Prof. Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann

  

 

Tel. +49 69 8300479 200
Email: melanie.wald-fuhrmann@ae.mpg.de
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Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
Co-opted Professor for Systematic Musicology 

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Curriculum Vitae

Academic Education

2009 Habilitation, University of Zurich (Melancholy in instrumental music around 1800, published 2010)
2005 Dr.phil., University of Zurich (Athanasius Kircher´s “Musurgia universalis”, published 2006)
1997–2002   Musicology and classics (Greek) at the universities of Rostock, Marburg, Salzburg (Austria) and FU Berlin (M.A. from Berlin)

Career

Since 2013 Director of the Music Department, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
2011–13 Professor for Sociology and Historical Anthropology of Music at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2010/11 Professor for Musicology at the Musikhochschule Lübeck
2003–2010   Research assistant and assistant professor at the Institute of Musicology in Zurich (Switzerland)

Further information

Research Interests

  • Aesthetics of music (historical, transcultural and empirical perspectives)
  • Musical taste
  • Music and meaning
  • Music practices and music cultures from the Renaissance to the early 19th century
  • History of musicology

Recent Projects

  • Lexicon of Writings on Music
  • Survey on musical taste in Germany
  • Concert Research
  • Musicovid – An International Research Network
  • The history of German speaking musicology from ca. 1810 to ca. 1990

Further projects

Teaching

Selected Publications

Wald-Fuhrmann, M., Dannecker, K. P., & Boenneke, S. (Eds.). (2020). Wirkungsästhetik der Liturgie: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet.

Fuhrmann, W. & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (2013). Ahnung und Erinnerung: Die Dramaturgie der Leitmotive bei Richard Wagner. Kassel: Bärenreiter, Berlin: Henschel.

Wald-Fuhrmann, M. & Pietschmann, K. (Eds.). (2013). Der Kanon der Musik: Theorie und Geschichte. Ein Handbuch. München: edition text + kritik.

Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (2010)."Ein Mittel wider sich selbst.": Melancholie in der Instrumentalmusik um 1800. Kassel: Bärenreiter. (Habilitationsschrift).

Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (2006). Welterkenntnis aus Musik. Athanasius Kirchers "Musurgia universalis" und die Universalwissenschaft im 17. Jahrhundert (Schweizer Beiträge zur Musikforschung 4). Kassel: Bärenreiter. (Dissertation).

Complete list of publications