Morten Grage, MA
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Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA) (2019–2025)
- 2024–2025: Principal Investigator of RFD20:
‘Materializing the Immaterial. Traces of the Affective Voice in Performance Documents of Early Music ca. 1900–1950’
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Morten Grage studied musicology and history at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and at the Università degli Studi di Pavia/Cremona, Italy. From 2020 to 2024 he was a Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 948 “Heroes – Heroizations – Heroisms” at the Universität Freiburg in the Project S4 “Ästhetiken der Affizierung” (Aesthetics of Affection). In 2024 he completed his PhD in Musicology at the University of Music Karlsruhe with a dissertation on the subject of the heroic opera and the operatic hero around 1850. He is currently a member of UWA and leads the pilot project “Materializing the Immaterial. Traces of the Affective Voice in Performance Documents of Early Music ca. 1900–1950”.
His main research interests are: the (cultural) history and sociology of music in the 17th, 19th and early 20th century, especially in music theatre / opera, the history of singing and performance practice and the historicity of emotions and affect.