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Birgit Lodes (born 30 April 1967) is a German
musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...
and lecturer at the
University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich h ...
.


Career

Born in
Marktredwitz Marktredwitz () is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in Bavaria, Germany, close to the Czech border. It is situated 22 km west of Cheb, 50 km east of Bayreuth and 50 km south of Hof/Saale. Marktredwitz station is at the juncti ...
, Lodes grew up in Bayreuth. In 1986 she was accepted into the Maximilianeum Foundation (Wittelsbacher Jubiläumsstiftung). From 1986 to 1991 she studied music for the teaching profession at grammar schools (with piano and violoncello) as well as musicology with the subsidiary subjects and at the Hochschule für Musik and at the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: link=no, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of ...
. In 1988/89 she studied at the
University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Fran ...
. In 1991 she passed her first state examination in school music. 1992/93 she was a visiting fellow at
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
. In 1995, she received her
doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' ...
with the distinction ''summa cum laude'' from the University of Munich. Her dissertation ''Das Gloria in Beethoven's
Missa solemnis {{Audio, De-Missa solemnis.ogg, Missa solemnis is Latin for Solemn Mass, and is a genre of musical settings of the Mass Ordinary, which are festively scored and render the Latin text extensively, opposed to the more modest Missa brevis. In Frenc ...
'' was awarded the doctorate prize of the university. From 1994 to 2004, Lodes was a research assistant, assistant and senior assistant at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Munich, and from 1998 to 2000 she was also a faculty representative of the academic mid-level faculty, receiving a three-year habilitation scholarship. From 1995 to 1998 she was also a lecturer at the Munich University of Music (history of song and music). In 2002 she completed her
habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including ...
at the University of Munich. The title of the habilitation thesis is ''Gregor Mewe's' "Concentus harmonici and Jacob Obrechts last masses"''. Subsequently, in the summer semester 2002, she represented the C3-Professorship for Musicology at the
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...
. In the winter semester 2002/03, she completed a visiting professorship at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna. Since February 2004 she has been a university professor for musicology there, with special emphasis on older historical musicology. In 2008 she was elected corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 2013 she has been a member of the
Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
. Lodes is a member of the advisory board of the '.


Publications


Books

* ''Das Gloria in Beethovens Missa solemnis''''Das Gloria in Beethovens Missa solemnis''
on
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(''Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte'', volume 54), Tutzing 1997,


