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Two of the Deparment’s research projects to be presented at the “Musik_Familie” symposium

Ingeborg Zechner, Jakob Leitner, and Nora Eder will speak at the symposium “Musik_Familie. Cultural Studies Perspectives,” taking place in Vienna from May 27–30, 2026

Julian Blunk at a symposium in Paris

This is organized by ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine und ENSA Paris-Malaquais with the title "Spectres de l’architecture. Les voix négatives du projet Journées d’étude", 20.05.-21.05.2026

Eurovision Song Contest: United by Music – Divided by Politics?

The biggest political protest in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. Saskia Jaszoltowski joins Ann-Maren Hoolt on the SZ Podcast to analyse what this means for the contest.

International Student Symposium in Graz

This year’s annual musicology exchange for students from several universities took place in Graz

From Paisiello’s Theatre to Henze’s Piazza

Elena Minetti spoke at the Paul Sacher Foundation about Don Chisciotte della Mancia (1769 / 1976)

ESC – Between Anticipation and Uncertainty

Saskia Jaszoltowski on Ö1’s "Journal Panorama"

You are the Sound // A Workshop on Listening and Mimesis

Susanne Kogler and Nicolas Müller-Lorenz at a conference in Vienna 21.-24.05.2026: Tenor Vienna 2026, International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation & Representation

Robert Felfe gives a lecture at the Yale University

Robert Felfe has accepted an invitation from the Department of the History of Art at Yale University to participate in the Annual Symposium and Mentoring Workshop, April 29–May 1, 2026, in New Haven, CT.

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Towards a Shared Digital Infrastructure for Adriatic Opera

Keynote address by Cristina Scuderi, “Towards a shared digital infrastructure for Adriatic opera: mobility, networks and the methodological approaches…

Opera for everyone – Everyone for opera

Discussion event on the framework conditions, opportunities and challenges of inclusive musical theatre with Ingeborg Zechner

70 Years of the Song Contest – Points Are Relative

To mark this year’s 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, ORF Steiermark is producing its own podcast – packed with insights, but also plenty of…

Music as a Multi-Layered Space for Dialogu?

European musical culture as a space of dialogue: International conference in Bydgoszcz/Ostromecko

New release on film music

Ingeborg Zechner writes about film composers and the Screen Composers Association

Automatic annotation and modelling of works in eighteenth-century (music) theatre

Diana Korol and Jakob Leitner will participate in DHd 2026

Reconstructing Operatic Mobility and Exchanges Across the Adriatic

Cristina Scuderi speaks at the international conference "Music Mobility and Cultural Exchanges Across the Eastern Mediterranean in Modern Times" in…

MUSIC AFTER NATURE

Susanne Kogler moderates a panel discussion at the festival for music, performance and discourse on the topic of interactions between nature, matter,…