... holds a doctorate from the University of Vienna. He is appointed professor for musicology at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK). There he is deputy director of the Centre for Science and Research and heads the competence centre "Film | Film Music". He also serves as a member of the Senate. At MUK he is currently leading the project "Austro-German Melodrama and Its Film Music" (FWF 34466).
At the ACDH-CH, Stefan Schmidl is part of the research unit Musicology. He is working on the history of cinematic reception of cultural heritage, including a project on the film music of Johannes Fehring. Results of this work have appeared in numerous monographs. Furthermore, he is editor of the series "Filmmusik in historisch-kritischen Editionen".
Publications
Lectures
Schmidl, Stefan (04.06.2013) Saison in Salzburg (1938): Die 'schönste Stadt Deutschlands' in Fred Raymonds Operette. Vortrag bei: Operette 1938 – Angeschlossen und missbraucht (Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Schmidl, Stefan (24.05.2013) Sozialer Motor. Urbane Musik als Wirtschafts- und Identitätsmedium. Vortrag bei: Re-thinking Europe. Creative Regions, (Universität Salzburg), Triest/ITALY.
Schmidl, Stefan (22.01.2013) Experiment, Ritual, Agitation. Aspekte sowjetischer Symphonik um 1930. Vortrag bei: Die Handgranate eines Anarchisten – Dimitri Schostakowitsch und die Musik um 1930 (Hochschule Luzern), Luzern/SWITZERLAND.
Schmidl, Stefan (18.01.2013) Designing Brands of the National. Musical Allegories and their Ingredients. Vortrag bei: The National Element in Music. (Universität Athen), Athen/GREECE.
Schmidl, Stefan (22.11.2012) Hear your country. Nationale Allegorese in der symphonischen Musik. Vortrag bei: Jour fixe Kulturwissenschaften (ÖAW, IKT), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Schmidl, Stefan (20.11.2012) Space Opera: A Genre Of New Hollywood. Vortrag bei: Opera and Cinema: The Politics of an Encounter (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Lissabon/PORTUGAL.