The Jacobs School of Music is thrilled to host Dr. Birgit Lodes in September. Prof. Lodes will deliver a talk as part of the IU Jacobs School of Music Distinguished Lecture Series and the Musicology Colloquium. She will also visit the Renaissance Studies Program while in Bloomington.
Birgit Lodes (University of Vienna)
Thursday, September 14 | 5:00 pm | SM344 (3rd floor, Simon Music Center)
“Personal Devotion, Indulgenced Prayers, and the Aura of the Chant: Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria Listening to Motets of Ludwig Senfl”
Friday, September 15 | 12:30 pm | Ford-Crawford Hall (2nd floor, Simon Music Center)
“Reframing the song cycle An die Ferne Geliebte op. 98: Beethoven the Consoler”
Prof. Lodes heads the musicology program at the University of Vienna and is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea. She belongs to the distinguished steering committee of the international interdisciplinary digital project Musical Life of the Late Middle Ages in the Austrian Region, and oversees publication of both the historical score series Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich and a book series devoted to the history of older music, Wiener Forum für ältere Musikgeschichte. Prof. Lodes has served as editor or co-editor of numerous scholarly volumes, including the fascinating recent reconstructions of the operatic and sacred music libraries of the electoral court at Bonn (where the young Beethoven came of age). She is an active board member of the newly formed international Schubert Research Center at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. This center hosts workshops in Vienna for an international cohort of students and runs an annual conference. They have also just launched a book series.
Prof. Lodes’s individual scholarship ranges from studies around Ludwig Senfl and Jacob Obrecht to Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, and the court and patronage systems in which they operated, to music of Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, and beyond. Her interests span the sacred and the secular, music editing, and archival research. Recurring themes in her writing involve memory and mourning, musical collections and collecting, the customization of music for aristocrats or dilettantes, and lifting women out of the shadows in historical narrative. She is a frequent contributor to conferences around Beethoven or Schubert and on Renaissance topics. Her work has appeared in many prominent German and English-language publications.
This event is co-sponsored by the Jacobs School of Music Lecture Committee, the IU Musicology department, IU Music Theory department, and the Renaissance Studies Program.
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