Gundula cruiser

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Gundula Katharina Kreuzer (born April 4, 1975 in Hamburg ) is a German musicologist . She is one of the leading international researchers on Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner as well as on the historical role of opera in the 19th century .

life and work

Kreuzer is the daughter of the legal scholar and criminologist Arthur Kreuzer . She studied musicology , philosophy and modern history at the University of Münster and Oxford University , where she received her PhD in musicology in 2004. She then received a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College , Oxford, and in 2005 became an associate professor at Yale University . She is also a contributor to the new Verdi Complete Edition at the Center for Italian Opera Studies at the University of Chicago .

In her first book Verdi and the Germans (2010), a monograph on Verdi's reception in Germany , she presented the changing role of the Italian composer in German musical life, especially during the Weimar Republic . She examined the effect of his operas on German national sentiment and how Verdi was co-opted for National Socialist ideology. In doing so, she showed, for example, that during National Socialism it was not Richard Wagner who was the most popular composer, but Giuseppe Verdi . She has published several times on Wagnerian Technologies . She sees the stage technology of the Wagner operas in the 19th century as an early form of multimedia . New technological developments of the industrial revolution , such as the generation of steam in the staging of the opera tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen , made Wagner's aesthetic of transcendence possible.

For her monograph Verdi and the Germans as well as for other of her work, she has received several prizes , especially in the USA .

Awards (selection)

  • 2000: Paul A. Pisk Prize of the American Musicological Society,
  • 2005 Jerome Roche Prize from the Royal Musical Association
  • 2006: Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society
  • 2010: Yale University's Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication
  • 2011: Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society
  • 2012: Gaddis Smith International Book Prize from the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University
  • 2013: Martin Chusid Award for Verdi Studies from New York University

Fonts (selection)

  • Back to Verdi: The 'Verdi Renaissance' and Musical Culture in the Weimar Republic . In: Studi verdiani , Volume 13 (1998), pp. 117-154
  • Opera in church clothes? Verdi's Requiem and the Anxieties of the Young German Empire . In: Journal of the American Musicological Society , Vol. 58, No. 2 (Summer 2005), pp. 399-449
  • Deception on Stage: Don Carlos di Vargas and Franz Werfel ’s Politics of Operatic Translation . In: Nikolaus Bacht (Ed.): Music, Theater and Politics in Germany, 1850–1950 . Ashgate, Aldershot 2006, pp. 137-157
  • Voices from Beyond: Don Carlos and Modern Director . In: Cambridge Opera Journal , Vol. 18 (2006), pp. 151-179
  • Authenticity, visualization, preservation: the traveling “Wagner theater” and the preservability of productions . In: Robert Sollich, Clemens Risi, Sebastian Reus, Stephan Jöris (eds.): Fear of destruction. The master arts between archive and renewal . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2008, pp. 139–160 (= research , volume 52)
  • Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-51919-9
  • Dahlhaus , Rossini and the 19th century opera . In: Hermann Danuser , Tobias Plebuch (ed.): Carl Dahlhaus and musicology. Work, effect, topicality . Edition Argus, Schliengen 2011, pp. 132–141
  • Wagnerdampf: Steam in Der Ring des Nibelungen and Operatic Production . In: The Opera Quarterly , Vol. 27, No. 2/3 (Spring-Summer 2011), pp. 179-218
  • Holy Trias, Stylisticism, Beethoven: Limits of Nineteenth-Century Germanic Music Historiography . In: Nicholas Mathew, Benjamin Walton (Eds.): The Age of Rossini and Beethoven . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, pp. 66-95
  • Venus as Wagner . In: Clemens Risi u. a. (Ed.): Tannhäuser - workshop of feelings . Rombach, Freiburg 2014, pp. 159–176

Sheet music editions (selection)

  • The Works of Giuseppe Verdi , Series V: Instrumental Chamber Music , ed. by Gundula Kreuzer ( string quartet in E minor ; Romance sans paroles ; album sheet for Florimo ; waltz ), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press and Milan: Ricordi, 2010, ISBN 978-0-226-85301-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gundula Kreuzer, Wagnerdampf: Steam in Der Ring des Nibelungen and Operatic Production , in: The Opera Quarterly , Vol. 27, No. 2/3 (Spring-Summer 2011), pp. 179-218
  2. ^ Paul A. Pisk Prize , List of Prize Winners
  3. ↑ Reasons given by the jury ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rma.ac.uk
  4. ^ Lewis Lockwood Award , list of winners
personal data
SURNAME Cruiser, Gundula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cruiser, Gundula Katharina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg