Stefan stefan.weiss@hmtm-hannover.de Weiss
German music historian, Professor of Historical Musicology at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. His research interests include the history of musical institutions, contemporary music, Russian opera, and German musical culture of the 20th century. He studied at the University of Cologne. During his student years, he worked at the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne. His master’s thesis focused on thematic development and form-building in the early works of Dmitri Shostakovich. From 1994 to 1996, he wrote his Doctoral Dissertation on the music of Philipp Jarnach, while also working as a freelance music journalist for the Kölnische Rundschau, managing the Cologne Society for New Music, and serving as a research assistant at the Cologne Institute of Musicology within the interdisciplinary project “Historical Atlas of the Rhineland.” In 1996‒1997, he was awarded a research fellowship by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation to study the early history of Russian opera in Saint Petersburg. From 1997 to 2003, he worked as a research associate at the Institute of Musicology of the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music in Dresden, and concurrently held a part-time teaching position at the Institute of Art and Musicology of the Technical University of Dresden. Since April 2003, he has held the position of Professor of Historical Musicology at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. He has also been actively involved in the professional musical community. From 2001 to 2003, he served as chair of the Saxon Society for New Music. Since 2003, he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Kurt Weill Society in Dessau. From 2007 to 2010, he was chair of the Hanover Society for New Music.
