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 Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, ACDH-CH). She is also a member of the Executive Commission of the Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe von Denkmälern der Tonkunst in Österreich, the Presidium of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft 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 Data Collection for a History of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna, Catalogue of the Music Archive of the Benedictine Abbey of Göttweig, Music at the Courts of the House of Habsburg and Music at the Metropolitan and Cathedral Church of St. Stephen in Vienna within the research unit Musicology.
Publications
Lectures
Hilscher, Elisabeth (13.10.2022) Kulturelles Erbe - ein alter Begriff neu "erfunden"?. Posterpräsentation bei: CH-Workshop Standortbestimmung Kulturelles Erbe: Herausforderungen und Potentiale (ACDH.CH), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Hilscher, Elisabeth (11.10.2022) Zwischen Himmel und Hölle. Kardinaltugenden und Todsünden in Wiener Oratorientexten des 18. Jahrhunderts. Vortrag bei: Love and Virtue in Musico-Dramatic Works, ca. 1660-1800. 56th International Musicological Colloquium Brno (Institut für Musikwissenschaft der Masaryk-Universität Brünn), Brünn/CZECH REPUBLIC.
Hilscher, Elisabeth (17.09.2022) Die Inszenierung der Inszenierung. Zu Repräsentation und Zeremoniell vor und nach den großen Opernaufführungen am Wiener Hof. Vortrag bei: Le forme dell`opera italiana del 18° secolo nei diversi paesi della regione transalpina (Institut for Art History, Chech Academy of Sciences, Centrum barockné kulturny, Cesky Krumlov), Cesky Krumlov/CZECH REPUBLIC.
Elisabeth Hilscher, Matthias Guschelbauer (14.10.2021) Das Alte Musikarchiv von St. Stephan - neue Perspektiven auf alte Noten. Vortrag bei: Vorträge in der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Musik (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musik), Wien/AUSTRIA <http://www.oegm.org/event/vortrag-24/>.
Hilscher, Elisabeth (12.10.2021) Bedrohtes Erbe - Kirchen- und Klostermusikarchive heute. Vortrag bei: Keeping the Music alive. Preserving Musical Manuscripts (55. International Musicological Colloquium, Masaryk University Brno), Brno/CZECH REPUBLIC <https://music.phil.muni.cz/mmk/en>.
Hilscher, Elisabeth (22.09.2021) Feste und Feiern am Stephansdom. Vortrag bei: Spezialkurs Der Stephansdom. Theologische Kurse (Theologische Kurse), Wien/AUSTRIA <https://www.theologischekurse.at/dl/qOskJKJKOnKJqx4KJK/Folder_SpK_WIEN_21-22_36_Seiten_v21_postFINAL_Web_eMail.pdf>.