The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities elected musicologist Christiane Wiesenfeldt as a full member.

Prof. Dr. Christiane Wiesenfeldt received her Ph.D. in 2005 from Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel with a dissertation on the cello sonata in the 19th century and completed her habilitation in 2011 at the University of Münster with a dissertation on the Marian Mass in the 16th century. From 2012 to 2020, she was a professor of musicology at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Chair of the Institute of Musicology). Since 2020, she has held the Chair of Musicology at Heidelberg University. Her research and publications focus on music, religion, and liturgy in the early modern period; music history as a history of reception; musical concepts of Romanticism and homeland; and phenomena such as the concept of the musical work and self-reflection in music. 

Christiane Wiesenfeldt is editor-in-chief of TONKUNST, a full member of the Academies of Sciences in Erfurt, Leipzig, and Heidelberg, and a member of the editorial board and scientific advisory board of “MGG online.” Since 2022, in addition to other research projects, she has led the Academies’ project “Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” as well as the DFG long-term project “Digital Liszt Source and Work Catalog.” Since 2024, she has been the spokesperson for SFB 1671 Heimat(en).  

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