Gerlinde Haid (born Hofer (19 April 1943 – 29 November 2012) was an Austrian

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be ca ...

researcher.

Life

Born in

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, Haid attended the primary schools in Bad Aussee as well as the and graduated in 1961. She then studied

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and German language and literature at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

. In 1965, she passed the teacher's examination and erwarb den Titel Magistra of philosophy. From 1966 to 1976, she was a research assistant at the at the

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university established in 1817 located in Vienna. With a student body of over three thousand, it is the largest institution of its kind in Austria, and one of t ...

. She also studied

folklore Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as Narrative, tales, myths, legends, proverbs, Poetry, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. This also ...

and

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at the University of Vienna and was awarded a doctorate in philosophy in 1976.Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz: ''Gerlinde Haid''
; retrieved 4 September 2021 From 1975 to 1989 she was secretary general of the and then university assistant at the Institute for Musical Folklore at the Expositur Innsbruck. From 1994 until her retirement in 2011, she was full professor of the history and theory of folk music at the Hochschule (from 1998 University) für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. Her main field of research was folk music of the Alps. Haid was the editor of the series "Schriften zur Volksmusik", which

Walter Deutsch Walter Deutsch (29 April 1923 – 13 January 2025) was an Austrian musicologist specialising in folk music research. He first worked as a composer and pianist, but became interested in folk music and performed field research, collecting hundred ...

founded in 1970 and which are among the most well-founded publications of the subject in Austria. She also wrote numerous articles on musical customs and folk dances for the ''

Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon The ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon'Oesterreichisch'' with ''Oe'' is the spelling of the print and online output. (, ) is a five-volume music encyclopedia founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Commission for Music Research. It was offic ...

''. Haid was married to the Tyrolean folklorist and dialect poet Hans Haid.ORF-Online: ''Trauer um Gerlinde Haid''
retrieved 4 September 2021 Haid died in

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at the age of 69.Klocker Bestattung: ''Todesanzeige''
retrieved 4 September 2021

Awards

In 2003, Haid was awarded the Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class, by the

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. In 2010, she received the Walter-Deutsch-Preis, which is awarded every two years by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research in recognition of special achievements in the field of folk music research.

Publications

* with : ''Die schönsten Lieder Österreichs''. Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Wien/Heidelberg 1979, . * ''Tanzbeschreibungen, Tanzforschung. Gesammelte Volkstanzstudien'' with Ilka Peter, Karl Horak, Gerald Riedler. Österreichisches Volksliedwerk / Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1983.

References

External links

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Aufnahmen von und mit Gerlinde Haid
im Onlinearchiv der Österreichischen Mediathek {{DEFAULTSORT:Haid, Gerlinde Folk-song collectors Austrian ethnomusicologists Austrian women musicologists Academic staff of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Austrian folk music Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class 1943 births 2012 deaths People from Bad Aussee