Birgit Lodes


Birgit Lodes is a German musicologist and lecturer at the University of Vienna.

Career

Born in Marktredwitz, Lodes grew up in Bayreuth. In 1986 she was accepted into the Maximilianeum Foundation. From 1986 to 1991 she studied music for the teaching profession at grammar schools as well as musicology with the subsidiary subjects and at the Hochschule für Musik and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 1988/89 she studied at the University of California. In 1991 she passed her first state examination in school music. 1992/93 she was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.
In 1995, she received her doctorate with the distinction summa cum laude from the University of Munich. Her dissertation Das Gloria in Beethoven's Missa solemnis 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.
In 2002 she completed her habilitation 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. 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.
Lodes is a member of the advisory board of the .

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