Eva Badura-Skoda

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Eva Badura-Skoda (born Eva Halfar, born January 15, 1929 in Munich ) is a German-Austrian musicologist .

biography

Eva Halfar studied piano and viola d'amore at the Vienna Conservatory and studied musicology, philosophy and art history at the universities of Regensburg , Heidelberg , Vienna (with Erich Schenk ) and Innsbruck . There she received her doctorate in 1953 with the dissertation Studies on the History of Music Education in Austria in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries .

In 1951 she married the pianist and musicologist Paul Badura-Skoda , with whom she also worked on the books Mozart Interpretation (1957, last fundamentally revised version 2008) and Bach Interpretation (1990).

In 1962 and 1963 she gave courses at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg . In 1964 she was the Brittingham Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where she was Professor of Musicology from 1966 to 1974. She was visiting professor at Boston University (1976), Queen's University in Kingston , Ontario (1979), McGill University in Montreal (1981–1982), and the University of Göttingen (1982–1983).

In 1986 she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art .

Eva Badura-Skoda contributed numerous articles on piano music, piano construction, opera history of the 18th century, and iconographic and biographical studies of books and reviews in academic journals, and she edited compositions by Haydn , Dittersdorf , Mozart and Schubert .

With Peter Branscombe , she edited a volume on questions of style and chronology for Schubert. She also edited the report of the International Haydn Congress she organized herself (Vienna 1982), and she was also one of the editors of the volume Schubert and his friends (report on the Schubert Conference Vienna 1997).

Her book Interpreting Mozart, written together with Paul Badura-Skoda, is a detailed study of issues relating to the musical text and performance-related backgrounds, which are of great relevance for pianists who deal with the interpretation of Mozart's piano music.

The Badura-Skoda couple have four children, including the youngest son Michael Badura, a pianist who died in 2001 at the age of 37 and a former duo partner of Rico Gulda .

Fonts (selection)

Authorship

  • With Paul Badura-Skoda : Mozart interpretation. Wancura, Vienna / Stuttgart 1957 and Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1957. 2nd revised edition 1996
    • English: London 1962; Interpreting Mozart: the performance of his piano pieces and other compositions. 2nd Edition. Routledge, New York / London 2008. (With 1 CD-ROM.)
    • Russian: Moscow 1972; Italian: Padua 1981, French: Paris 1995.
  • With Paul Badura-Skoda: Bach interpretation. Laaber 1990.
    • English 1992.

Editing

  • With Peter Branscombe : Schubert studies: problems of style and chronology. Cambridge University Press, 1982, ISBN 0521226066 .
  • Report on the International Joseph Haydn Congress, Vienna, Hofburg, 5. – 12. September 1982. Henle, Munich 1986.
  • With various editors: Schubert and his friends. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Badura-Skoda, Badura-Skoda, Eva. In: Ludwig Finscher (ed.): The music in history and present , person part , Volume 1, Kassel 1999, pp. 1610–1612.
  2. ^ Message in: Neue Musikzeitung , edition 11/2001, accessed on December 28, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Badura-Skoda, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halfar, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich