As was the case throughout Central Europe, the Salzburg region also saw a gradual shift in the practice of folk music from the countryside to the city and back again. This gradual process unfolded over the course of centuries and encompassed a stylistic transformation, a redefinition of the cultural functions of music, and a continuous adaptation to the educational models of the urban elite. The lecture will demonstrate how local traditions were overshadowed by a ‘Bohemian wave’ and how this very style found its way into urban popular music. Particularly in the city of Salzburg, where significant accents in classical music have been set since the mid-19th century through the Mozart Festivals and later also through the Salzburger Festspiele, this coexistence provided and continues to provide a point of friction, the development of which is to be traced from a historical understanding of its diverse manifestations.

The event will be held in person, but will also be streamed live by the Institute for Musicology via Zoom and will be made available on the Institute’s website in the future. You can joing the live stream by clicking on the link. (Meeting ID: 769 044 1289. Passcode: ELTEBTK.In case you click on the link, these are not necessary.)

Curriculum Vitae

Thomas Hochradner is Professor of historical musicology at the Institute for Research on Musical Reception & Interpretation of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where he has been Head of the Research Focus: Salzburg’s Musical History, a position he has held since 2011. He was co-founder of the Institute for the History of Musical Reception and Interpretation at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, which he directed from 2006 to 2011 and of which he remains a member. From 2014 to 2021, he also served as Head of the Department of Musicology at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

His teaching and research cover music history from the 17th to the 20th century, with particular emphasis on music philology, Baroque and church music, reception history, Salzburg’s musical heritage, and folk music research. Hochradner has edited numerous conference proceedings, including The Monk of Salzburg in the Interpretation Profile of the Present (with Siegrid Schmidt, 2021), Paths to Silent Night: On the Pre- and Post-History of a “Simple Composition” (2021), and Leopold Mozart: Chronicler and Pioneer (with Michaela Schwarzbauer, 2022). He is the editor of the Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Johann Joseph Fux (vol. 1, 2016) and co-editor of Silent Night: The Book of the Song (2018).

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