In 1996 he succeeded Gerhard Croll[4] ordinary university professor for historical musicology and head of the department of art, music and dance studies at the University of Salzburg. Together with Claudia Jeschke, he expanded the institute in 2004.[4] The Salzburg activities ended with his retirement in 2010
He is also active as an author and music critic (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Berliner Zeitung and since 1992 for the Falter[5]). From 1975 to 1983 he was editor of the Schweizer Musikzeitung and from 1983 to 1992 co-editor of Contrechamps and Musica/Realtà.[1] He is considered a patron of new music,[1] so he was congress organizer in Boswil[2] from 1982 to 1988 and from 1985 on director of the concert series (Festival Belluard Bollwerk International (1985 to 1990) and Musiques du treizième Siècle (in the Kunsthalle of the Fri Art – Centre d'art contemporain [de],[5] 1990 to 1994)[1] in Freiburg in the Üechtland.[2] Stenzl has been a member of the board of trustees of the Experimentalstudio des SWR [de] in Freiburg im Breisgau since 1992,[4] of which he is vice president.[5] In 1994 he was programme consultant of the Donaueschinger Musiktage.[2] From 2003 to 2005 he was chairman of the Salzburg State Cultural Advisory Board, of which he has been a member since 1998.[4] In 2006 he conceived the counterpoint concerts at the Salzburg Easter Festival.[5] He also worked as a production dramaturge.[5] Stenzl is a former member of the Central Institute for Mozart Research of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg.[6]
Stenzl has been married to Nike Wagner, a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner,[4] since 1991 and lives mainly in Vienna since his retirement.[3]
Awards
1986: Liszt Memorial Plaque of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education in recognition of the contributions to the research of the music of Franz Liszt and Béla Bartók.[7]
Publications
Author
Die Vierzig Clausulae der Handschrift Paris, Bibliothèque nationale latin 15139: Saint-Victor Clausulae. Dissertation. Haupt, Bern/ Stuttgart 1970.
Von Giacomo Puccini zu Luigi Nono. Italienische Musik 1922–1952. Faschismus – Resistenza – Republik. Knuf, Buren 1990, ISBN90-6027-639-6.
with A. T. Schaefer: Die Jahre der Oper 1996 bis 2001 – die Oper des Jahres 1998, 1999, 2000. Ed. Staatsoper Stuttgart. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 2001, ISBN3-87448-217-0.
Der Klang des Song of Songs – Vertonungen des "Canticum canticorum" vom 9. bis zum Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN978-3-8260-3694-1.
Jean-Luc Godard – musicien. Die Musik in den Filmen von Jean-Luc Godard, text + Kritik, Munich 2010.
Das Virgil-Offizium Pangens chorus dulce Melos, in Irene Holzer: Die zwei Salzburger Rupertus-Offizien Eia laude condigna und Hodie posito corpora, volume 6 of the series Salzburger Stier, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012. ISBN3826048563
Auf der Suche nach Geschichte(n) der musikalischen Interpretation, volume 7 of the series Salzburger Stier, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012.
Musik für über 1500 Stummfilme. Musique pour plus de 1500 films muets. Music for more than 1500 silent films. Das Inventar der Filmmusik im Pariser Gaumont-Palace (1911–1928) von Paul Fosse. (Filmwissenschaft. Band 18). Lit-Verlag, Münster 2017, ISBN978-3-643-50800-3.
Editor
Carla Henius und Luigi Nono. Briefe, Tagebücher, Notizen. Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1995, ISBN3-434-50071-5.
Orchester Kultur. Variationen über ein halbes Jahrhundert. Aus Anlass des 50. Geburtstages des SWF-Sinfonieorchesters. Metzler, Stuttgart/ Weimar 1996, ISBN3-476-01500-9.
Alessandro Besozzi. Sechs Trios für Oboe oder Violine, Violine und Violoncello oder Fagott, Amadeus-Verlag, Winterthur 1997
with Ernst Hintermaier und Gerhard Walterskirchen: Salzburger Musikgeschichte. Von Mittelalter bis ins 21. Jahrhundert. Pustet, Salzburg 2005, ISBN3-7025-0511-3.
with Lars E. Laubhold: Herbert von Karajan 1908–1989. Der Dirigent im Lichte einer Geschichte der musikalischen Interpretation. Pustet, Salzburg 2008, ISBN978-3-7025-0583-7.
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