Thomas Schmidt#


Thomas Schmidt-Beste
Membership Number:2625
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY
Elected:2009
Main Country of Residence:UNITED KINGDOM
Homepage(s):https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/thomas-schmidt




Present and Previous Positions

  • Current appointment: Honorary Professor, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester
  • 2017 - 2021 Dean of Music, Humanities and Media and Professor of Musicology, University of Huddersfield/UK
  • 2012 - 2017 Professor of Music, University of Manchester, UK
  • 2005 - 2012 Professor and Head of Music, Bangor University, Wales/UK
  • 2002 - 2005 DFG Heisenberg Senior Research Fellow, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2001 Habilitation, Musicology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • 1998 - 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
  • 1995 - 2002 Research Associate, Heidelberg Academy of Arts and Sciences, Germany
  • 1995 PhD, Musicology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Fields of Scholarship
  • Music before 1600 (music and text, music and Humanism, music theory, historiography, source studies)
  • Instrumental music of the late 18th and 19th centuries (Mendelssohn and Mozart in particular)
  • Musical editing, music philology
  • History of musical genres (motet, string quintet, sonata)

Honours and Awards
  • 2008: Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
  • 2009: member of the Academia Europaea


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