Christiane Wiesenfeldt

Christiane Wiesenfeldt (DE) received her PhD in 2005 from the University of Kiel on the cello sonata of the nineteenth century and her habilitation in 2011 from the University of Muenster on Mary masses of the sixteenth century. From 2012 until 2020 she was professor of musicology at the joint Institute of Musicology at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Since April 2020 she ist full professor and chair of musicology at Heidelberg University. Her research focuses mainly on romantic music of the “long” nineteenth century (Brahms, Reger, Mendelssohn Bartholdy), as well as on Marian music (Masses, Magnificats) and interconfessional musical aspects of the sixteenth century. She leads several research projects, is representative of a funded interdisciplinary research training group on Romanticism, founder and editor-in-chief of DIE TONKUNST (since 2009), and ordinary member of the Saxonian Academy of Science (since 2015).