Univ.-Ass. Mag. Dr.
Bernadeta Czapraga
Bakk.art
Bernadeta Czapraga is a musicologist and violinist who has been a university assistant at the Mozarteum since 2014. Her research focuses on Mozart interpretation, performance practice, and the relationship between music, identity, and reception.
Bernadeta Czapraga studied violin performance and subsequently completed a postgraduate degree in violin and instrumental pedagogy at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. She earned her doctorate in musicology in 2012 with distinction. Alongside her doctoral studies, she specialised in Baroque violin at the Anton Bruckner Private University.
Her dissertation, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s Violin Concerto in A major, K. 219, in Selected Interpretations (Bärenreiter, 2017), was awarded the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research’s “Award of Excellence” for the best musicology dissertation of 2013.
Since 2014, she has been a university assistant at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. In 2023, she joined the Research Focus “Music and Power – Dimensions and Contexts” (German only). Since 2024, she has been working on her habilitation project on string chamber music and Polish identity in the works of Grażyna Bacewicz.
Current research and teaching interests include
- Mozart research
- Interpretation research and analysis
- Reception research
- Musical analysis
- Performance practice
- Arrangements
- Biographical research