BEETHOVEN SUMMIT '26

BIOGRAPHY

Birgit Lodes studied in Munich, at UCLA, and at Harvard University. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Vienna and currently serves as Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair at Stanford University. She is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and editor-in-chief of the series Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich. Her research focuses on musical life in Central Europe around 1500, as well as on Beethoven, Schubert, and their circles. Her recent publications include the edited volumes Beethoven-Geflechte. A Beethoven Tapestry. Networks and Cultures of Memory (2024) and Women’s Agency in Schubert’s Vienna (2024).