Federico Celestini

Federico Celestini (AT) is professor for musicology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He studied in Rome at the University La Sapienza before completing his PhD and habilitation in musicology at the University of Graz, Austria. He has been awarded several fellowships, e.g., from the British Academy (University of Oxford), the Riemenschneider Bach Institute (Cleveland), and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Freie Universität Berlin). In 2010 he was a Mellon European Scholar and visiting professor at the University of Chicago. Celestini combines interests in music, philosophy, and in social and cultural history. His publications include books on Haydn’s piano sonatas and on Viennese modernism. His latest book, about Nietzsche’s music philosophy, has been published in 2016.