Essays

* ''
Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic music, Romantic and early Modernism (music), modern eras, he has been descr ...
’ Skizzen zu den „Metamorphosen“ und ihre Beziehung zu „Trauer um München“'', in ''Die Musikforschung'', Jg. 47 (1994), * ''Eine „Urfassung“ der „Metamorphosen“ von Richard Strauss?'', in ''Musica'', Jg. 48 (1994), * ''„Von Herzen – möge es wieder – zu Herzen gehn!“ Zur Widmung von Beethovens Missa solemnis'', in ''Altes im Neuen. Festschrift Theodor Göllner zum 65. Geburtstag'', edited by Bernd Edelmann and
Manfred Hermann Schmid Manfred Hermann Schmid (10 August 1947 – 5 October 2021) was a German musicologist and Mozart expert. Life Schmid was born in Ottobeuren into a musical family (the father Ernst Fritz Schmid was already ''Ordinarius'' for musicology at the ...
, Tutzing 1995, * ''Beethovens individuelle Aneignung der langsamen Einleitung. Zum Kopfsatz des String Quartet No. 12 op. 127'', in ''Musica'', Jg. 49 (1995), * ''„When I try, now and then, to give musical form to my turbulent feelings…“ The Human and the Divine in the Gloria of Beethoven's Missa solemnis'', in: ''Beethoven Forum 6,'' Lincoln-London 1998, * ''Das 19. Jahrhundert'', in ''Messe und Motette'', edited by Horst Leuchtmann and
Siegfried Mauser Siegfried Mauser (born 3 November 1954) is a German pianist, academic and music manager. In 2016, 2017, and 2018, German courts convicted him as a multiple sex offender.Ralf Wiegand/Susi Wimmer, ''Professor Unrat.'' In: ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', n ...
, Laaber 1998, * ''Klausel Nr. 24 und 25'', in ''Die Klauseln der Handschrift Saint-Victor (Paris, BN, lat. 15139)'', edited by Fred Büttner, Tutzing 1999, * with Fred Büttner, ''Klausel Nr. 12'', in ebenda, * ''Strauss’ Bearbeitungen im „Bürger als Edelmann“ und Stravinsky's
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'', in ''Compositionswissenschaft. Festschrift Reinhold und Roswitha Schlötterer zum 70. Geburtstag'', edited by Bernd Edelmann and Sabine Kurth, Augsburg 1999, * ''Der „moderne“ Strauss auf dem Weg zum Klassiker? Inszenierung und Kritik am Beispiel der Richard Strauss-Woche, München 1910'', in ''Richard Strauss und die Moderne'', edited by the Direction of the Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich 1999, * ''Nach Beethoven: Musik und Text in Schubert's Mass No. 6'', in ''Schubert-Jahrbuch 1997. Bericht über den Internationalen Schubert-Kongreß Duisburg 1997. Franz Schubert – Werk und Rezeption'', part 1, ''Lieder und Gesänge – Geistliche Werke'', edited by Dietrich Berke,
Walther Dürr Walther Dürr (27 April 1932 – 6 January 2018) was a German musicologist. He is especially known for his research of the work of Franz Schubert. From 1965 to 1997 Dürr was editor of the '' Neue Schubert-Ausgabe'', with particular responsibility ...
, Walburga Litschauer and Christiane Schumann, Duisburg 1999, * ''Probing the sacred genres: Beethoven’s religious songs, oratorio, and masses'', in ''The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven'', edited by Glenn Stanley, Cambridge 2000, and * ''Zarathustra im Dunkel. Zu Strauss’ Dehmel-Vertonung Notturno, op. 44 No. 1'', in ''Richard Strauss und die Moderne. Bericht über das internationale Symposium München, 21. bis 23. Juli 1999'', edited by Bernd Edelmann, Birgit Lodes and Reinhold Schlötterer, Berlin 2001, * ''Messen-Kompositionen im Ausgang der Wiener Klassik: Konnte Beethoven von Cherubini lernen?'', in '' Anton Bruckner – Tradition und Fortschritt in der Kirchenmusik des 19. Jahrhunderts'', edited by Friedrich Wilhelm Riedel, Sinzig 2001, * ''„Maria zart“ und die Angst vor Fegefeuer und Malafrantzos – Die Karriere eines Liedes zu Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts'', in ''Trossinger Jahrbuch für Renaissancemusik 1'', Kassel, * ''An anderem Ort, auf andere Art: Petruccis und Mewes’ Obrecht-Drucke'', in ''Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis'', volume 25, Winterthur 2002, * ''Verweigertes Laut. Beethovens Idee und ihre Realisation durch Interpret und Hörer'', in ''Dem Ohr voraus. Erwartung und Vorurteil in der Musik'', edited by Andreas Dorschel, Vienna 2004, * ''Beethoven's Sonaten für Klavier und Violoncello op. 5 in ihrem gattungsgeschichtlichen Kontext'', in ''Beethovens Werke für Klavier und Violoncello. Bericht über die Internationale Fachkonferenz Bonn, 18.–20. Juni 1998'', edited by Sieghard Brandenburg, Ingeborg Maaß und Wolfgang Osthoff, Bonn 2004, * ''Schubert und Lachner lesen Heinrich Heines „Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen“'', in ''Musikgeschichte als Verstehensgeschichte. Festschrift für
Gernot Gruber Gernot Gruber (born 17 November 1939) is an Austrian musicologist. Life Born in Bruck an der Mur, Styria, Gruber studied music, musicology, philosophy and German literature at the University of Graz and received his doctorate in 1964. Afterwar ...
zum 65. Geburtstag'', edited by Joachim Brügge, Franz Födermayr, Wolfgang Gratzer, Thomas Hochradner and Siegfried Mauser, Tutzing 2004, * with Matthias Miller, ''Hic jacet Ludovicas Fenfflius. Neues zur Biographie von
Ludwig Senfl Ludwig Senfl (born around 1486, died between December 2, 1542 and August 10, 1543) was a Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in Germany. He was the most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of Maximilian I, Holy ...
'', in ''Die Musikforschung'', Jg. 58 (2005), * ''„so träumte mir, ich reiste ��nach Indien“: Temporality and Mythology in Opus 127/I'', in ''The String Quartets of Beethoven'', edited by
