Manuela Schwartz


Manuela Schwartz is a German musicologist.

Life

Schwartz was born in Pirmasens. She completed her master's degree in musicology, history and German studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Technische Universität Berlin. After completing her doctorate in 1995 at Technische Universität Berlin, she worked at the State Institute for Music Research ; in 1996 she joined the DFG-Project Music in Exile 1933-1949: Pilot Project California at the Folkwang University of the Arts as a research assistant in Essen. Since 2000 she has been Professor of Historical Musicology at the.
Schwartz publishes on a wide range of topics from the 19th and 20th centuries. She was a member of the German-French research network La vie musicale sous Vichy as well as in the DFG network Hörwissen im Wandel. Ihre Publikationen enthalten neben Grundlagenforschung zum Exil von Musikern während des Nationalsozialismus and letter editions including research on the reception of Richard Wagner's work in France, the relationship between music and politics in occupied France 1940–1944, the history and culture of European music therapy in the 19th and 20th centuries, and biographical studies on individual personalities. Since autumn 2017 she has been co-editor of the series Schriften zur politischen Musikgeschichte at Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
On March 23, 2022, she was elected Rector of Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences by the Academic Senate, effective May 17, 2022. Since 2021, she has been an honorary professor at the University of Montreal in Quebec and Dean of the Department of Social Work, Health and Media. She has also been chairwoman of the Richard Wagner Association in Magdeburg since 2021 and a member of the Protestant University Advisory Board. Since May 2022, Manuela Schwartz is the project leader of the German Jordanian University http://www.gju.edu.jo/content/about-gju-687 under the governance of the DAAD and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Publications

Wagner-Rezeption und französische Oper des Fin de Siècle. Untersuchungen zu Vincent d’Indys Fervaal. Studiopunkt Verlag, Sinzig 1999, .
  • with Stefan Keym : Pluralismus wider Willen? Stilistische Tendenzen in der Musik Vincent d’Indys. Olms, Hildesheim 2002,.
  • with Horst Weber : Quellen zur Geschichte emigrierter Musiker 1933–1950. Vol. 1: Kalifornien. K. G. Saur, Munich 2003,, as eBook.
  • as ed.: Vincent d’Indy et son temps. Mardaga, Sprimont 2006,.
  • with Sabine Meine : Der Musiksalon. Beiträge des Symposiums "Salons des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts – Räume für Musik in Großstädten Europas und Amerikas", organisiert im Rahmen der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Leipzig 2008. In Die Tonkunst, 2010/1,, .
  • with Eike Rathgeber, Christian Heitler : Conrad Ansorge. Ein Pianist des Fin de Siècle in Berlin und Wien.. Böhlau, Viena/Cologne/Weimar 2017,.