Ivana Rentsch

Ivana Rentsch (* 1974 in Olten ) is a Swiss musicologist and professor at the University of Hamburg .

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Rentsch studied musicology , media studies and linguistics at the University of Zurich . From 2000, she worked for five years as a research assistant and assistant at the Musicological Institute of the University of Bern . In 2004 she received her doctorate with her work on Bohuslav Martinů's operas from the interwar period. In 2005 she was granted a research grant at the Austrian universities of Graz and Salzburg for the project Der Tanz in der Score ( Swiss National Fund ).

From 2006 to 2013 Rentsch was an assistant at the Musicological Institute of the University of Zurich. She completed her habilitation there in 2010 with her study on the importance of dance for instrumental music and music theory in the early modern period. At the same time, she was teaching at the universities of Basel , Bern , Friborg and Graz. Rentsch has been Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Hamburg since 2013 .

She is married to the musicologist Arne Stollberg .

Research and publication focus

Rentsch is co-editor of the journal Die Musikforschung and a member of the scientific advisory board of both the Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition (Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Prague, Bärenreiter-Verlag ) and the Recherche sur la musique française XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles. Nouvelle série and the magazine Musicologica slovaca ( Slovak Academy of Sciences ).

Publications (selection)

• Echoes of the avant-garde: Bohuslav Martinů's operas from the interwar period (= supplements to the Archives for Musicology , vol. 61), Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007.
• The poetry of the opera. Bohuslav Martinus theater aesthetics as an alternative to musical drama , in: Bohuslav Martinu special volume. Music concepts. New episode . Edited by Ulrich Tadday, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86916-017-7

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dataset of the DNB

Web links

• Ivana Rentsch - University of Hamburg
• Ivana Rentsch in the WorldCat