Andres Briner

Andres Briner (31 May 1923 – 1 June 2014) was a Swiss musicologist, music historian, academic, music critic, and art journalist

Life Andres Briner was born in Zürich, Switzerland on 31 May 1923. He initially studied at the Zurich Conservatory;

He worked with Rolf Liebermann at the Zurich Radio Studio from 1953 to 1955, after which he went to the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught until 1964. In 1995 he was the recipient of Yale University's Briner Certificate of Merit for his contributions to Hindemith scholarship.

Honours 2006: Honorary Doctorate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zürich.

Publications Der Wandel der Musik als Zeitkunst. Universal Edition, Vienna 1955 (Dissertation, Universität Zürich, 1953, als Versuch über die musikalische Zeitgestalt und ihre Wandlung in der europäischen Musik seit der mensuralen Mehrstimmigkeit). Paul Hindemith. Atlantis, Zürich und Freiburg, 1971. with Giselher Schubert, Dieter Rexroth: Paul Hindemith. Leben und Werk in Bild und Text. Schott, Mainz 1988.In Italian: Paul Hindemith. Vita e opere. DeFerrari, Genua 1995. Musikalische Koexistenz. Editor Giselher Schubert. With a foreword by Hermann Danuser. Schott, Mainz 1993.