Friedemann Brennecke, born in 1988, studied music theory and composition in Hamburg, Paris, Freiburg and Essen. After teaching in Mainz, Bremen, Münster, Düsseldorf and Essen, he has been Professor of Music Theory at the University of Music Würzburg since the winter semester 2024/25.
His research focuses on the music of the 17th century. He is particularly interested in historical and contemporary improvisation for university teaching.
In addition to chamber music works, he has also composed music for dance theater, historical instruments and a chamber opera.

Publications and lectures

• Lemmata on "Polyphonie" and "Kantionalsatz" in the Lexikon des Barock (Handbuch der Musik des Barock 8), Laaber-Verlag.
• "'Screaming sounds' - on the early history of the excessive triad. Detailstudien zu den Geistlichen Konzerten Samuel Scheidts", in: 'Klang': Wundertüte oder Stiefkind der Musiktheorie. 16th Annual Congress of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH) Hannover 2016, ed. by Britta Giesecke von Bergh, Volker Helbing, Sebastian Knappe and Sören Sönksen, 69-88, 2020.
• "Robert Schumann's poetization of craft norms using the example of the fifth fall sequence". Lecture together with Michael Koch for the annual congress of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 2019.
• "Quinta superflua und Quarta deficiens - Der übermäßige Dreiklang und seine 'Verwechslungen' in Theorie und musikalischer Praxis des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts" Master's thesis at the Folkwang University of the Arts, 2017 folkwang-uni.academia.edu/FriedemannBrennecke.