Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann#
Foto: Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik
| Membership Number: | 4687 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/the-institute/people/melanie-wald-fuhrmann.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 founding director of the Music Department of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
- 2011 - 2013 Professor of Music Sociology and Historical Music Anthropology, Humboldt University Berlin
- 2010 - 2011 Professor of Musicology, Musikhochschule Lübeck
- 2003 - 2010 Academic Assistant, then Assistant Professor, Institute of Musicology, University of Zürich. (Ph. D. 2005, Habilitation 2009)
Fields of Scholarship
- Aesthetics of music (historical, transcultural and empirical perspectives)
- Sociology and anthropology of music
- Music practices and music cultures from the Renaissance to the early 19th century
- History of musicology
- Music and meaning
Honours and Awards
- 2015 elected full Member of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft of the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt
- 2015 elected corresponding Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz
- 2015 elected Member of the Centre for Classical Research, Weimar
- 2015 Marsilius Medal, Marsilius Kolleg of Heidelberg University
- 2009 Max Weber Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 2009 Hermann Abert Prize of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung
