Silke Leopold

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Silke Leopold (born November 30, 1948 in Hamburg ) is a German musicologist and university professor.

Life

Silke Leopold studied musicology , theater studies , Romance studies and literary studies in Hamburg and Rome from 1969 to 1975 , as well as singing and flute at the Hamburg Conservatory . From 1969 to 1980 she was a member of the Hamburg Monteverdi Choir (conductor: Jürgen Jürgens ). After receiving her doctorate in 1975 on the Roman Baroque composer Stefano Landi , she was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome for three years , then a two-year fellowship from the German Research Foundation . As a research assistant to Carl Dahlhaus , she taught at the TU Berlin since 1980 , where she qualified as a professor in 1987 with a thesis on poetry and music in Italian solo singing of the early 17th century. After an academic year as a visiting lecturer at Harvard University in the USA in 1985/86 and a substitute professor at the University of Regensburg in the summer semester of 1988 , she was appointed full professor at the musicological seminar at the University of Paderborn and the Detmold University of Music in 1991.

From 1996 until her retirement in 2014, she was full professor for musicology and director of the musicological institute at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Leopold held numerous elective positions in the academic self-administration; From 2001 to 2007 she was Vice-Rector for Studies and Teaching at Heidelberg University, responsible for converting the courses to the BA / MA system and a sensible distribution concept for the newly introduced tuition fees. Leopold has been a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 1999 .

research

The focus of Leopold's research lies in the field of music history from the 16th to the 18th centuries and the question of how text and music combine to form an individual organism. She has examined this primarily in connection with the Italian language, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches. This is particularly reflected in her contributions to opera history . Leopold has published numerous books on this, including a comprehensive account of 17th century opera and writings on the operas of Claudio Monteverdi , Georg Friedrich Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Further focal points are historical performance practice , the relationship between musical text and performance, musical aesthetics as well as questions of music historiography and the breakdown of music by epochs . Since 2006, Leopold has been head of the Southwest German Court Music Research Center at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

Others

In parallel to her scientific career, Leopold developed extensive journalistic activities, since it was important to her to convey scientific knowledge to an interested public outside of the specialist circles. She moderates and writes broadcasts on topics from her specialist fields, has helped develop various broadcast formats, writes program book texts and organizes seminars and teacher training courses outside of the university.

Fonts (selection)

As editor:

  • with Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort: Migration and Identity. Wanderings and cultural contacts in music history (= Analecta Musicologica. 49). Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-7618-2135-0 .
  • with Norbert Greiner, Sara Springfeld: The Sonnet and Music. Poetics, conjunctures, transformations, reflections. Contributions to the interdisciplinary symposium in Heidelberg from September 26th to 28th 2012. Winter, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8253-6209-6 .
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , The Magic Flute . Aria: a girl or a female. Facsimile and piano reduction. With an afterword by Silke Leopold. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2006, ISBN 978-3-7618-1775-9 .
  • with the collaboration of Jutta Schmoll-Barthel, Sara Jeffe: Mozart-Handbuch. Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-2021-6 .
  • Good morning, dear woman! Mozart's letters to Constanze . Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1814-9 .
  • with Bärbel Pelker: Hofoper in Schwetzingen . Music, theater, architecture. Winter, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-8253-1524-X .
  • with Thomas Betzwieser : Abbé Vogler . A Mannheimer in a European context (= sources and studies on the history of the Mannheim court orchestra. Vol. 7). International Colloquium Heidelberg 1999. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2003, ISBN 3-631-50095-5 .
  • with Agnes Speck: Hysteria and Madness (= Heidelberg Women's Studies. Vol. 7). Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-88423-174-X .
  • with Ullrich Scheideler : oratorio guide. Metzler et al., Stuttgart et al. 2000, ISBN 3-476-00977-7 .
  • with Joachim Steinheuer: Claudio Monteverdi and the consequences. Report on the International Symposium Detmold 1993. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 1998, ISBN 3-7618-1405-4 .
  • with Robert Maschka: Who's who in the opera. Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 1997, ISBN 3-7618-1268-X (extended new edition. Ibid 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1780-0 ).
  • Musical metamorphoses. Forms and history of processing (= Bärenreiter study books on music. Vol. 2). Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 1992, ISBN 3-7618-1051-2 .

Awards and memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zegk/muwi/dozenten/leopold.html
  2. ↑ a b c d Adrian Kuhl: "It can also sound nice". Silke Leopold on her 70th birthday . In: Music in Baden-Württemberg. Yearbook 2017/18 . tape 24 . JB Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-476-04681-9 , pp. 337, 339, 341, 342 .
  3. ↑ The staff at /www.hof-musik.de, accessed on November 19, 2018
  4. ^ Dent Medal recipients. Retrieved November 15, 2018 .
  5. ^ A b c Musicology Seminar Heidelberg: Musicology Seminar Heidelberg - Lecturers - Leopold. Retrieved November 15, 2018 .
  6. ↑ The Popess of Handel. Retrieved November 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Leopold, Silke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg