Michael Fend

Michael Fend is a researcher in the School of Humanities, specializing in the intellectual and political history of music, with a focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. His work intersects with opera, nationalism, music and law, and the historiography of music.

Research Interests:

• Early modern music theory and aesthetics
• Composers under revolutionary regimes (e.g., Luigi Cherubini)
• Dramaturgical and institutional analysis of opera
• Philosophy of music and Adorno's theories
• Beethoven's early works and reception

Research Projects:

• Music, Culture, and Politics in early nineteenth-century Europe (2009–2010)
• Debussy's Exoticism (2008)
• Rousseau's morality of musical imitation (2004)

Supervision: PhD projects on musical culture and aesthetics in France and Germany around 1800, and Wagner studies.