Klaus Pietschmann

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Klaus Pietschmann (born in 1972) is a German musicologist. Since 2009 he has been teaching at the University of Mainz.

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Born in Cologne, Pietschmann studied musicology and Medieval studies at the University of Cologne, at the University of Florence and at the University of Münster. In 1997/98 he was at the German Historical Institute in Rome and received his habilitation in 2000 with a thesis on Church music between tradition and reform. The Papal Chapel and its repertoire under Pope Paul III . Subsequently, he worked until 2003 in the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Cologne in a research project on DFG-Opernprojekt  [ de ]. From 2003 to 2006 he was assistant to Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen and Laurenz Lütteken at the University of Zurich, where he also received his habilitation. From 2006 to 2009 he held assistant and guest professorships at the University of Bern and the University of Graz. In 2009 he was appointed to the Institute for Musicology at the University of Mainz.

Pietschmann is deputy director of mainzed, the Mainz Center for Digitality in the Humanities and Cultural Studies. [1]

In 2008, he received the Preis für Geisteswissenschaften der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen  [ de ].

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