Melanie Unseld

Melanie Unseld (* 1971 in Karlsruhe ) is a German musicologist and university lecturer.

Life

Unseld studied musicology , literature , philosophy and cultural studies in Karlsruhe and Hamburg. In 1996 she finished her studies with a master’s thesis on the string quartet works by Alexander Borodin , and in 1999 she received her doctorate at the University of Hamburg on the subject of death and femininity in music at the turn of the century . From 2002 to 2004 she was a scholarship holder of the Lise Meitner University Special Program. From 2005 to 2008 she was a research assistant at the Hanover University of Music and Drama , and since 2006 at the Research Center for Music and Gender (fmg) there.

From 2008 to 2016 Melanie Unseld was Professor of the Cultural History of Music at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg , where she was also the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Women and Gender Studies (ZFG) from 2009 to 2015. She was also co-initiator of the structured doctoral program “Memory - Perception - Meaning. Musicology as Humanities ”(2009–2012). In 2013 she completed her habilitation with a thesis on biography and music history at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Since October 2016 she has been Professor of Historical Musicology at the Institute for Musicology and Interpretation Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

In 2019, Unseld was elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Books

• “Kill this woman!” Femininity and death in the music of the turn of the century , Stuttgart / Weimar: Metzler 2001
• Mozart's women. Encounters in Music and Love , Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch 2005
• Musicology as cultural studies , Oldenburg: Until 2011, ISBN 978-3-8142-1195-4
• Biography and music history. Changes in biographical concepts in music culture and music historiography , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna: Böhlau 2014, ISBN 3-412-22276-3
• (Ed.) "Delights of Harmony" - James Gillray as a caricaturist of English music culture around 1800 , Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50789-3

Articles (selection)

• Musical biography. An inventory , in: Rhenish singers of the 20th century. A documentation in word and tone , ed. by Thomas Synofzik and Susanne Rode-Breymann , Kassel: Merseburger, 2003, pp. 15–23
• "Study [...] and make a job of it". Mozart's pupils Josepha Auernhammer and Babette Ployer , in: “An inexhaustible wealth of ideas…” female composers at the time of Mozart , ed. by Elena Ostleitner and Gabriele Dorffner (= Frauentöne , Volume 6), Strasshof / Vienna / Bad Aibling: 4/4 Verlag 2006, pp. 41–52

Web links

• Biography on the website of the University of Oldenburg
• Biography on the website of the Hanover University of Music and Drama, with bibliography
• Biographical articles on the website MUGI - Music and Gender on the Internet
• Melanie Unseld at perlentaucher , accessed on November 2, 2015