- Music History (18th Century)
- Sound Heritage and Material Culture
- Music Arrangements (1750-1830)
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Professor Wiebke Thormählen is Director of Research and Strategic Lead for Research, Research Degrees and Knowledge Exchange at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM). As a historian and violinist, she explores music as a social and cultural activity at the intersection of domestic and public music-making, with particular interest in arrangements of large-scale works for small-scale performance, domestic devotional music, and audience engagement with opera across historical periods. Her research spans three historical moments: music moving between home and public spaces around 1800; institutionalization of professional music engagement around 1900; and contemporary use of sound in museum and heritage contexts. She draws on methodologies from the history of emotions, medical history, material history, and practice-based research. Professor Thormählen's scholarly work reveals significant trends across musicology, heritage studies, and education. Her publications demonstrate a consistent focus on the relationship between music, space, and identity formation, with particular emphasis on how musical practices shape and are shaped by social contexts. Her recent work increasingly intersects with digital humanities through projects like the 'Domestic Dance in Georgian Britain' database. Co-investigator on AHRC-funded project 'Music, Home and Heritage: Sounding the Domestic in Georgian Britain' (2017-2022) Steering Group Member, Sound Heritage Network (University of Southampton) Steering Group Member, Music, Medicine and History Network Core Member, Digital Humanities and Sensory Heritage Network (TORCH, Oxford University) As an educator, Professor Thormählen supervises PhD students in Sound Heritage, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and social history of the conservatoire. She has received research funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Wellcome Trust, and Austrian Academic Exchange Service. Her extensive performance experience with period instrument ensembles in the US, Netherlands, and UK informs her research and teaching approach, which emphasizes tangible properties of musical materials and their interactive potential.







