Elisabeth Reisinger

Elisabeth studied musicology and history at the University of Vienna, where she also held positions as a scholar in several research projects on music at the Bonn Electoral Court in the late eighteenth century. Her monograph based on her dissertation on Elector Maximilian Franz of Cologne as a patron of music was published with the Beethoven-Haus Verlag in 2020. As a musician, she is a classically trained clarinetist.

In 2019, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome, with a project focused on Franz Liszt, and subsequently at Harvard University’s Department of Music, where she conducted research on Benny Goodman. In 2021, she received a fellowship from the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel for her research on the harpsichord in the twentieth century.

Elisabeth’s research articulates a relational conception of music as a vibrant and dynamic sociocultural practice, driven by a specific interest in the relationships, networks, and agencies of musical actors, as well as the dynamics in the field of patronage. She has published internationally, for example in Acta Musicologica, Studia Musicologica, and the Journal of the Society for American Music. Her current work at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna is dedicated to musical patronage and sponsorship carried out by performers in the twentieth century (for more information see: https://ppnm.hypotheses.org/ ).