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Bettina Varwig is a music historian specializing in early modern European music, particularly German compositions from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Her work explores cultural exchange, secularization, historical modes of music analysis, and reception studies.
- Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University
- Bachelor of Music, King's College London
Her research spans topics like Johann Sebastian Bach’s reception in the twenty-first century, the intersection of metaphors of time and modernity in Bach’s works, and the role of rhetoric in Heinrich Schütz’s compositions. She has also analyzed cantatas, such as BWV 82, through the lens of death and life in Baroque religious practices.
Varwig has led two major projects: EMMP (An Early Modern Musical Physiology) (2017–2022) and BACH21 (2013–2018), both focusing on Bach and early modern music. Her publications include a monograph, Histories of Heinrich Schütz, and peer-reviewed articles in journals like Journal of the Royal Musical Association and Music and Letters.
She has received significant recognition, including:
- AMS Publication Subvention (2011)
- Jerome Roche Prize (2013)
- Music & Letters Westrup Prize (2009)
- William H. Scheide Prize (2016)
Varwig contributes to academic communities as an editorial board member of Eighteenth-Century Music and a member of the Bach Network UK Advisory Board.
