Hansjörg Pauli (3 March 1931 – 15 February 2007) was a Swiss musicologist, pianist, journalist, music critic, screenwriter, and film director.
Life and career Hansjörg Pauli was born in Winterthur, Switzerland on 3 March 1931. He studied at the Winterthur Conservatory from which he graduated in 1953. He pursued further studies in London with Hans Keller. He began working as a music critic and journalist for Swiss newspapers in 1956. One of the publications he wrote criticism for was Neues Winterthurer Tageblatt. He also worked as a jazz pianist in the 1950s.
From 1960 to 1965 Pauli worked at Radio Zürich on new music broadcasts, and between 1965 and 1968 he was a music editor for NDR-Fernsehen where he directed TV documentaries and produced films by Richard Leacock, Rolf Liebermann, Klaus Wildenhahn and others. Starting in 1968 he became a freelance writer. He joined the faculty of the University of Television and Film Munich in 1969.
Pauli was a prominent authority on the music of Luigi Nono. He also worked on films as a screenwriter and director. Films he wrote and directed himself include Webern, oder Ein Leben für die Kunst (1971–3), Strawinsky Weekend (1972–3), and Klänge machen Leute: Funktion und Mechanik von Filmmusik (1973).
Articles by Hansjörg Pauli 'On Strawinsky's Threni''', Tempo, New Series, No. 49 (Autumn, 1958), pp. 16–17+21-33 'Hans Werner Henze's Italian Music', The Score, No.25, June 1959 'Für wen komponieren Sie eigentlich?' Reihe Fischer, vol. F 16''. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1971. 'Bernard Herrmanns Musik zu Citizen Kane', Dissonance 26 (November 1990): 12–18.
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