Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann

Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann , b. Wald (* 1979 in Schwerin ) is a German musicologist and co-director at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main.

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Growing up in Schwerin , Wald studied musicology and Greek studies from 1997 to 2002 in Rostock , Marburg , Salzburg and at the Free University of Berlin . It was supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. From 2003 to 2010 she worked at the musicological institute of the University of Zurich , initially as a research assistant to Laurenz Lütteken , then as assistant and senior assistant.

2005 Forest was there with a thesis on Athanasius Kircher "Musurgia universalis" doctorate , the 2006 Bärenreiter published with the 2009 Max Weber Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences has been awarded. In 2009, she completed her habilitation on the subject of melancholy in instrumental music around 1800 . This work was also awarded the Hermann Abert Prize of the Society for Music Research .

In 2010/11 Wald-Fuhrmann was professor for musicology at the Lübeck University of Music . From October 2011 to March 2013 she taught at the Humboldt University in Berlin as a professor of music sociology and historical anthropology of music. From April 2012 she was also Vice Dean for Studies and Teaching at the Philosophical Faculty III there. Since 2013 she has been one of the current three directors of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main.

Wald-Fuhrmann is married to the Viennese musicologist Wolfgang Fuhrmann . Between 2011 and 2013 she was director of the Berlin Sound Archives , a collection of the Humboldt University.

Publications

• Knowledge of the world from music. Athanasius Kircher's "Musurgia universalis" and universal science in the 17th century . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2006. ISBN 978-3-7618-1913-5 .
• Together with Wolfgang Fuhrmann: Haydn and Bach . Carus Stuttgart 2010. ISBN 978-3-89948-153-2 .
• "A means against oneself". Melancholy in instrumental music around 1800 . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2010. ISBN 978-3-7618-2197-8 .
• Quarry or knowledge building? On the reception of Athanasius Kircher's "Musurgia Universalis" in music theory and composition practice . Schwabe Verklag, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7965-2898-9 .
• Together with Lena van der Hoven: La musique, c'est moi! Frederick II's sounding path to historical greatness . Past Publishing, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-86408-151-4 .
• Together with Klaus Pietschmann: The canon of music: theory and history. A manual . Ed. Text + criticism, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-86916-106-8 .
• Together with Wolfgang Fuhrmann: Hunch and memory. The dramaturgy of the leitmotifs in Richard Wagner . Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel 2013. ISBN 978-3-7618-2269-2 .
• Together with Christiane Wiesenfeldt: The composer Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius Kunzen (1761-1817). Genera. Works. Contexts . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-412-22275-8 .

Web links

• Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann on the website of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
• Literature by and about Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the Max Planck Institute
2. ↑ see broadcast of the BR under On the history of the Berlin sound archive ( Memento from November 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) broadcast of the BR radio on August 2, 2013 (podcast)