Birgit Lodes#
| Membership Number: | 3684 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://musikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/institut/personalverzeichnis/lodes |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004–present Full Professor in Historical Musicology at the University of Vienna; 2006–08 department head
- winter 2003/04 Offers of professorships from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (C3) and from the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (C4): not accepted
- 2003–2004 Assistant Professor („Oberassistentin“) at the University of Munich
- Winter 2002/03 Guest Professor at the University of Vienna
- Summer 2002 Guest Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 1994–2003 Assistant at the University of Munich
- 1995–98 Lecturer (part time) at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Late Medieval and Renaissance music: sources/media, musical life in central Europe, Josquin, Obrecht, Senfl, German composers around 1500
- Beethoven (esp. late compositions, vocal music, creative process, musical network to contemporaries)
- History of vocal music (both secular and sacred) in the long 19th century
- Richard Strauss, esp. songs and instrumental music
- Questions of music historiography and current methods in musicology
Honours and Awards
- 2013 – 2015 Head of research project "The Music Library of Maximilian Franz, Elector of Cologne: an identification and analysis of its surviving music-dramatic sources, 1780–1794" (two full-time researchers)
- 2011 – 2015 Head of research project "Musical Life of the late Middle Ages in the Austrian Region" (two researchers)
- 2008 Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2008 – 2014 Head of research project "Ludwig Senfl – A catalogue raisonné of the works and sources" (two full-time researchers)
- 2006 "Stiftung Maximilianeum/Wittelsbacher Jubiläumsstiftung", member of the board of trustees
- 1998-2001 Grant of the Bavarian Ministry for Education and Research in Support of Work on an Inaugural Dissertation ("Habilitation")
- 1998 Prize for exceptional Achievements in Teaching („Preis für herausragende Leistungen in der Lehre“), endowed by the Society of Friends and Promoters of the University of Munich
- 1995 Dissertation Prize of the University of Munich
- 1993/94 Doctoral Scholarship of the State of Bavaria
- 1992/93 Doctoral Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Association (DAAD)
- August 1986–present Member in the "Stiftung Maximilianeum/Wittelsbacher Jubiläumsstiftung" (foundation for highly gifted students)
