [[Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln]] from 1994 to 2003.
With the {{Ill|Forum Musik und Tanz der Universität Bonn|de}}, which he himself founded in 1953, he undertook numerous concert tours in Europe and overseas. His research focuses on the theory of [[musical form]]s and the works of J. S. Bach and L. van Beethoven.
== Publications ==
* ''Untersuchungen zur Struktur der chorischen Choralbearbeitung Johann Sebastian Bachs'',<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OCoYAQAAIAAJ&q=Untersuchungen+zur+Struktur+der+chorischen+Choralbearbeitung+Johann+Sebastian+Bachs ''Untersuchungen zur Struktur der chorischen Choralbearbeitung Johann Sebastian Bachs''] on Google books</ref> Diss. Bonn 1957,
* ''Die Matthäus-Passion von Johann Sebastian Bach. Werkeinführung'',<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lg0ZSQAACAAJ&q=Die+Matth%C3%A4us-Passion+von+Johann+Sebastian+Bach.+Werkeinf%C3%BChrung ''Johann Sebastian Bach, Die Matthäus-Passion''] on Google books</ref> Munich and Kassel 1991, 4. verb. u. erg. Aufl. 2012
* ''Bachs lutherische Messen''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5ksnvwEACAAJ ''Bachs lutherische Messen''] on Google books</ref>
* ''Studien zu Bach und Beethoven'', Chemnitz 2000.
* ''Ludwig van Beethoven'', ed. of several volumes of the Urtext edition and complete edition. Munich: Henle
== Literature ==
* Martella Gutiérrez-Denhoff (ed.): ''Collegium Musicologicum. Festschrift Emil Platen zum Sechzigsten Geburtstag.'' Beethoven-Archiv, Bonn 1985.
* Bernhard Hartmann: ''Der Bonner Musikwissenschaftler Emil Platen wird 90 Jahre.'' [http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/bonn/bonn/bonn-zentrum/der-bonner-musikwissenschaftler-emil-platen-wird-90-jahre-article1723847.html ''General-Anzeiger.'' Bonn], 16 September 2015.
== Sources ==
* ''[[Riemann Musiklexikon]]'', Supplementary volume, personal part, Mainz 1975
* Honegger-Massenkeil, ''Das Große Lexikon der Musik'', vol. 6, Freiburg 1976
* ''[[Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart]]'', 2nd edition, personal part
* ''Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender''
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