William Kinderman William Andrew Kinderman (born 1 November 1952) is an American author and music scholar who plays the piano. Life Born in Philadelphia, Kinderman studied music and philosophy at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and later the same subjects at ...
, Urbana and Chicago 2006, – German translation in ''Kammermusik an Rhein und Main. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Streichquartetts'', edited by Kristina Pfarr and Karl Böhmer, Mainz 2007, * ''
Franz Lachner Franz Paul Lachner (2 April 1803 – 20 January 1890) was a German composer and conductor. Biography Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family (his brothers Ignaz, Theodor and Vinzenz also became musicians). He studied music with ...
' „Sängerfahrt“ op. 33 auf Texte von
Heinrich Heine Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of '' Lie ...
'', in ''Franz Lachner und seine Brüder'', edited by Hartmut Schick and Stephan Hörner, Tutzing 2006, * ''Text und Musik'', in ''Diskurs. Sprache. Text. Eine methodenorientierte Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft für Romanistinnen und Romanisten'', edited by Michael Metzeltin, 3rd edition. Vienna 2008, * ''Reflexionen zu Beethoven und Mozart'', in ''Mitteilungsblatt der Wiener Beethoven-Gesellschaft'', Jg. 37, issue 4/2006, * ''
Ludwig Senfl Ludwig Senfl (born around 1486, died between December 2, 1542 and August 10, 1543) was a Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in Germany. He was the most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of Maximilian I, Holy ...
and the Munich Choirbooks'', in ''Die Münchner Hofkapelle des 16. Jahrhunderts im europäischen Kontext'', edited by Theodor Göllner and Bernhold Schmid, Munich 2006, * ''Sigmund Salmingers ''Selectissimae cantiones'' (Augsburg 1540) als musikalischer Geschenkdruck für Königin Maria von Ungarn'', in ''
Gutenberg-Jahrbuch The ''Gutenberg-Jahrbuch'' is an annual periodical publication covering the history of printing and the book. Its focus is on incunables, early printing, and the life and work of Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the modern printed book. It has been ...
2008'', * ''Musikdruck als Medienrevolution? Codex versus Buch im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert'', in ''Vom Preis des Fortschritts. Gewinn und Verlust in der Musikgeschichte'', edited by Andreas Dorschel and Andreas Haug, Vienna 2008, * with Laurenz Lütteken, ''Einleitung'', in ''Institutionalisierung als Prozeß. Organisationsformen musikalischer Eliten im Europa des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts'', edited by Birgit Lodes and Laurenz Lütteken, Laaber 2008, * ''Multiple Erscheinungsformen einer Vorlage: „Maria zart“ kontrafaziert und bearbeitet'', in ''Die Kunst des Übergangs. Musik über Musik in der Renaissance'', edited by Nicole Schwindt, Kassel 2008, * ''Des Kaisers Alamire: Zur Entstehung des Chorbuchs Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Mus. Hs. 15495'', in ''Uno gentile et subtile ingenio: Studies in Renaissance Music in Honour of Bonnie J. Blackburn'', edited by Jennifer Bloxam, Gioia Filocamo and Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Turnhout 2009, * ''„Nicht weiter! hier der Kirchenmusik, dort der Symphonie zurufend“. Hanslicks Blick auf Beethoven.'' In ''
Eduard Hanslick Eduard Hanslick (11 September 18256 August 1904) was an Austrian music critic, aesthetician and historian. Among the leading critics of his time, he was the chief music critic of the '' Neue Freie Presse'' from 1864 until the end of his life. H ...
zum Gedenken. Bericht des Symposions zum Anlass seines 100. Todestages.'' Edited by Theophil Antonicek,
Gernot Gruber Gernot Gruber (born 17 November 1939) is an Austrian musicologist. Life Born in Bruck an der Mur, Styria, Gruber studied music, musicology, philosophy and German literature at the University of Graz and received his doctorate in 1964. Afterwar ...
and Christoph Landerer, Tutzing 2010, * ''Das Jahr 1507 in (musik-)drucktechnischer Perspektive'', in ''NiveauNischeNimbus. Die Anfänge des Musikdrucks nördlich der Alpen'', edited by Birgit Lodes, Tutzing 2010, * ''“Le congrès danse”: Set Form and Improvisation in Beethoven's Polonaise for Piano, Op. 89'', in ''Musical Quarterly'', Jg. 93 (2010), * ''Musikhistoriographie ohne Kunstwerke?
Carl Dahlhaus Carl Dahlhaus (10 June 1928 – 13 March 1989) was a German musicologist who was among the leading postwar musicologists of the mid to late 20th-century. A prolific scholar, he had broad interests though his research focused on 19th- and 20t ...
und die Alte Musik'', in ''Carl Dahlhaus und die Musikwissenschaft: Werk, Wirkung, Aktualität'', edited by
Hermann Danuser Hermann Danuser (born 3 October 1946) is a Swiss-German musicologist. Life Born in Frauenfeld, Danuser studied piano, oboe, musicology, philosophy and German language and literature at the Musikhochschule and the University of Zurich from 1965; ...
, Schliengen 2011,


External links


Website am Institut für Musikwissenschaft der Universität Wien mit Literaturverzeichnis


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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lodes, Birgit Women musicologists 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists Beethoven scholars Academics of the University of Vienna Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Members of Academia Europaea 1967 births Living people People from Marktredwitz