Elisabeth Theresia Hilscher

... 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 Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, ACDH-CH). 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-CH she is currently leading the projects Collecting Data for a History of the Institute of Musicology at Vienna University, 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.

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