Prof. Dr. phil. Silke Leopold

Curriculum Vitae

1975-1978
Scholarship-holder at the Music Department of the German Historical Institute in Rome

1980-1991
Research assistant of Carl Dahlhaus, lecturer in Musicology at the Berlin Technical University

1985-1986
Visiting lecturer at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

1986
Dent Medal of the British Royal Musical Association for "outstanding contributions to musicology"

1987
Habilitation in Musicology with a research project on "Poetry and music in early 17th century Italian solo singing"

1988
Acting professor in Musicology at Regensburg University

1991-1996
Full professor for Musicology at the conservatorium of Detmold University/GH Paderborn, since 1992 Member of the Academy for Mozart research of the International Foundation Mozarteum in Salzburg

1993-1995
Dean of Unit 4 of Paderborn University

1993-2001
Vice-president of the Society for Musical Research

1995
Call to the chair of Musicology of Heidelberg University and the chair for Musicology at Paris-Lodron University, Salzburg

1998-2000
Women's officer of the University

Since 1999
Ordinary Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2001
Elected chair of the commission for study abroad of the Society for Musical Research

2003
Elected to the advisory board of the German Historical Institute in Rome

Since 2003
Corresponding member of the American Musicological Society

Since 1996
Full professor of Musicology and director of the Musicology Department of Heidelberg University

2001-2007
Vice-rector for teaching, at Heidelberg University

Fields of Interest

History of music, especially history of the opera, Monteverdi, Händel and Mozart

Selected Publications (since 2003)

• Who's who in der Oper, Kassel and München 1997, 2., erweiterte Auflage 2004. (with Robert Maschka)
• Über die Inszenierung durch Musik. Einige grundsätzliche Überlegungen zur Interaktion von Verhaltensnormen und Personendarstellung in der Barockoper", in: Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis 23 (1999), pp. 9-40.
• Oratorienführer, Stuttgart 2000. (with Ullrich Scheideler)
• Die Oper im 17. Jahrhundert (= Handbuch der musikalischen Gattungen 11), Laaber 2004.
• Hofoper in Schwetzingen. Musik, Bühnenkunst, Architektur, Heidelberg 2004. (with Bärbel Pelker)
• Sull'attualità dell'opera barocca", in: Estetica Barocca, ed. Sebastian Schütze, Rome 2004, pp. 415-422.
• Vom Mythos der "italianità". Vor-, Früh- und Problemgeschichte einer musikalischen Kategorie", in: "Vanitatis fuga, aeternitatis amor". (= Analecta musicologica 36), ed. Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort, Laaber 2005, pp. 1-21.
• Mozart-Handbuch, Kassel/Stuttgart 2005. (ed.)
• Geschichte der Oper in 4 Bänden, Laaber 2006. (ed.)