A.o. Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Thomas Hochradner
Thomas Hochradner is Head of the Research Focus: Salzburg’s Musical History at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, a position he has held since 2011. His research focuses on music philology, Baroque and church music, Alpine folk music, and the history of musical reception. He is the editor of the Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Johann Joseph Fux (vol. 1, 2016) and co-editor of Silent Night: The Book of the Song (2018).
Thomas Hochradner was co-founder of the Institute for the History of Musical Reception and Interpretation, which he directed from 2006 to 2011 and of which he remains a member. From 2014 to 2021, he also served as Head of the Department of Musicology at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
His teaching and research cover music history from the 17th to the 20th century, with particular emphasis on music philology, Baroque and church music, reception history, Salzburg’s musical heritage, and folk music research.
Hochradner has edited numerous conference proceedings, including The Monk of Salzburg in the Interpretation Profile of the Present (with Siegrid Schmidt, 2021), Paths to Silent Night: On the Pre- and Post-History of a “Simple Composition” (2021), and Leopold Mozart: Chronicler and Pioneer (with Michaela Schwarzbauer, 2022).
He has organised more than twenty academic symposia, among them the 16th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, which he chaired. He also serves on a number of editorial boards.