Prof. Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann
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Tel. +49 69 8300479 200 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics |
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) |
Research Focus
- Aesthetics of music (historical, transcultural and empirical perspectives)
- Aesthetic experience of music (theoretical and empirical approaches)
- Musical taste
- Concert Research
- Music and meaning
- Sociology and anthropology of music
- 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
Teaching
- Current seminars (QIS-Server)
Selected Publications
Wald-Fuhrmann, M. & Wörner, F. (Vol.-Eds). Grimm, H., Wald-Fuhrmann, M. & Wörner, F. (Series-Eds.). 2022. Lexikon Schriften über Musik: Vol. 2. Musikästhetik in Europa und Nordamerika. Kassel: Bärenreiter/Metzler.
Wald-Fuhrmann, M., Dannecker, K. P., & Boenneke, S. (Eds.). (2020). Wirkungsästhetik der Liturgie: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet.
Scheideler, U., & Wörner, F. (Vol.-Eds.). Grimm, H., & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (Series-Eds.). (2017). Lexikon Schriften über Musik: Vol. 1. Musiktheorie von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Kassel/Stuttgart: Bärenreiter/Metzler.
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).
