Thomas Schmidt#
| 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
