Prof.in Dr.in Andrea Horz, MA
Subjects
Professor of Music & Society
Biography
Andrea Horz has been Professor of Music and Society at Stella Vorarlberg Privathochschule für Musik since October 2024. Her research focuses on how music gains cultural presence and becomes embedded in various social, media, and institutional contexts. She combines perspectives from music history, cultural studies, and sociology, focusing in particular on musical spaces, the popularization of music, processes of musical recording, and issues of cultural infrastructure.
After earning her diploma in music education at the Nuremberg University of Music, she studied musicology, philosophy, and medieval German studies in Erlangen and Vienna. After earning her master’s degree, she received a three-year fellowship at the University of Freiburg, where she also served as a lecturer. From 2010 to 2013, she completed her doctoral studies at the University of Vienna; from 2011 to 2015, she worked there as a research assistant. Her dissertation on Heinrich Glarean’s Dodekachordon was awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna.
From 2015 to 2018, Andrea Horz held the Hertha Firnberg Chair, and from 2018 to 2022, the Elise Richter Chair at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. There, she completed her habilitation in 2023 with the thesis Operas as Objects of Musical Analysis in 18th-Century German-Language Journalism. In the 2023–24 academic year, she served as a visiting professor in the Department of Musicology at Philipps University of Marburg. She is co-editor of the Journal of the Society for Music Theory.
At Stella, she is further developing the research field of Music and Society with a particular focus on cultural infrastructure, regional music history, and the social impact of music.
Affiliated Individuals
Student Assistant
Annachiara Seitlinger, B.A.
(Administrative Assistant and Project: The Schaumburg Music Library in Stade)
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Student Assistant
Andrei Denisenko, B.A.
(Project: The Bregenz Festival as Cultural Infrastructure)
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Current Research Projects
Bregenzer Festspiele as Cultural Infrastructure
examines the Bregenzer Festspiele as a cultural institution and infrastructure since 1946. The project focuses on the question of how music festival initiatives not only produce artistic programs but also transform material, institutional, social, and symbolic infrastructures. In doing so, the project combines perspectives from music history, cultural studies, and the social sciences. Particular emphasis is placed on regional roots, public engagement, and the role of music in the Lake Constance region. The project is part of the ongoing expansion of the Music and Society research field at Stella.
Collaborative Project (University of Freiburg):
The Schaumburg Music Lending Institute in Stade
This research project focuses on the unique collection of the Schaumburg Music Lending Institute in Stade, which, as a nearly complete corpus, offers an exceptional source for studying musical education, reception, and distribution in the 19th century. At the same time, the collection encourages a re-examination of 19th-century music historiography with a focus on lesser-known but once-popular composers and repertoires.
The project combines archival work, the cataloging of digitized sources, and historical music culture research, and is being carried out as a collaborative project with Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Fischer and the Center for Popular Culture and Music at the University of Freiburg.