Michele Calella

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Michele Calella (born June 22, 1967 in Taranto ) is an Italian - German musicologist . He researches and teaches at the University of Vienna .

Education and career

Calella studied piano from 1977 to 1987 and then musicology at the Scuola di Paleografia e Filologia Musicale at the University of Pavia-Cremona . In 1990 he moved to the University of Regensburg to study musicology and Romance languages . From 1991 he was a research assistant for RISM in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris for two years . In 1993 he obtained the Baccalaureat in Cremona with a thesis on Piccini's work in Paris, at the same time he obtained the qualification to teach music history at Italian conservatories. From 1993 to 1997 he again studied musicology, Middle Latin philology and Romance studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where he received his doctorate under Klaus Hortschansky .

From 1997 to 2001 he was (with interruptions) a research assistant at the Musicological Institute at the University of Marburg and then moved to the University of Zurich in 2001 together with Laurenz Lütteken . In 2003 he qualified as a professor in musicology (Publikat. I. V.). From 2003 to 2004 he was an assistant, then senior assistant, at the musicological institute at the University of Zurich. From 2005 to 2010 Calella was Professor of Musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , and in 2010 he was appointed Professor of Modern Historical Musicology at the University of Vienna .

In 2019 Calella was elected to the Academia Europaea .

Independent writings (selection)

  • The ensemble in the Tragédie lyrique des late Ancien régime (= writings on musicology from Münster 14), Eisenach : Verlag der Musikalienhandlung Wagner, 2000.
  • as publisher (together with Christian Glanz ): Joseph Joachim (1831–1907) - European citizen, composer, virtuoso . Vienna: Mille-Tre-Verlag 2008.
  • Musical authorship: The composer between the Middle Ages and the modern age , habilitation thesis University of Zurich 2003, Kassel: Bärenreiter 2014.
  • as editor (together with Nikolaus Urbanek): Musikhistoriographie (n). Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag , 2015, ISBN 978-3-99012-240-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Calella, Michele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarent