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Laura-Maxine Kalbow is an Affiliated Researcher and Alumna in Historical Musicology at the University of Hamburg’s Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC). She holds a PhD in Musicology (2024) on Alexander Zemlinsky’s conducting style of Wagner’s Parsifal. Currently, she leads the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA) project on Performance Practice of Viennese Modernism and previously worked on the reception of Wagner’s operas in Prague (1888–1938).
Education: MA in Historical Musicology and French Literature from Universität Hamburg and Sorbonne Université Paris. Research focuses on performance practices, paleographic analysis of musical annotations, and 19th–20th century music theater. Active in presenting on topics like conducting’s academicization and collaborative practices in early 20th-century Vienna.
Projects include leading RFD19 (UWA) and contributing to RFD12 (handwritten layers of operatic practices). Affiliated with CSMC and UWA, her work bridges musicology with manuscript studies, emphasizing material traces of performance.
