Background
Brinkmann was born in Wildeshausen and studied at Freiburg im Breisgau.
musicologist university professor
Brinkmann was born in Wildeshausen and studied at Freiburg im Breisgau.
His dissertation was about Arnold Schönberg"s Klavierstücke operation 11. He started working on the faculty of Freie Universität Berlin in 1970. From 1972 to 1980 he taught at Philipps-Universität Marburg, and then until 1985 again in Berlin, at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
Since 1985 he has taught at Harvard University.
His research has included widely diverse publications in all areas of music theory and history from the 18th to the 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects.
In 2006 he was elected Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society.