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Matthias Moosdorf(born 1965) is a Germancellistand politician (Alternative für Deutschland).

Life

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Music

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Born inLeipzig,Moosdorf is the son of the Leipzig violinistOtto-Georg Moosdorf.[1]After theBerufsausbildung mit Abitur[de],he studied at theUniversity of Music and Theatre LeipzigwithJürnjakob Timm,Wolfgang WeberandGerhard Bosse.In 1991, he passed theKonzertexamenand was an assistant at the Leipzig University of Music until 1996, where he subsequently held a teaching position for violoncello andchamber musicuntil 2006.[2]

Moosdorf was a member of theLeipzig String Quartetfrom 1988 to 2019, with whom he recorded over 120 CDs and gave guest performances in 60 countries. At the same time, he was principal cellist at the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra from 1991 to 2001. From 2006 to 2014, he played in the "Ex Aequo" trio with Gerald Fauth (piano) andMatthias Wollong(violin), and since 2007 in theEcco (!)Trio with Olga Gollej (piano) andKarl Leister(clarinet). Until 2018, he wasartistic directorof the music series "Musique aux Salles de Pologne". He plays on a cello byAndrea Guarnerifrom 1697.[2]

Politics

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In September 2016, Moosdorf joined theAlternative for Germanyparty. Within the party, he was initially considered a close confidant of party leaderFrauke Petryand her husbandMarcus Pretzell,at whose wedding celebration he took part in December 2016. He wrote texts for Petry's blog "Der Blaue Kanal" and acted as an advisor to the AfD parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament.[1]In March 2017, music criticArno Lückerreported critically on Moosdorf's political engagement and statements, which Lücker characterised asright-wing populism,in the music blog of theNeue Musikzeitung.[3][4]After a rift with Petry and Pretzell, Moosdorf turned to the right wing of the party.[5]

Together withMichael Klonovsky[de]he campaigned for the establishment of a party-affiliated foundation of the AfD under the name "Gustav-Stresemann-Stiftung". Since around January 2018, Moosdorf has been a research assistant to the Bavarian AfD member of the BundestagMartin Hebner.[6][7]He was one of the first signatories of theErklärung 2018against "illegal mass immigration".[8]In August 2018, in a blog commentary, he accused the former pastor of Leipzig'sThomaskirche,Christian Wolff[de]he had "brought on the way from the unspeakable pulpit" that now "[e]very day" doctors were "murdered early in their office hours [...] by migrants" and girls were "raped and killed". A criminal complaint by Wolff against Moosdorf fordefamationwas not pursued by the Leipzig public prosecutor's office. According to reports by theRedaktionsNetzwerk DeutschlandandDie Zeitin November 2018, Moosdorf was the main person responsible for the AfD campaign against theGlobal Compact for Migration.[9][10]

Publication

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  • Ludwig van Beethoven. Die Streichquartette.Bärenreiter2007,ISBN978-3-7618-2108-4

References

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  1. ^abInge Kloepfer:Wut, Bürger.InFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,9 April 2017, p. 22.
  2. ^abLebenslauf Matthias Moosdorfon the web site of the Leipzig Stringquartet, retrieved 23 March 2021.
  3. ^Arno Lücker:Right-wing-populism-and-classical-music III - Matthias Moosdorf (musician in the Leipzig String Quartet)InBadBlog Of Musick,Neue Musikzeitung, 12 March 2017.
  4. ^Claus Fischer:Rechtspopulismus in der Klassikszene.Deutschlandfunk,SendungMusikjournal,27 March 2017.
  5. ^Henriette Jedicke:Strippenzieher mit Verbindung zur extremen Rechten – Das sind die radikalen AfD-Hintermänner.InFocus(online), 22 March 2018.
  6. ^Matthias Kamann:html AfD expert opinion advises party against naming foundation after StresemannInDie Welt(online), 1 March 2018.
  7. ^Nicola Abé among others (8 December 2018). "The Sleepwalkers".Der Spiegel(50/2018): 16.
  8. ^Jan Sternberg:Tellkamp, Sarrazin, Broder: "Declaration 2018" occupies right-wing positions.InLeipziger Volkszeitung(online), 20 March 2018.
  9. ^Jan Sternberg (20 November 2018)."Ein Leipziger Cellist steckt hinter der Anti-Migrationspakt-Kampagne"(in German). Archived fromthe originalon 26 November 2020.Retrieved23 March2021.
  10. ^Mariam Lau,Mark Schieritz,Michael Thumann:Migrationspakt – Unter keinem guten Stern.InDie Zeit,No. 49/2018, 29 November 2018.
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