Laura-Maxine Kalbow, MA

Projects

Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA) (2019–2025)

• 2024–2025: Project Lead RFD19:
  Performance Practice of Viennese Modernism – Collaboration in Composing and Conducting at the Turn of the Century
• 2020–2023: Research Associate on project RFD12:
  Handwritten Layers of Operatic Practices – The Reception of Richard Wagner at the Neue Deutsche Theater in Prague (1888–1938)

Dissertation Project

• Handwritten layers of operatic practices – The reception of Richard Wagner at the Neue Deutsche Theater in Prague (1888–1938)

CV

Laura-Maxine Kalbow studied Historical Musicology and French Literature at Universität Hamburg and Sorbonne Université Paris. From 2020 to 2024, she was a Research Associate at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ in the project ‘Handwritten Layers of Operatic Practices – The Reception of Richard Wagner at the Neue Deutsche Theater in Prague (1888–1938)’ (RFD12). In 2024, she completed her PhD in Musicology on the subject of Alexander Zemlinsky’s performance style as a conductor (Title: ‘Der erste lebende Dirigent’: Alexander Zemlinsky interpretiert Richard Wagner’s Parsifal am Neuen Deutschen Theater in Prag). She is currently a member of  UWA and project lead of ‘Performance Practice of Viennese Modernism – Collaboration in Composing and Conducting at the Turn of the Century’.

Her main research interests are: Performance and Sound Studies; historical performance materials and the paleographic analysis of annotations; music theater in the 19th and 20th centuries; and French music in the 17th century.