
Mag. Dr. Elisabeth Theresia Hilscher
Telephone
(+43 1) 51581 – 3703
... was born in Vienna in 1967, studied musicology and history at the University of Vienna. Since 1987, she has been a staff member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (first Kommission für Musikforschung, since 2013 of the Department of Musicology of the Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen, since 2020 of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, ACDH). She is also a member of the executive committees of Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe von Denkmälern der Tonkunst in Österreich and Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft, respectively, and, since 2018, an advisory board member of the Department of Art and Cultural Studies at Danube University Krems. Since 2012, she has been a lecturer at the University of Vienna and works closely together with the Masaryk University Brno/Musicology. The main focus of her academic work is on Austrian and Viennese music history, the music history of the courts of the Habsburgs of the Austrian line, the tradition of music in churches and monasteries, and the history of musicology.
At the ACDH she is currently leading the projects Catalogue of the Music Archives of the Benedictine Abbey of Göttweig (Lower Austria), Music at the Courts of the House of Habsburg and Music at the Metropolitan and Cathedral Church of Saint Stephen in Vienna within the Department of Musicology.
Publications
- Sonnengesang und mehr: Archivar? Archiwie? Archiwo?Hilscher, Elisabeth (Autor:in); Jaros, Monika (Redakteur:in); Hauser, Stefan (Redakteur:in). 2026. Wien: Radio Klassik Stephansdom.
Musik der franziskanischen Ordensgemeinschaften aus Anlasse der Eröffnung der Austellung "LebensKunst. 800 Jahre Franz von Assisi" im Domquartier Salzburg
Lectures
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Prag
Zurück in den Kirchendienst? Mozarts Bewerbung an St. Stephan vor dem Hintergrund von katholischer Aufklärung und Josephinismus in Wien
Hilscher, E. (Speaker)
16 Jul 2026 -
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Musikalische "big player" in Wien um 1780 - Hofmusikkapelle, Tonkünstler Societät, Sankt Stephan
Hilscher, E. (Speaker)
16 Mar 2026 -
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SE Musiker*innen-Romane - Belletristik zwischen Mythen, Kitsch und Fakten 160073-1
Hilscher, E. (Speaker)
1 Mar 2026 → 30 Jun 2026 -
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VO 160068-1 Musikgeschichte Wiens vom Beginn der Frühneuzeit bis zum Beginn der Moderne
Hilscher, E. (Speaker)
1 Oct 2025 → 31 Jan 2026 -
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PR 160069-1 Was tun mit historischen Notenbeständen? Archivwissen für Musikwissenschaftler*innen
Hilscher, E. (Speaker)
1 Oct 2025 → 31 Jan 2026 -
Wien
Der barocke Lebensstil in Wien. Feste - Musik - Theater - Kirche
Hilscher, E. (Speaker)
29 Apr 2025
